Nervous chatter. ?Sugar and caffeine fueled questions. Gear discussions. ?”What pressure should I run?” ?”Where are we going?” WHIRRRRRRWHIRRRRRRWHIRRRRRWHIRRRRWHIRRR “LEFT” – “BRANCH!” “OK. ?We’ll start here. ?Take this section like this. ?Hop off here. ?Barriers there. ?We’ll start with 2 warmup laps then we’ll go race pace for 40 minutes. ?Questions? Riders ready….GO!” The pain …
Image By Chris Chuck Norris doing $2 Fat Tire handups. This is cross. HUGE thanks go out to SCW, Mr. Kelly, and the fine folks at Indian lakes Resort for the 24 hr party someone called a cyclocross race. I can’t even begin to tell you how much fun I had. I have basically been …
Busy doesn’t even begin to describe how everything is. I skipped the cross race in Northbrook. A lot of things went into that decision. It looked like Northbrook didn’t want to have the race, the course wasn’t going to incorporate some of the cool features it had last year, there were tons of “rules” about …
As we set up the course on Saturday my main thought was, “man….I hope some of this at least drains out between today and tomorrow.” It didn’t. The fact that it rained like oh….97% of the days in October, enough to make the fragile cheese-heads cancel a couple of races – due to environmental concerns…, …
New web site is up and running. Check it out – www.psimet.com Big thanks go out to Tim Speciale for all the work and Runner Susan for the masthead/banner. Our cross race is this weekend. Campton Cross. We did a sor tof bandit cross last night. I had fun. Cross Mojo is coming back. I …
It was like mortar. Not the tube like things you fire exploding shells from but the stuff you use to hold blocks together with in order to create a building. The grass and mud lattice that we mixed together was working perfectly at filling every single open space and hardening in place. Unfortunately…we didn’t want …
Something is rotten in Denmark. I am not feeling at one with the cross zen this season. I have found I am not alone either. It just isn’t as much fun this year. Polling friends I have broken it down into the following possible causes:1. The courses have gotten kind of silly. They are just …
Finally getting around to throwing down some wheel bling. Jason Senffner rode some PSIMET 50mm carbon clinchers to victory in the State Road Race. Before the start – the compeittion checking out the wheels. Jason Senffner – Illinois State Road Race Champion and Illinois Cup Winner – Masters 35+ 4/5 Congrats Jason. I’m thinking it …
Too much to cover and a lot of work to do today. We finally got our chance for cake during the last crit of Fall Fling. In the end, when you’re a cat 4, cake is all that matters. We went into the last crit with a formidable team. The fact that it was the …
