I've been pretty lazy I'm sorry

I've not been on my A game and I have been very busy lately, so I am sorry I haven't given you some blogger love for awhile. But since my last post, about the valmont bike park cross where I had my epic conquest in the Junior race. I have done several races since then. The next day i raced the first Red Rocks Velo Cross race at Tony Grampsas Park at the base of North Table Mountain in Golden. It was about 85 degrees out or so, superr hot for cross. All I have to say about my performance in this race is that I dogged it. This was my first weekend racing 2 60 minute races in a row and after about 15 minutes in the race I started to go backwards after a top 10 start. I just could not handle the heat. I almost dropped out of the race but, I still finished even though I dropped to dead last at one point. I rested for a bit on the last few laps and on the bell lap I made my jump and moved up to 22nd out of 27 giving me like 1 BCR point. This is the first time in a VERY long time I have ever been lapped in a race and this team it was by Danny and Paco who had nothing on me at Interlocken.

The race the next weekend, or should I say last weekend, was the 3rd Boulder CX Series race, at the Boulder Reservoir. It started snowing the morning of the race and became very cold out.

But it wasn't a problem because guess what race I did? SINGLESPEEDS! It actually stopped snowing literally 5 or 10 minutes before my race started, making our race not as epic as the SM4 race. Even though this is one of the most painful races I have ever done, I have to say it is probably the most fun. I ended up taking 2nd in the Single speed race despite having an awesome hole shot at the start of the race. Soon enough on the second lap of this 5 lap race I had dropped to 4th or 5th out of 17. This was mostly due to the fact that we had already caught the SM3 race (or should I say the back of it) because they started only 1 minute ahead of us. I was also running too small of a gear (42 tooth chain ring and 20 tooth cog) with the winner of the race who was only 20 seconds ahead of me using a 18 tooth cog. But this gear was ideal for riding all the brutal sand across the beach, giving me an advantage over guys who ran their machines. But the downside of using a smaller gear is I really got my spin on out on the flat and sometimes downhill road. My guess is I was getting up to at least 160 rpm. Overall it was a good race and I had a great time. I also would have placed 14th in the SM3 race despite starting 1 minute back.

I plan to dominate again tomorrow at the Boulder Cup in the Junior race just like I did at Valmont. All in all I would say my season is going much better than planned and we will see what happens on the 14th of December.