OVCX-Gun Club Cross- Miamiville (Cincinnati) Ohio-11/2/2008

As I type, Barack Obama is now our newly elected President of these United States.
Yes Yes Yes. George Bush YOU are fired! GET Out of town! Palin, you can go home now.

On another note...
With only a few more races to go in the OVCX, my fitness and form is finally coming around. This picture certainly shows how great I felt. I was 12th at the start into the pits here and moved up to 10th and was chasing 9th on the last lap. I know I could have gotten that guy in front of me, he wasn't that far ahead and I was gaining on him in the twisty bits - fast. I suppose it was my time, but it certainly wasn't my fault there was broken GLASS on the course. WTF I say. With a half a lap to go, I roll through the glass, pucker up, and think for the last time, I hope I don't get a flat through here I hope I don't get a flat through here, and what do you know, last lap, chasing down 9th, the best result, best legs all season, best feeling, and POP, pfffffffffftttt, my 10th goes to 12th just past the sand pit and me running as fast as I can to the wheel pit. I get past the sand, through some more twists, now I am 14th, into the pits, 19th now....crap, crap crap. I get my rear wheel on, adreniline is pumping now, I am pissed! I chase down the two last guys to pass me and I make haste to get anyone else I can see. I went as hard as I could and even hoped I would throw up, just to get back those hard earned places, but I only managed a 17th place. I suppose not terrible considering the flat, running far to the pits, but I didn't throw a temper tantrum or throw my bike at least :) - I went out on the road to "cool off" so I wouldn't say anything I would regret.
I did get some nice compliments, after the race, from fellow racers about my fitness for the day, when calmed me down and made me feel better, it's only a bike race and it's fun, right? Right.
This course though is to my strengths for sure. It's like a small Lake Hope State Park Mountain bike trail. Flowy, fun, hilly, and hurtfull in sections. There was a fast section just after the double set of barriers down a small hill and up into the double track in the woods, with a double track fading left turn and over all the glass and back out to the Finish area < then into the sandpit with a 180 degree turn into the other half of the sand pit. Certainly one of my favorite courses this year, it's just too bad i got a flat. The tubie on the Planet X rim is finished, a big slice from the giant piece of glass. I was supprised I could still ride the rim with the tire glued on...now I just need to get a new tubie and maintain this fitness, before the State Championship in a few weeks.
This weekend is OVCX - John Bryan State Park, another one of my favorites and a place I have always done well. TJ said they mixed things up some this year, so I am excited to see what is in store.
She took some great shots but I liked this one of me spinning up some sand.
Top Pic taken by Jeffrey Jakucyk