12th place

Almost top 10. This week the race was on a golf course! Pretty cool. The entire race was off the groomed grass, and it was surprisingly bumpy. Not surprisingly flat and straight out. So I borrowed someone else's bike. It made a difference! Beautiful Italian components and wheels (different than pictured in link). The race was also on Saturday.

So I feel great about my results, I really felt strong. The training over the last couple of weeks has made a slight difference. Having a semi-stragety rather than repeating "don't let this guy pass me" over and over in my head helped. I think we did 4 laps, and by the 3rd lap, I had a huge gap behind me, and during the 4th lap I think 2 people ahead of me dropped due to technical malfunctions.

I had a great start near the front of the group (although about 20 people got "call up's" to the front of the starting line for one reason or another. There are only a couple races left in the season. Hope it doesn't snow! Yesterday was pretty much all non-jacket weather until the end of the day.

So I'm looking forward to building up a cross' bike over the course of next year. I figure a year is a good amount of time to assemble something bit by bit.

Consistency!