Capital City CX

Capital City Cross Day-1, we headed out expecting to get wet. That's the odd thing about cyclocross I suppose, knowing that it would be cold and raining just made me look forward to getting onto the course all the more.

It did rain during the men's race but the course held up pretty well and remained rideable (for most people anyway). There were a few off-camber hills that turned to mud and there were the run-ups which became mostly mud as well. There were definitely plenty of people who decided to lay on the ground and take a nap for a bit, so they were easy to ride around. 

Day-2 promised sunshine and clear skies. Double-race weekends still working great - I felt even better today than yesterday and went on to finish with my best placing in a cyclocross race to date. We had a great showing today as a whole team.

Dirty Wooden Shoe CX

Wooden Shoe! Back-to-back race days are going well so far, I felt good today despite doing a race and a wedding yesterday. A little riding and a lot of wandering around checking if tape needed to be repaired. Our event went great and the weather was nearly perfect. 

Course Building

It's Friday afternoon and the Jimmy Johns team is out in force to prepare for a big two-day race weekend. We're using the South Overlook property at Red-Rock Lake again. I still don't like this area as well as the Whitebreast location myself but it always turns out great and it's more accessible here from major highways. 

I think we put in about 500 poles and started with 14,000ft caution tape (not sure how much of that we used). It had rained recently but the ground handled it just fine and the forecast was clear for the whole weekend!

Altoona Palooza CX

Cyclocross!! I have no idea why this sport is so addictive. Even in the middle of mountain-bike season, it's a huge joy to start cyclocross up. There must be so many things wrong that it's just right I guess.

Altoona Palooza is the first race of the year this season. The venue is a large sports complex on the edge of town which is also simultaneously host to a huge city/area summer party with car shows, food, mud volleyball, you name it. Lots of spectators, plenty of energy and a great time. It was absolutely roasting hot but we all made it through. Planning on near record heat for the next week as well. It'll be a hot mountain-bike race tomorrow!

Corrine finished up with a 3rd place win and Cody with a 1st place.

CX Begin! Altoona Palooza

Tomorrow is the first Iowa Cyclocross race so we're getting out a whole different set of hardware which hasn't been used since last year. Everything wintered over just fine and it's time to rock and roll.