Yep, true true in fact it is true I have turned into a slacker blog composor which consists of letting the 6754357 of people know what is going on here and there and let me tell you… holy catfish stuff has been going up, definately not down

Although that isn’t completely true… I am not sure what in the World made me get up before the sun, but yesterday I went on a run with some friends at 5:45am and low and behold I was the only one without a light. Oh yes and guess who was the only one to find the only rock on the entire run and trip on it… mawah. I haven’t been on a trip since last year, probably around this time so I guess I was due for one…

And talking about other trips or I guess I haven’t yet, but anyways… we went to Portland for the cyclocross race on Sunday where Phil raced and I watched a number of people crash on the 6 decker (oh yes 6!!) plywood ankle hurdle setup.

Which brings me to my next suggestion topic and really first…

If I were going to race over wooded hurdles about ankle high there are a few things I would do…

Well for one I would wear a mouth gard, shin gards, wrist protectors, knee pads, and of course the usual… helmet and what not

BUT the most important thing it seems really is bike placement when going over the wooden ankle high hurdles… now the chance of me falling over these (like many this weekend) are great to extreme (considering it is hard for me to get over a rock) SO

As I was watching I noticed a couple different ways to place the bike being…
1.over the shoulder laying mostly on your back (preferred it seemed by mock speed travelers)
2. a half over the shoulder (or more should height but not over) more to the side
3. a barly off the ground middle bar grad (I am actually amazed the bikes cleared the hurdles)

Now I would probably go with number 2 soley because in the likely hood of falling I could launch my bike toward the end of the 6 decker wooden hurdles kinda like a shot poot or discus.
Number 1 seems to cause problems because in the likely hood of tripping it is unlikely to avoid getting tangled up in the bike, and if you happen to avoid this… the bike will surely be on top and who wants a bike on top of them
AND number 3 seems to cause problems becaues as you are nose diving toward a ankle high wooden hurdle your bike will be doing the same thing AND two nose dives have to be worse then one…

Then I guess I would just make sure I put some oil on me so I would slid and not stick minimizing skid rash… (and look shinny of course)

Alright that is about all other then building and hammering away listening to none other then MC Hammer to keep me motivated to just keep hammering…

I am off to practice shot putting in case I want to cross race in my life time… I am going to be ready for the trip, not to the race the one over the ankle high hurdles…

Oh, but if you are really good I guess you could hop them like some do… true true I agree

K, night
:)Chrissy

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