Weekly Cyclocross Practice

All season, Scott organized and ran the cx practices for all that wanted to join every week, rain or shine (or cold). Hope it pays off for all those that are heading to CX Nationals in Texas in a few weeks!

Thanks again, Scott.

Thanks to the Trek Cafe!

Thanks to the Trek Café who’s been giving a shout out to both Colectivo Coffee and our Trek Midwest Team all season long!
We’ve been properly fed and supplied quite well with coffee!

Cinci3 CX Road Trip

I was lucky to co-pilot an RV to southern Ohio for the Cinci3 Cx racing over the Halloween weekend.  Racing started on Friday.  The fields were large with 4 or 5 categories making up a wave with a total of 100 – 125 riders per wave.  They do a mix-category mass start with call-ups based on your Cylocrossresutls.com ranking.  It was quite a different experience than the WCA races. 

Friday racing was in a cold rain with the course quickly turning into liquid mud during my race.  The mud was the best feature turning a “good” course into a challenging super- fun course.       Each day the race venue changes to a different park. 

Saturday was windy and cold and the course was nearly dry.  Racing started in the afternoon and finished in the dark with the pro-women and men.    It was a power course with three short steep climbs - the kind where they put a U-turn at the bottom and you grunt your way up most of it, then repeat 3 times.  On the 6th lap you are really wondering if your legs are going to fall off or not.  It also featured a  long sand pit that was ride able for some but running at least ½ of it was faster for types like me. 

Sunday’s course was one of the best CX courses I’ve ridden.  It had some extreme off camber sections that had wet grass and usually a couple bikes and bodies sprawled across them.  I saw guys fall and slide right under the tape and off the course.  Couple of serious steep climbs that were run ups for most but a few could ride them.   The worse was a 15-20 foot wall of a climb.  The only one a saw pre-ride it was Matt Shiver.  I hear the top 10 pros were riding it.   The pro course also featured a gnarly downhill section we didn’t have to do – thank god. 

I had some good results in my category  a 1st on Friday, and 2nd both Friday and Saturday.  I was chasing Tom Price all weekend again. (Finished 2nd to him both days at the Trek Cup. )  Only managed to pass him on Friday after he crashed a bunch in the mud.  

Thanks for reading,

Mike M

Post-race analysis

Top step!

Trek CXC Cup

Micah navigating the downhill section.

Soy

Go go go!

Are you ready for some CX?

Fun times!

At the Trek CXC Cup