John Wilke

I figured. At least my porch roof won't leak anymore.

I remember freezing at that race last year.

Speedster22

Good race today...could have been better result wise, but super fun. Perfect gearing for me today on the SS. Started off great and was picking people off steadily on the 1st lap and a quarter lap into the 2nd my chain bounced off on a bumpy section after leaving one of the paved sections. Doh! Chain wrapped around the BB and kinked a bit. Took a bit to get it back on and now I was DFL. Took the next three laps to chip away 14 riders to ride in for 40th. It hurt. I suffered mentally and physically. Wanted to quit each lap and wanted to puke at the end. A great day indeed!

Best feature of the course was the corkscrew before the 1st set of quadruple barriers. So much fun!

nerobro

well, that wasn't what I expected. The northbrook course was great. Yeah, no hill, which is very lame. But they managed to find room to have a double turn switchback, with enough camber to make most people ride sideways, and enough soul sapping soft field to keep things interesting.

I had fun.

Scummer

Did you ride a white IRO fixie? The jumps into the sand pit were quite a show from the guy riding that bike.

Speedster22

Nope - I raced in Milwaukee's Estabrook Park race - think I'm crazy enough riding SS and high doubt I'd be able to finish with a fixie...well maybe, but it'd be real painful!

Cromulent

The corkscrew/reverse corkscrew plus four barriers at the Estabrook Park race was hilariously fun. I don't think I've ever been dizzy on a bike before.

Speedster22

No dizziness for me.... I must have been going too slow

Cromulent

Oh, I was going slow too. Much not take much to get me dizzy.

John Wilke

Got through my gallon of paint for the day. Do it again tomorrow.

Any race stories?

(oh, PorkChopWi got beaten in the Halloween costume contest by one point. He got beat by a GIRL. )

Porkchopwi

HAHAHA. I'm use to that when it comes to biking.

That course at Kletzsch is fantastic. Loved the fans at the top of the run up, that's CX baby!

I'll have some vid up in the next few days... I think

John Wilke

I read a recon report that they didn't have the usual run up.

Bad recon?

Porkchopwi

Dunno. There was longish hill, barrier at the bottom. Seemed from other told me it's been there in the past

John Wilke

Bad scouting. Same great hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVY5hGyXhB8

John Wilke

Doug Swanson (Grandstay) is the MN state CX champ.

Photos at skinnyski.com (talk about super fans, big crowd on their climb)

Speedster22

It was quite the hill! A decent course I thought. I liked Estabrook better. Maybe because I didn't have the best gearing. Went with a 20 in the back instead of the 18. Absolutely great for the hill sections, but lost a lot of ground on the flats and the long downhills. Ah well. Finished somewhere mid-pack with a big knot on my shin from the first set of barriers. It got all bottlenecked on the start and guy in front of me hit the barrier who I then hit as I was mid hurdle. Oi! Ah well war wound I guess.

I'm asking for gears for Christmas :-)

Scummer

A few selected pix from the Sat. cross
https://gallery.geekazoids.net/main.php?g2_itemId=15196

Porkchopwi

A short doc about CX shot mainly at Kletzsch, but it has some some stuff from far western Wisc. chucked in too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUsyres5NL4

Psimet2001 

I had a F'N BLAST this weekend. Best. Cross. Race. Ever!

I totally sucked, but it was a great course and I had such a great time! Kudos to Mayo.

hipcheck5

1st cross race I have ever been to and it was awesome! I called my wife and said "I need to figure out a way to get a cross bike!" Scummer, I wish I would have known you were there, I would have said hi!

nerobro

Aw, and i'm the favored crosser. :-)

The course at the hilton was great. I didn't imagine a golf course would be quite so hard to pedal over. The rough, really was. I decided to not try riding the sand pits, I took a run before the race and failed miserably.

I'm getting faster. Measurably. I also think flannel mike is getting faster. *shakes fist*

RJBTrek

It was my first cross race and I had a blast!! I've been recovering from an injury since Sept and had 3 rides during that time prior to my race. It showed but still had a blast. It was a great venue. And thanks to the spectators that moved the course tape so there was no somewhat-hard inside corner into the mud pit turn. I never realized until Sat the benefit that a mud pack could have on your complexion. Especially the inside of your ear.

Speedster22

Porkchop - Awesome vid! Looks like it's making its way around facebook too!

Porkchopwi

Speed:
Yeah, I see USA Cycling picked it up. I was pretty shocked by that.

Which cat did you race on Sat?

Speedster22

4's

Wow didn't know USAC picked it too! Nice!

Porkchopwi

Well, we were in the same race.

You weren't te guy I saw pushing his bike along on two knees at the first barrier were you? LOL. I think he was in all black. (I suspect that is the guy that went down in front of you)

Needless to say we were in the same general vicinity at the same time.

Racing state this weekend?