Ugh, SCC#2 The Dawgs are Barkin!
Today was the second Seattle Cyclocross Series race at Evergreen HS in White Center. The course was a schmorgisboard of grass, dirt, sand, singletrack, barriers, run-ups, and off camber technical sections. It had a little something for everyone. The folks at SCC dont like to discriminate. Last year this race was bombarded by a wet and dirty start. Not the case this year as the thermometer tipped 66F or 292.04 Kelvin for those of you are into chemistry like me. How baller is that! As we lined up at the start, local jokester and good friend of mine Derik Andrioli tried to pass me after the call-ups before the race even started. I knew what he was up to so I had to chop him before he got around me. I almost ended his racing carreer right then and there...that guy better watch out from now on.
Pow! (gun sound) and were off to circle the running track and then onto a grassy up-hill turn. Strangely enough there were no catastrophic wrecks in the first fer corners. So we cruised through some flat and grassy corners, snaked around a baseball field that I once hit a homerun on when I was like 13, and on to the first run-up. It was short and easy, I didnt even have to shoulder the bike. There is too much traffic at this point so when we get to the big run-up I decided to let my Kenyan roots show and bound up the sandy hill like a gazelle. I think I took the whole thing in like three strides. The rest of the first lap was mostly grassy turns and a couple of off camber downhill corners. The hardest part of the race was in the first quarter of the lap, the rest was just pure fun. I really dont know why more people aren't more sado-massacistic as we cyclocross racers. It's actually a really good time!
So on lap 3, not unlike the Huskies an Saturday night vs. ASU, the perverbial bottom dropped out. I quickly found out that I went out the gates way too hard and on the flat fast sections all I could do is try and recover. Oops! Having been sick all week and not touching the bike untill Saturday afternoon I may have wanted to think that through a little better.
New goal, dont let Andrioli (Joe Bar) catch up to me. I think he would have tried to crash me out. That guy, he's crafty. By the way Im watching the seakawks get obliterated right now as Im writing this and im getting pretty pissed off. Reggie Bush is killing us. Not that I care about any other sports other than cycling. Those guys cant even test positive for the steroids that their on. Ha. If you can't do that, what can you do?
So long story short I finished somewhere in the top 30 or 40, who really cares, but I had a blast and you could too if you got off your butt and came out and RACED YOUR BIKE! (Mercedeszzzzzah). BNW's F Joe Hambo had a good race again taking 10th despite stoping half way into the race to give a dying squirrell a prolonged beard rub, virtually saving its little furry life. And they gave the Nobel Prize to Al Gore for all that global warming crap he does. Ha. What has this country come to?
Other notable performances of the day include Adrian Hegevary, riding to the race from Redmond on his fixed gear cross bike that weighs 30+ lbs. and then passed me with ease durring the race. Also young speedster Benny of Rad Racing actually winning the race! Which is really the best out of all those.
See yall next week!
Nick B. (The Former-Milk Scientist)
Pow! (gun sound) and were off to circle the running track and then onto a grassy up-hill turn. Strangely enough there were no catastrophic wrecks in the first fer corners. So we cruised through some flat and grassy corners, snaked around a baseball field that I once hit a homerun on when I was like 13, and on to the first run-up. It was short and easy, I didnt even have to shoulder the bike. There is too much traffic at this point so when we get to the big run-up I decided to let my Kenyan roots show and bound up the sandy hill like a gazelle. I think I took the whole thing in like three strides. The rest of the first lap was mostly grassy turns and a couple of off camber downhill corners. The hardest part of the race was in the first quarter of the lap, the rest was just pure fun. I really dont know why more people aren't more sado-massacistic as we cyclocross racers. It's actually a really good time! So on lap 3, not unlike the Huskies an Saturday night vs. ASU, the perverbial bottom dropped out. I quickly found out that I went out the gates way too hard and on the flat fast sections all I could do is try and recover. Oops! Having been sick all week and not touching the bike untill Saturday afternoon I may have wanted to think that through a little better.
New goal, dont let Andrioli (Joe Bar) catch up to me. I think he would have tried to crash me out. That guy, he's crafty. By the way Im watching the seakawks get obliterated right now as Im writing this and im getting pretty pissed off. Reggie Bush is killing us. Not that I care about any other sports other than cycling. Those guys cant even test positive for the steroids that their on. Ha. If you can't do that, what can you do?
So long story short I finished somewhere in the top 30 or 40, who really cares, but I had a blast and you could too if you got off your butt and came out and RACED YOUR BIKE! (Mercedeszzzzzah). BNW's F Joe Hambo had a good race again taking 10th despite stoping half way into the race to give a dying squirrell a prolonged beard rub, virtually saving its little furry life. And they gave the Nobel Prize to Al Gore for all that global warming crap he does. Ha. What has this country come to?
Other notable performances of the day include Adrian Hegevary, riding to the race from Redmond on his fixed gear cross bike that weighs 30+ lbs. and then passed me with ease durring the race. Also young speedster Benny of Rad Racing actually winning the race! Which is really the best out of all those.
See yall next week!
Nick B. (The Former-Milk Scientist)
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