Cyclocross Racing - CX Race Photos

suffering like nothing else.

http://www.cyclingcaptured.com/2010-Cycling/Cyclocross/C3x-Day-1-1100/2010-CharmCity0825/1014803814_jiZ3x-L.jpg


http://www.cyclingcaptured.com/2010-Cycling/Cyclocross/C3x-Day-1-1100/2010-CharmCity0912/1014857441_q6U7G-L.jpg

Did you crash? Your knee looks a little banged up.

I ran into a pot hole in a field racing to the start line less than a minute before the start of the race. I flipped over at around 20 mph landing shifters first. I destroyed the bar, actually crumpled it in the stem. The diameter was less than 31.8 so I had to find someone with an allen key all with less than a minute to go. Barely got the line before it started.

It hurt a lot more yesterday and today.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs321.ash2/60172_429824782061_508567061_5555039_7900048_n.jpg
c mens race, sept 11th, nittany lion cross @ t-town velodrome

Pictures from USGP Sun Prairie (Saturday, 9-25) are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/t-miller/collections/72157618729450666/

I shot the masters, a few of the pro women, and a lot of the pro men.

Jeremy Powers - won on Saturday:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5026812545_2461aec3fd_z.jpg

And Tim Johnson - 2nd on Saturday and won on Sunday:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5026798409_7af11133cc_z.jpg

tmiller: Great shots in the rest of your flickr set, too!
I'm guessing around 15mm or 21mm lens?
I'll have to dig out my wides now.

Pain from my first cross race:

My last lap in NEOX- #3- B race. I crashed hard 20 seconds into the race when someone hit my back wheel while making high speed zig-zag. By the time I got myself together, bar straightened, shifters straight and working, and worked the chain back past the "chain keeper" I spotted the Men 2 minutes and the Open Women one minute. All I could do was chase for 45 minutes and pick off one rider at a time. I have not seen final results yet, but I believe I caught all the women except for the 3 on the podium and caught about a 1/3 of the 50 men in the B race.

The guy behind me in the picture followed my wheel the entire 1.9 mile last lap. He is too much of a sportsman to pass me while I'm racing. He was warming up for the A race. Notice the National Champ bars on his sleeve.

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr256/sru75/61961_441565952760_590477760_5149533_1636360_n.jpg

Ed Sander Memorial

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj86/dolphinsnats/moarsuffer.jpg

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Nice mud pit and water hazard today for my first race.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5045286273_6ca34db622.jpg

Glad I finally got to ride, hope I can find an action pic at some point.
Here are pics of some of the action:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5045285507_f95106ab28.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5045282563_fa21f00289_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5045296875_15e9027a87_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5045932538_3454417262_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5045927706_744becaa50_z.jpg


http://www.flickr.com/photos/54567462@N08/504
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54567462@N08/5045296875/http://www.flickr.com/photos/54567462@N08/5045927706/in/photostream/http://www.flickr.com/photos/54567462@N08/5045932538/in/photostream/

That's muddy, alright.

I need different shoes for muddy and wet cross. Every time I hit that and the deep water puddle my shoes filled up and I had my whole toes submerged for the rest of the lap.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5045312299_cfb0418fbd_z.jpg

A couple of shots of me at Alpenrose:

Demonstrating my perfect form on the barriers...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5049915138_a97648e049_z.jpg

..and relentlessly pursuing my prey in the velodrome...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5049915040_d1ae2c9a6d_z.jpg

Looks like the two judges are writing down your style points.
How fast does one have to go to stay up on that high velodrome bank?

How fast does one have to go to stay up on that high velodrome bank?

I wouldn't know. Faster than I've gone, I can tell you that.

I envy the mud you got to race in. We had that last week. This week was just enough spritz of a rain to make the grass and pavement slick.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs680.snc4/62025_434054352061_508567061_5644534_523027_n.jpg
whirlybird cyclocross, bryn athyn PA photo:eileen veight

I made it onto PDXCross.com (http://pdxcross.squarespace.com/galleries/cross-crusade-back-at-alpenrose-dairy/7050116)! (This is actually my second appearance in their awesome pictures, but it's always exciting.)

Pic of me this weekend in KC. Solid effort, mediocre result. God, I love it.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MM9zjVqNHmU/TKofZSJj3bI/AAAAAAAAAd4/NoNRMH_IWms/s800/bc2-1.jpg

You don't look so fat to me fatroadie. :)

thenomad: "I need different shoes for muddy and wet cross. Every time I hit that and the deep water puddle my shoes filled up and I had my whole toes submerged for the rest of the lap."


i wear 'sandals'...solved THAT issue for me!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs680.snc4/62025_434054352061_508567061_5644534_523027_n.jpg
whirlybird cyclocross, bryn athyn PA photo:eileen veight

nice kenny....where's the skeleton jersey? glad you got an early start to the season....Granogue is probably my first in a couple of weeks

You don't look so fat to me fatroadie. :)

Thanks! I lost a bunch of weight and haven't bothered asking for a username change.

Here's a few shots from my Kross-toberfest CX4 DFL

Me chugging uphill
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Kross-toberfest_Uphill.jpg

Me thru the mud
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Kross-toberfest_Mudpit.jpg

Me contemplating the runup
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Kross-toberfest_Runup.jpg

Bike after race
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/HPIM8516.JPG

Legs after race
http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/HPIM8517.JPG

Nice bike. Did you have family taking pics of you? I was hoping to find a shot of me to commemorate my first race.

I remember passing you on the back stretch by the lake and you asked me if I was behind you or something? My brain didn't have enough blood to process that request :)
It was the last lap and I had thought the previous lap was going to be my last so I was getting burnt. My drivetrain was popping as well which had my attention.
Hope to make it to Spooky Cross if I can convince my wife. Sounds like that'd be fun to do a night race.

nomad
A friend was there and took a few shots of me. He raced 45+.
I was trying to ask you if anyone was behind you. I tried to catch you and unlap myself; but couldn't pull it off.
I didn't want to be lapped by the entire field; turns out all but one did.

Spooky Cross is my wife's B-day so I'm really iffy for that. She's making me go to a quilt guild silent auction and tea from 1-5.
If spooky is really at 8; that quilt event should get me enough points to get out. :thumb:

Strictly speaking, this is a post-race photo, but it sums up my day perfectly. :(

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5069670632_a1453210bc_z.jpg (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5069670632_a1453210bc_b.jpg)

nice kenny....where's the skeleton jersey? glad you got an early start to the season....Granogue is probably my first in a couple of weeks
thanks, yeah ive got 3 races under my belt so far before granogue, but im only racing sunday down there

thanks, yeah ive got 3 races under my belt so far before granogue, but im only racing sunday down there

well, i plan on doing both or just sunday.....i'm a bit late to the circuits, but haven't had my steel steed ready until last week. trying to cram in some practice rides along the other side of the Brandywine. floods got them really sloppy and fun

Strictly speaking, this is a post-race photo, but it sums up my day perfectly. :(


whoa, is that from a wheel in your rear? Sorry to see that. I'll check your other thread.
Yikes.

Heiser Farms, Dayton OR...first CX race ever, had a blast


http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u305/wayoutwest2/DSC_1643.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u305/wayoutwest2/DSC_1686.jpg

found a photo from 9/18's charm city race
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/upperclasstwit42/24557949-DSC_0267-20100918_09-33DSC_0267.jpg

Heiser Farm 2008 was my first race. That's a fun course. I hear the mud was outrageous.

Raced the first race of the "Cross The Way" series here in Tennessee. I finished first in both the Cat-4's and Single Speed Class! It was an awesome course! Pretty dry conditions but a lot of climbing and descending. The promoters are also really awesome!

Running the barriers during the 4's race
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs820.snc4/68083_165556973455871_100000047082215_528031_7531095_n.jpg

All the racers in the Single Speed class agreed to drink a beer between every lap
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs415.ash2/69300_482082349187_726749187_6970925_65571_n.jpg

Riding it out to the finish of the Single Speed race
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs794.snc4/67399_165558820122353_100000047082215_528050_4620541_n.jpg

Podium Shot for the CX4's
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs801.snc4/68150_165557016789200_100000047082215_528032_6345720_n.jpg

After race beers with another podium finisher in the Single Speed class
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs402.ash2/68013_165557190122516_100000047082215_528036_1550972_n.jpg

BikePortland (http://www.bikeportland.org)'s Jonathan Maus got a nice shot of me yesterday at Rainier before my derailleur exploded.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5071614307_62feaa7d32_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bikeportland/5071614307/in/set-72157625141824926/)

This is just past the top of the worst hill. For some reason, I thought I was doing OK on the steep part of the climb, but I hadn't saved anything for the smaller climb that immediately followed. At the moment this picture was taken, I was simultaneously making a futile attempt to reposition the brake lever that got dislodged when I crashed earlier in the lap and seriously considering dropping out of the race due to lack of fitness. Within 10 minutes of this picture being taken, I was out of the race with a DNF, as pictured in my previous post.

It's entirely possible that this picture captures the exact moment of the highest heart rate I've ever produced.

From this past Sunday, Cobbs Hill in Rochester, NY. This was a gnarly course with some scary single track and this crazy run up that had a barrier at the base and when you got to the top you still had to jump on a ride up more hill, only to turn around and hit half a dozen off camber switchbacks on the way back down.

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu85/drummer5usa/cobbshill.jpg?t=1286913530

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/emosubaru/24605710--cclayedit.jpg
first ever race. first ever ride on mud.

photo by dennis crane


and some shots i took last month at star crossed:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/emosubaru/20100918-20100918-DSC_4778.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/emosubaru/20100918-20100918-DSC_5040.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/emosubaru/20100918-20100918-DSC_5061.jpg
dudes killin it!

Blurrrrry CX photo's from Utah...

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs006.ash2/33654_10150099825928378_797308377_7459077_5666191_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs411.ash2/68976_10150099825958378_797308377_7459078_1665793_n.jpg

Hot, dry, bumpy and dusty in Covington KY on Oct 8th.

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr256/sru75/IMG_2103.jpg

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http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/upperclasstwit42/24692278-DSC_0134.jpg

me (center) at Starcrossed a couple of weeks back.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5016241798_2f8f0b1d38_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmabale/5016241798/in/set-72157609845391271/)
from flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmabale/5016241798/in/set-72157609845391271/)

Thanks to my friend Grace for taking the pic.

You guys need to stop posting pictures of CX racers off their bikes because of small planks or logs. The mountain bikers are going to laugh at us. ;)

You guys need to stop posting pictures of CX racers off there bikes because of small planks or logs. The mountain bikers are going to laugh at us. ;)

Look like stairs to me.

Look like stairs to me.

Roadie. :p

From earlier today, Syracuse, NY.

Photos taken by teammate Jamie Young.

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu85/drummer5usa/syrGP2010-2.jpg

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu85/drummer5usa/syrGP2010-1.jpg

After race beers with another podium finisher in the Single Speed class
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs402.ash2/68013_165557190122516_100000047082215_528036_1550972_n.jpg

What's up James Deane.

Here is a picture of me from this morning at my first cross race.

http://milliron.org/hosted/basps1--173160.jpg

Yup, looking down at my pedals like the noob I am.

Two cool pics of me this weekend, first from my dad and 2nd from Roger Harrison, aka Lantern Rouge.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MM9zjVqNHmU/TLuaw1s806I/AAAAAAAAAig/Ryc4YsF5M2g/s720/DSC_0170.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_MM9zjVqNHmU/TLxa6YREIGI/AAAAAAAAAig/YS3NF4xt2hM/s720/sand.jpg

me sprinting and yelling at my friend taking the picture at the finish at granogue day 2
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs906.snc4/71924_440889677061_508567061_5776973_8382444_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs464.ash2/73772_440892492061_508567061_5776981_4702684_n.jpg

and up the zig-zag run up of doom
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs444.ash2/71737_440892562061_508567061_5776983_1778661_n.jpg

Me sucking wind at Granogue, Day 2, C race:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryandudek/5091057029/in/set-72157625061598219/

photo phail

me sprinting and yelling at my friend taking the picture at the finish at granogue day 2
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs906.snc4/71924_440889677061_508567061_5776973_8382444_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs464.ash2/73772_440892492061_508567061_5776981_4702684_n.jpg

and up the zig-zag run up of doom



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yeah, kenny, i figured they would have gotten a good shot of you finally catching me and then blowing past on that asphalt flat! i swear, you did whoosh by pretty nicely...:p