B-Town CX #3

Today was third in the Bloomington CX series. It was at Cascades PArk and Jay Record laid out the lap. This was a tough lap. Long and with a big climb in it. It was mudy to start with and got muudier as it got ridden. The lap was about 9 minutes and started on a pea-gravel path, then went nto grass for two bareirs. After the barriers youhad to remount fast to go down a little hill and over abridge. After the bridge was the climb. Rocky, rooty and wet. At the top was a total soup mud 'hole', then a left hander and back up climbing. Come out on grass, transfer to pavement, back to grass for another barrier onto the top of a quarry. From the quarry top was a rooty, muddy, rocky decent followed by more grass, a super narrow bridge, road then playgound equipment. It had us going on this huge wood brindge that is part of the new playground equipment at Cascades park; it was slick. Then a barrier, road, another bridge and that's pretty much the lap. How'd I do? Well, I beat Jean-Luc Serriere (pro MTB) Matt Batton (pro MTB), Ryan Shannahan (psuedo pro Tri) and Jay Record (the dude I'm usaully racing against and course desigenr). It may worth a mention that ALL 4 of these dudes dropped out w/ mechanicals. Actually RS flatted and ran a whole lap, sans bike, but in bike shoes. That dude's crazy. I ended up 6th out of about 17 starters. Really hard race, but fun (and free). We had to go to RS's bike shop afterwards and hose off our bikes due to all the mud.
Linds and I went to The Runcible Spoon for b-fast when I got home. Again, this place is off the charts for breakfast. I also watched the end of the Clots game to see if they were going to have a shot at the Superbowl. No dice. The kicker blew it. I can't even fathom the pressure he'd be under when it's 100% in his hands (or foot) to tie up the game, but he cracked. The stats said he'd never missed a kick at home. He has now.