Racin' for fun...

With no WCA races on the schedule this weekend, I signed on to help a friend with his Chicago CX Cup race. We rolled down on Saturday to help with course set-up, eat some Chinese food, and watch action movies.

Sunday was "race" day...

wait, what were already lining(ed) up?

Yep, not really and A race for me. Let's see no warm up and got the the start late. I decided to just have fun and ride my bike. Ross had a good start and I had a crappy one, so I sat on some wheels and let him use his engine to pull away. I got onto the wheels of a couple of guys sitting in the top 10 of the Chicago series and thought for sure they would be motivated to do some work resulting in pulling me up to my teammate. Well that never happened, I got onto the wrong wheel on the approach to the hill, he bobbled and we were both gapped. They must not run for training in Chicago, because everyone was complaining about "The Hill"

You rode up the far side , then back down, then ran up the middle, and finally back down. It really wasn't that bad ( I passed 4 guys on the first lap run-up) and it is good practice for this race.

I caught up to another top 10 series guys and stayed on his wheel for a lap or two, and decided I would promote good border relations and told him I wouldn't go for it at the line so he could get his maximum points for the local series. I knew I could take him and really whats the point in sprinting when it is 9th and 10th place? In the end neither Ross or myself really pushed it resulting in Ross finishing 6th, one place out of the money, and me playing nice guy.

"Rock Fist" kind of day.

Its sweet to go out and have a good time without worrying about warming up, starting position, results, or the other racing stuff that sometimes gets in the way of a nice ride in the grass.


Next weekend is game on for round two versus Crusty - "The Beatdown in the Hometown!"