This is NOT me. These guys are going way faster than I did all weekend. Jeremy Powers in front here, trying to catch a few in front of him on Saturday in Louisville at the USGP.Let me see, where to start where to start. Well the easiest tale to tell is I missed my start of the Mens 2/3 race Saturday morning. Yes, I am old and looked at the start times, no less than a dozen times. How does this happen? well, I think after it happens once, you won't ever let it happen again. It was pretty embarrassing, I will say. There the three of us were, standing in the office of one of the biggest cross races of the year with our hands out of our pockets, looking at each other with the feeling someone had just told us our dogs died and the earth was ending. We had nothing, but open mouthed expressions. Once reality set in, we starting to think, how did this happen, what made us think our race was at 10:30 a.m. when in reality it was 9:30 a.m. And a nano second of thinking that they had changed the start time on us, remembering, laughing outloud and funny how all the other 70 participants manged to pick up their registration packets and get warmed up and make it in time for call ups, but not us. We were left standing with our helmets in our hands thinking what to do, race dammit! Layne and I got into the 35+ Masters CAT 1,2,3 race and Mason was just out of luck for a race this day. Sorry Charlie. Bummer was it was 9:05 a.m. and the masters race was at 12:30 p.m. Lots of watching, standing around and waiting would follow. I did manage to get some food, take my time, yell at the folks we were supposed to be racing with, Kyle, Joe and the other Columbus racers, and get a great warm up, before our 12:20 p.m. call ups to almost last place and last place in the starting block.
Oh, this would be fun right? As I like to say, it was all Asses and Elbows after the start whistle, down the pave' and onto the more narrow section of grass and into a sweeping right turn into a more narrow section with a hard left around our first tree. We then zipped across the grass, in front of Vendor/Exhibit Row and towards our first set of barriers. Wow, I can't believe we got there so fast. Bikes, elbows, tape, stakes, lots of swear words and lots of guys flying by me like I was standing still.
gotta roll - but I thought I would at least get something up here for now.
