Everybody loves a clown...
In a dozen or so years of riding and racing, I have left my home more times that I care to recount in the dark, in steady, driving rains. Each time I have done this a similar thought crosses my mind once I make the venue. What the F-ck was I thinking?
Today was the same.
Enticed with the promise of Happy Meals Buddy and Matt loaded up the toaster with me, and we headed out to the Tour de Tykes. This was an 18 mile point to point race over a lot of technical loamy trails. I will admit that this may have been the most single speed unfriendly course I have ever raced on. The race was brutal. It was constant climb and descend scattered over some really good technical trails, but due to the rain you couldn't carry any momentum and I, like most people, ended up walking up most of the climbs. In the end I probably walked 1/3 or so of the course. That being said, the mud wasn't horrible, just slick and not sticky at all. Hardest part of today was the inability to climb on the bike.
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