Check Please
More weather in the 801. Yesterday was pretty much perfect for the ‘cross race at Ft. Jesse Ventura. Mud, lots of mud. I did a few hot laps as a warmup with low pressure, I was hooking up pretty well in the slime but on the rocky dirt road I tapped my rims a few times, not good since I was not even at race pace. So I pumped them up to my normal 50psi. No pinches but not as much hookup either.
I got a good start for a change and was soon locked in a battle for 3rd with John Gallagher. We spent the next 25-30 minutes testing and looking for any weakness. He was riding the chicanes in the trees well and I seemed to have a good line on the big sweeper before the road. Other than that it seemed we were pretty evenly matched.
Somewhere around the 40 minute mark I went down in the tree section, again landing hard on my bad wrist. At this point I am ashamed to say I checked out mentally. I hate that. I need to get over it. My wrist hurts when I race, deal with it. It hurts a lot more when I fall on it, don’t fall on it. Congrats to Ali G for the W yesterday. Dude goes for it everytime I wish I could be there today to race and see if Bart Mang can bounce back. Gallagher rode really smart yesterday. In conditions like that it comes down to who makes the least amount of mistakes, he rode very well. I cant wait to race in Kentucky next weekend. I always like going to new places and seeing what the ‘cross scene is like. Also I am hoping to meet someone named Cletus.
