September 7, 2024Race Info
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The ‘cross season has begun and I was there. The Deadgoat Supercross took place in Cochrane and we weren’t smoked out or anything.
The course was on the seminary grounds (just up the road from Cochrane BMX) and I was impressed with how twisty it was, especially how they fit the course all together without needing to cross any roads. While there were the requisite barriers to hop(/dismount and carry over) it was not a very technical course at all. By the afternoon it was going to be hot (30C), but my race was in the Novice class at 9:30, when there was still a tiny bit of the overnight chill in the air.
February 2, 2024 At the end of 2022 I began actually watching cyclocross races. My kid still had “naps” on days when he wasn’t at school and I discovered that YouTube could show me what had been going on in Belgium that morning. It was ‘kerstperiode’ so there were a pile of races to get thoroughly immersed in. I’d watch most of a race and then get the final lap queued up for when C could come out of his room and we would watch 15 minutes of muddy bike racing.
February 1, 2024 In 2023 I was hoping to be a better racer. I spent the winter actually using the gym we have at work, doing time on the stationary bike so as not to lose all my kilometres in my legs. They say you should do strength training and I tried but it’s a pain.
The other thing I did was join a club. Velocity Cycling Club is my new bunch. We have a coach and club jerseys and it’s all a bit more community-building than the lone-wolf cyclist thing I’ve been doing. I went on a couple of group rides and they were fun. The first was about 60km and easy riding. I self-selected to the slow group, and was the only person in it (along with the bunch leader). But it was good. I got to learn about some of the group riding norms and hand signals. Old Paul was very welcoming in general and did a good job showing me how to get close to people in the bunch.
January 27, 2024 Cyclocross (also cyclo-cross, ‘cross or cx) is my favourite discipline of riding bikes. In its contemporary form you ride your bike around in a field and sometimes have to get off your bike and carry it because the hills are too steep or there are stairs or someone put a bunch of boards across the track. I often think of it as the least efficient way of using your bike. It’s awesome.
November 11, 2023 Race Info
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I missed out on writing this up at the end of the 2023 CX season, and now that 2024 has come around, I don’t have a bunch of the data I like to put in these race writeups. Nonetheless, here’s what I can find (thankfully I did do my CrossResults upload back when the race happened).
This race was postponed from earlier in the month because of some freakish weather. There was supposed to be a second race on the Sunday but with the rescheduling, that didn’t happen.
October 21, 2023 Race Info
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I missed out on writing this up at the end of the 2023 CX season, and now that 2024 has come around, I don’t have a bunch of the data I like to put in these race writeups. Nonetheless, here’s what I can find (thankfully I did do my CrossResults upload back when the race happened).
Results
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Open Women
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- Francesca SEAL
- Susanne MCARTHUR
- Quinn FLATER
Open Men
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- Mark FAGNAN
- Andrew DAVIDSON
- Scott DESMARAIS
Expert Men
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- Adam ROBERTS
- Brendan CARDIFF
- Jason PROCHE
Sport Women
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- Kathryn SWEENEY
- Hazel ROBERTS
- Madeline MAGLEO
Sport Men
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- Josh BARKER
- Sean SWEENEY
- Carl MILLER
Novice Men
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- Cor SINKE
- William KINDZIERSKI
- Arun WARD
My Results
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