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Yargo Cyclocross

Whew, glad that weekend is behind me now. Being the sole promoter for an event like this is very time-consuming, expensive and stressful. Out of about 100 GTC club members not a single one volunteered to help. Fortunately, my family and a small circle of racing teammates helped and ended up doing every bit of the work ourselves. The 2008 sponsorship offers will be allocated accordingly.

The Masters 35+/45+ raced first and I was still running around the course putting up stakes and barrier tape and had absolutely zero warm-up in fact barely made it to the start line in time. So it took me a couple laps before I could really start racing, by then a 45+ rider had gotten a pretty good gap and I was stuck behind some slow moving 35+ riders waiting to pass.

On the last lap I caught my man and only seconds after I had passed him he totally overcooked a turn, I mean not-even-close, and slammed into me broadside knocking me through the barrier tape, off course and into a picnic table. By the time I got the tape untangled from my rear wheel and got rolling again it was too late. It was a second place finish for me. That's OK because I was the strongest and I'm going to bring it to him next week! From the USAC Rulebook #1O6. No rider may make an abrupt motion so as to interfere with the forward progress of another rider, either intentionally or by accident [relegation or disqualification; possible 20 days suspension if a crash results].

Now that I was finally warmed-up I decided to join the pro/1/2 race just for the extra training miles and to scarf up a few points for the overall series team competition. TC got pinned up and joined me, but we didn't take this too seriously and only really did a couple of hot laps.

Trotting across the beach in the CX1/2 race.

photo: Trish Albert / southeasterncycling.com

Posted by dancoy at October 29, 2007 11:43 AM