OVCX 2 St. Mary's

We headed down to the2nd ovcx race in Indianapolis Indiana on Saturday to pre ride for the race on Sunday. I got to the course and rode 4-5 laps and felt pretty good for just getting out of the car after a 5hr drive. The course was a grassy and bumpy. It looked like we would be doing high 6min laps and it was going to beat your back up. I decided to run Grifo’s at 27psi for the bumpy and loose turns. Had a good dinner at http://bruggebrasserie.com/ and was ready to rock the 2nd race of the ovcx season.

Race day warm up went well and I was ready to race. I was front row this based on the results of ovcx 1. There was another huge field in the elite race around 55 starters. This is a great sigh for the ovcx. The total entry’s for the race was around 500 again for the race. I ended up with a decent start and was in 10-12^th after the first lap. I was ok with my position because of how fast the course was and I knew it would break up later, but Josh Johnson had other ideas he checked out and had about 40sec after 3 laps. He was fresh off of 3^rd place at UCI gateway cup on Wednesday. He ended up crushing us all and won by over 2 min. Meanwhile I was battling for the 3^rdafter Mitchel Kersting went on the attack with about 4 laps to go. I positioned myself poorly for the last 3 laps and ended up getting 8^th. Better than the first week and my back is feeling better. We had post-race beer at http://tritonbrewing.com a great sponsor of the race.

This week we get to race in Ohio and it’s my birthday!

Results

http://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2012-2907

 

OVCX 1 Huber’s Apple CX

I headed down to the first ovcx race in Southern Indiana on Saturday to pre ride for the race on Sunday. I got to the course and rode 4-5 laps and felt pretty good for just getting out of the car after a 5hr drive. The course was a flat dry and bumpy. It looked like we would be doing high 6min laps and it was going to beat your back up. I decided to run 34c fangos at 27psi for the bumpy and loose turns. Had a good dinner at New Albanian Brewery and was ready to kick of the ovcx season.

Race day warm up went well and I was ready to race. The call up procedure was a little wonky going by reg. order instead of your uci or usa cycling ranking. There was a huge field in the elite race around 70 starters. This is a great sigh for the ovcx. The total entry for the race was around 500 people for the race. I ended up being called up to the 5^th row and I knew that it was going to be a scrum to get to the front. It took me about 4laps to get out into clear track so I could start trying to get to the lead group. I ended up catching a lot of people but never made it to the front. I was in the second group racing for 10^th. I was 13^th overall not the result I was after but at least I have a better starting spot next race and it’s a long season. The ride of the day went to Josh Johnson who started last row and ended up 3^rd!

Results

http://www.cxmagazine.com/ovcx-1-draws-uci-level-talent-opener-hubers-apple-cross

Cross Touring

Wow the last month flew by. Here is why 1^st weekend I raced NEOCX 1 and the Big Valley mtb race. Then the driving started. We went to the opening UCI weekend at Nittnay Lion CX in Philly after that weekend we went to OVCX 1 in Louisville. Last weekend was Ellison Park UCI in Rochester NY. This weekend is OVCX 3 and 4 in Dayton. WOW good thing I bought a hybrid!

The support for this tour wouldn’t be possible with out my great sponsor’s. The Van Dessel’s are the best cx bikes I have ever raced on. If you want to ride one hit me up at cx practice or the race and give her spin. Cycle-Smart, Bike Authority and Verge clothing have also been great. The rest of the tour is coming fast see you at the races!

New Post

What a blog post? Yes. My Cross biking schedule is up. I am pumped. Cross is boss. All that I am going to say about last weekend is Jpow.com went fast in mud, I did not. See you at cross practice!

CX Practice

Cross Practice at Brett's

Here is the address for cross practice at Brett's farm in Chagrin Falls. Practice starts at 5:30 Wednesday Sept 7th. We will be doing skills for the first hr then we will be racin the 2nd hr. BOB.
7111 Bainbridge Rd
Chagrin Falls, OH 44023