Holy Crap what a weekend. Nittany Lion pictures are still being loaded, so I'll wait until they are up to talk about all that. So straight on to Sunday and Charm city. We had a big crew of Willem, Brendan, Mike and me from the team, and teammates in spirit but not in kit, Dan Action and Eian from Firehouse bikes, drove down and raced with us. Luckily we all raced the B race except Dan who was racing for UCI points, so we didn't have to wake up to early.
The course was pretty much the same as last year. Nice new touches were the stars instead of the barriers on back hill, and soul food. I don't remember there being soul food last year but I'm happy they will be at a few other MAC races. I was pissed when I didn't get a call up at the start but I got over it as soon the gun went off. Eian was pre-riding the course when everyone was lining up, then was still riding up to the start when the pack went by and had to jump on from behind. So out of a race of 125 starters and with most of us lining up in the back of the field, our results where...
I got 8th place, after the results were initially posted as 10th, Willem got 22nd, Mike got 57th, Brendan got 78th and Eian who had to chase on to the whole race got 83rd. Dan had crap luck again in the UCI race when he went down and his bike decided to ghost ride down the hill but still finished in the money.
But it was a really fun race, I saw alot of familiar faces and met some new ones. And one last thing, really bike thanks to Mikes girlfriend Becky who saved our lives when she saw a SUV Mike didn't see.
So on to the next thing. The competition was hot, there was a lot of photo's provided by Cycling Captured and MLK Images, many, many, many mediocre pictures. Demon Cats was also there but I don't feel like waiting for the photos to load. So the winner for the Charm city cross race is... Eian! for this amazing expression that expresses all that cross racing is.
Willem gets runner up for having the same look of unshakable concentration in every picture. Its like he's doing taxes.
and Brendan gets the last podium for this piture of him running away from a this enormous man who was trying to crush him under his size 20 feet.
and here are some more photo's of Willem
The course was pretty much the same as last year. Nice new touches were the stars instead of the barriers on back hill, and soul food. I don't remember there being soul food last year but I'm happy they will be at a few other MAC races. I was pissed when I didn't get a call up at the start but I got over it as soon the gun went off. Eian was pre-riding the course when everyone was lining up, then was still riding up to the start when the pack went by and had to jump on from behind. So out of a race of 125 starters and with most of us lining up in the back of the field, our results where...
I got 8th place, after the results were initially posted as 10th, Willem got 22nd, Mike got 57th, Brendan got 78th and Eian who had to chase on to the whole race got 83rd. Dan had crap luck again in the UCI race when he went down and his bike decided to ghost ride down the hill but still finished in the money.
But it was a really fun race, I saw alot of familiar faces and met some new ones. And one last thing, really bike thanks to Mikes girlfriend Becky who saved our lives when she saw a SUV Mike didn't see.
So on to the next thing. The competition was hot, there was a lot of photo's provided by Cycling Captured and MLK Images, many, many, many mediocre pictures. Demon Cats was also there but I don't feel like waiting for the photos to load. So the winner for the Charm city cross race is... Eian! for this amazing expression that expresses all that cross racing is.
Willem gets runner up for having the same look of unshakable concentration in every picture. Its like he's doing taxes.
and Brendan gets the last podium for this piture of him running away from a this enormous man who was trying to crush him under his size 20 feet.
and here are some more photo's of Willem
This is Mike
Some of me (shane)
Brendan
and Eian, again showing us what suffering really looks like.
Jesus. That picture of Eian is incredible!
ReplyDeleteGoodness that man is gigantic!!
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