Cyclo Cross Season - It's Here!

Zoinks, Woke up this morning to 3/3.5 inches of new snow and today is the day I decided to kickoff my cyclo cross (CX) season, good call. The race was in Boulder and race #1 of the Denver Boulder Couriers Series, and the ninth, yes ninth CX race of the season in Colo. The CX season runs from Aug. through the second weekend of Dec., a race every Sat/Sun during that time. So the race starts, and I feel suprisingly well, well enough to make the break with the lead group of 9/10 or so, than plop, my rear tire blows, I run like the Energizer Bunny to the nuetral pit to see if anyone could spare a rear, totally lucked out and some super nice guy let me ride his tubular the rest of the race. I hurt myself pretty good trying to catch the field, was able to catch around 10 guys but then blew up, I was exhausted. Even hit the pavement pretty good during my attempt to catch up, see picture, and I didn't rip my cool spandex, sweet huh. Anywho, I finished in nar-nar position but it was super fun. I'm not racing tomorrow, need to get the car ready for ski season, ski box on the roof, wax, RainX, and drop the new skis off for a quick tune and new bindling mount, it's been dumping huge in the mountains, can't wait to ski, until then, more CX. Peace B