So I really should have started this earlier. How much earlier?
Well, I guess I'm towards the end. I'll have to back up.
I guess I should have started when the bikes showed up. These aren't just any bikes. I have the two coolest cyclocross bikes in North America that aren't being ridden by Jonathan Page at the moment. Yes. Both of them. If anyone thinks they have a cooler bike than either of mine, I'd like to hear about it. I'll have to fill the rest of that story in later.
The next best time could have been when I started Cross Boot Camp at Cycle U. That was good but not that exciting. Who wants to hear about sprints and intervals? This isn't going to be that good anyway. Why would I want to make it worse?
Maybe the first cross race of the season? Oh Boy Oberto/Redline's Labor Day Cross Race at South Seatac was lots of fun. I did just well enough to delude myself into thinking I'd be better this year at cross. The truth came out later.
The next starting point might have been the first SCC series race. It was tons of fun, extra muddy, and I felt good racing and might have done pretty well.
So if all of those were good places to start, I missed 'em.
So why now? Uhh, I'm in Belgium. In the cyclingnews apartment. I went to two big-league cross races this weekend. I won't be here forever, but the blog will go on because I have travels planned to Portland for the GP, and then KC for Cross Nats.
I guess the key to all of this was getting a camera. I did that last week. I wish I had set this up before leaving, but I was busy with laundry, hanging with Evan and Henry, and work as well. I have a good cameraphone (2.3 megapixels), but it isn't fast enough and just doesn't have the horsepower for good action shots that cross requires. Nothing quite like having the right tool for the job.
In the next couple of days, I'll get the trip going, put pictures up, and blah, blah, blah my way through the minutiae of each day. I don't care if you get bored. I'm doing this for me as much as anyone else. After that, I'll try and go back over the high points of the season so far.
Anyway, thanks for joining me. Either from the start, or maybe you're reading this at some point in the future. The super distant future. Like next month.
Well, I guess I'm towards the end. I'll have to back up.
I guess I should have started when the bikes showed up. These aren't just any bikes. I have the two coolest cyclocross bikes in North America that aren't being ridden by Jonathan Page at the moment. Yes. Both of them. If anyone thinks they have a cooler bike than either of mine, I'd like to hear about it. I'll have to fill the rest of that story in later.
The next best time could have been when I started Cross Boot Camp at Cycle U. That was good but not that exciting. Who wants to hear about sprints and intervals? This isn't going to be that good anyway. Why would I want to make it worse?
Maybe the first cross race of the season? Oh Boy Oberto/Redline's Labor Day Cross Race at South Seatac was lots of fun. I did just well enough to delude myself into thinking I'd be better this year at cross. The truth came out later.
The next starting point might have been the first SCC series race. It was tons of fun, extra muddy, and I felt good racing and might have done pretty well.
So if all of those were good places to start, I missed 'em.
So why now? Uhh, I'm in Belgium. In the cyclingnews apartment. I went to two big-league cross races this weekend. I won't be here forever, but the blog will go on because I have travels planned to Portland for the GP, and then KC for Cross Nats.
I guess the key to all of this was getting a camera. I did that last week. I wish I had set this up before leaving, but I was busy with laundry, hanging with Evan and Henry, and work as well. I have a good cameraphone (2.3 megapixels), but it isn't fast enough and just doesn't have the horsepower for good action shots that cross requires. Nothing quite like having the right tool for the job.
In the next couple of days, I'll get the trip going, put pictures up, and blah, blah, blah my way through the minutiae of each day. I don't care if you get bored. I'm doing this for me as much as anyone else. After that, I'll try and go back over the high points of the season so far.
Anyway, thanks for joining me. Either from the start, or maybe you're reading this at some point in the future. The super distant future. Like next month.
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