Well kinda…
Its deep in to road season, cross has been over for a while and there was certainly no USCF officials. Good thing since there was maybe one or two bikes that would have been legal. Most people were riding their normal track bikes with 23c slicks. The winner road a carbon mountain bike. A few people had the foresight to put knob’s on their bikes. The course a four mile loop around Randals Island had us wading through a small river, a sand pit, mud, rock pits, more mud, gravel, grass, and even more mud. The top five finished in about an hour with the winning speed averaging out to a blistering 8mph.
My race went like this.
Lap 1: My non-drive side crank arm fell off.
Lap 2: I got lost.
Lap 3: I crashed.
Lap 4: I did everything right passed like 12 people and got 5th. Crihs took 2nd and in my mind 1st since riding a carbon mountain bike was really not the point of this event.
Published by Kym on November 13, 2007
in Events.
This is my favorite alleycat of the whole year!
- get shopping list
- race around the city buying items from various grocery checkpoints
- donate groceries to soup kitchen/shelter at the finish!
Check it. (reposted from Pablo:)
So there it is ya’ll. Don’t be lazy! Come play… whether rookie or vet, mess or not, fun is for everyone.
Next thursday… under the bqe the peel practice sessions get official for one night of competition.
Also, Saturday is the ninth annual Cranksgiving race where we buy food at checkpoints to distribute to the cities poor and needy. This is the first time in the history of this NY race that my ex-coworker Tone has not done it but our very own Ken Stanek has taken up the torch to what looks to be another amazing race… I’m still a little heartbroken over my near win by seconds last year to Yatika so I’m in it to win it this year.
BikeBlog has posted a big list of events for Friday.
Check it out.
