018: fifty seven minutes and twenty one seconds

Went to the Iron Hill Twilight Crit Saturday night. Lots of fun.

C3-Athletes Serving Athletes was tinkering with the idea of a white skinsuit for the coming cross season.
They asked me to model one.

Needless to say the idea has been suspended indefinitely.

Hunter (Amy and peaches' boy) won his class. (SWEET)

Chappy and Sanford:


Sanford, Liz, Rotten and Nancy:

I hung out with these hooligans most of the night:



the 3/4 race through corner one:



I love me some Shitpanski.

look it's Ali and Rich Bilson:

the start of lap 2 of the pro race.



okay I admit it, I'm a closet Myerson fan. Say what you want, he helped shape cross in the US, he took that on, he didn't sit back and bitch about things, he took action. That and every time he posts on facebook I get to say to my wife, "No He didn't!!!"

poor new cat 2 Kid Chris is heckled by the hooligans.



Monkey makes some new friends:



If anyone ever doubted that Kelly was the man, you better recognize.

After a very fun Saturday evening, I left the house at 4:30am, and headed out to Carlisle, PA for a 40k TT (that's 25 miles for those scoring at home). The course out there is good for me, it has little rollers that a bigger guy like myself can build up some momentum. The course is out and back, with the out having a slight overall rise to it, and the back having a slight decline. It's really kinda flat, but the little rollers add up. I hoped to drill it going out, and use my mass and my momentum to rock a good time coming back. What I didn't account for was the headwind that was waiting for me on after the turn around. I had some bleak spots in the return 20k. I swear I was pretty much dead on the bike for the final 5k. DEEEP IN THE PAIN CAVE. REALLY DEEP.

Alas, I held on for dear life put up a 57:21, :22 seconds faster than my time last year, and I was the fastest of the 6 cat 4's that were there. I only point that out as it was also this time last year that I was 6th of the 6 cat4s that showed up for a TT over in jersey.

So it was a good day, I have that going for me. I'm pretty pleased with that time. Last year at Church Creek, stone flat one loop TT) I did a 59:10. Curious what I can do there?

thanks for reading.

respect
fm
"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep riding, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. "