It Beats Riding the Trainer!

So today's race was mud!  I mean mud like I haven't raced in, in years!!

Oh yea, I said race!  It beats the roller's. 

 The course was spot on, the only thing is the crazy weather we are having.  From spring day to thunderstorms to 60-80 mph winds in the area with tornado warnings and flash flood warnings to snow the next day.  Then today it wound up being 49 degrees!  This is some crazy Midwest weather.  As the saying goes "If you don't like today, wait til tomorrow!

So back to the race...No preride for me.. I saw what the bikes of those who rode so I decided to hit it blind.  We lined up all 14 of us and off we went.  I didn't clip in right away so I wound up midpack.  From there it was very interesting, very deep mud with ton's of leaves to clog up everything.  I had to stop 3 times to just clean out my fork from all he debris that was jammed in there.   My wheel wouldn't even spin, insane!  I had to stop twice to clear debris from the rear derailleur.  Wow!  There were a couple of sections near the river that were an absolute marsh and I ran it ever lap!  My shoes were trashed! I think I found the bottom of at least two holes that had to half way go to China!!  Oh yea those were my Christmas socks!  But after the first lap you couldn't see the reindeers or Christmas trees at all!

I did wash them this time H-man!!

I do have to give a shout out to J-H for spinning vinyl as we raced!  I mean actual vinyl on two turntables on top of the RV, Clark!!  The music kicked arse!  

On a couple of the sections I sat and spun it, with no results it was as if I was on rollers!  All I could do was laugh at myself and concentrate on not hitting the deck!  Which I didn't do, but by the looks of it you wouldn't have been able to tell!

I have to get this shit clean for Wednesdays race!  I hope my shoes are dry by then!  On top of that I'm not racing on my black/red Orb next race!  Not the way the weather is looking like it is!  Or I might just might but use my aluminum wheels from the other one on!  I will see how the mood strikes me on Wednesday.  

Tomorrows temps in the 50's are screaming for me to hit the roads for a couple of hours...