Racing at Pat’s Acres yesterday made me REALLY regret missing v.1 two weeks ago. Ed's characterization of “intimate” is right on. The course had tremendous flow, I never felt like I was elbowing my way through a turnstile.
Muddy grungey funkey racey awesome FUN. A great race all around. The mud was surreal, slippery and sticky at the same time. I managed four laps with my disc brake-equipped bike before the deraillers gummed up, switched to singlespeed for the last two and then the VBRAKES got stopped up.
Also: Brian Hart raced FOUR times yesterday!?! Stamina!
Paul Souders
@axoplasm
On Nov 3, 2012, at 7:21 PM, EAL wrote:
> Of course, if Ron at least made it LOOK difficult when he blows on by he'd have more credibility about course difficulty. That said, although this course was a bit over my head technically, that's exactly what made it a great course. This was a course that will improve your bike handling. It was fun, intimate, fun, interesting, fun and challenging. And fun. Once again I find myself very happy with my choice to one of the smaller saturday races. Everyone should understand that the fact that these races are smaller, they are extremely well run and have high quality courses and competition. Thanks the the organizers, volunteer and sponsors for yet another quality CCX event. We are so lucky.
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> Ed
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> Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 5:31 PM
> Subject: [OBRA Chat] Canby Cross = FUN
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> That was one slick puppy! Randy was right....there was mud. The off camber sand was not a ride area for this old man. There was mud....it was slick. I was riding in places I had not planned non riding...thank you mud. Disc brakes provided much more clearance and were not the mud traps of rim brakes. Out with the old...in with the new.
> The course was much more fun than the first one for me because almost the entire thing required your utmost attention. Randy and crew set up a very nice course in light of the fact that they could not use the river crossing due to higher water. This affirms what I said last year regarding the loacation.....It offers lots of options for a cross race.
> Thanks Randy / Crew, sponsors and the usual suspects in the form of the OBRA crew. Even though it was intense riding, I was smilin’ in my .
> ronnie
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