First cross ride... she was tough

Got up sooooo early this morning, 9 freakin 30 !!! Arrived at the bank in Fenwick for 11am to meet Rob Watt and the legs were already burning. First time ever riding a cross bike, couldn't even hold 30 into the headwind. We headed out to a school to do some hard efforts on the bumpy and pretty hilly terrain. Hopped into a rocky pit of some sort and got my first official cyclocross crash, bumped my head off the slide and all, no gracefulness whatsoever. Got used to some mounting/dismounting and a little stair run up. We went to some church and found some pretty sick doubletrack in the back forest and headed to some other school where they were setting up for the parade and found some more of the same type of doubletrack. Trying to ride beside a frozen puddle my front wheel caught some ice and the bike disappeared, this crash hurt alot more than the other one, ice doesn't cushion a fall very well. Found some trails that looped around and some that went into nowhere at all. Stopped for a little ice sliding break then the ice build up on the cleet made for another stop.

Got back to Rob's to pump up the tires and have an M&M cookie (thanks) and headed off for a crit effort through a subdivision. By the time we were done police were blocking off the roads and people were lining the streets to see us finish the workout so i gave them what they wanted and threw the hands in the air a good 500m before the finish to give my salutations. Rob thinks they were there for the parade, but all the blood in his body was pumping to his muscles and not enough to the brain.

Got back home for some cabage rolls and perogies, a baby salad (baby carrots, baby cucumbers, baby tomatoes, and baby spinach leaves), and a one-week-old protien shake. Removed the water bottle cages from the bike because of its 25ish pounds of beefiness this is where the weight problem seemed to be.

Great workout, nothing to do now but wait for the results to come in

... oh yeah, and race