rock one.

today was day one of jingle cx.

it was a pretty sweet event.

photos to come... i left the camera in karla's echo of a car.

the course was tough and included a big sand pit, a little mud, a brutal climb, a ridiculous decent, and a short run up, with a bunch of grass sections inbetween that were fast.
everything you could ask for.

i lined up at the back of the group at the startline, a little pissed i didn't get there earlier.

oh well.

then they announced that the were doing call up in order of registration.
sweet, another perk to pre-reg!

speaking of registration, never have i seen a smoother run reg table.
kudos to the promoters!

i drilled the start, cuz that what you have to do. i was second in the holeshot, and hit the first set of barriers with the front group. after that i faded little by little. i know i was losing time to people on the decent. i was definately on the brakes to much, but most people were. the downhill was rough and rutted.
yikes.

anyway, my race was ok, i rolled in 24th. but the little guy was on fire and finished a strong 8th place!
sr lolled in at 34th or so.

the elite womens race was fun to watch, i was h2o duty so it was double duty, cheering and hand ups. in your face barb.

(i don't mean that).

(mostly).

the mn girls rocked it, linda, linda, karla. all awesome.

the elite mens race was sick. horner won the holeshot with h-wood on his wheel, (almost).
we hung out at the run up and show the locals how to leave dollar primes.

we got horner and swanson to grab dollars from the ground on the way up.
giving back to the scene.

super rookie might have pulled off one of the sweetest cycling moments ever, but i will let him tell you about it. i may have video of that up soon too...

at first horner, tilford, swanson, and bjorn were the front group. then doug seemed to pop and dropped from the group.
the group splintered and doug regained his composure, (and collected a few bucks to pad his sweet salary), and caught bjorn, and then tilford.

horner took the win, and doug pulled off 2nd. not bad.

photos and tomorrows race reports soon!