And so it was time again to visit a grey and wet Skatås for the 6th race in the Göteborg cross series. That also meant time for another round of battle for us in 'andra klungan'. Since the battle to avoid last place is extremely serious, I will name this 'Göteborg Superprestige'. Sounds good eller hur? And the Göteborg Superprestige was pleased to welcome a cyclist from Sävedalen CK.

Since it was wet, the grus corners were better this week so I managed to avoid any falling. My start went pretty okay but by the end of the first asphalt stretch Peter passed me with quite the load of determination. So his lead became 25m quite quickly and I was already getting quite worried. But this is cross and anything can happen over 5 laps. On the second lap I made a mess of the sand part and was passed by the guy from Sävedalen CK which triggered the start of the first battle. I stayed with him for the rest of the 2nd lap and I can't remember exactly what happened but he fell and I took off and that was the end of that.

The nice thing about Battle #1 was that it got me quite close to Peter so the 3rd lap was spent closing that gap. I made up most of the time at the stairs because after 15 min of this, no one wants to run up stairs. Right after jumping over the cement pipe, Peter then fell while jumping on his bike, probably because I was stressing him. =) So I passed but he was right on my tail through the finish stretch. This was lap 4 and I felt pretty okay so after one corner I pedalled as fast as I could and managed to get a gap. That little 'spurt' also meant that I caught up to David who was probably not thrilled to see me go flying passed on the grass. He did pass me again on the next corner but I was motivated to get away from Peter so I passed again and tried to make my best of the long asphalt bit before the stairs. And that was it...no more Peter. No more David either. With one lap to go, I was in good shape to take this Superprestige race. And I did after a cautious but fast lap.

With my current lead of 3-1, I could technically just roll around next week for Luciacrossen. But the two classes start separately so there could be more people to watch our battle and that is always nice. All I can say is that I love cross. This is cykelglädje for me! Thanks to everyone I am racing with for making it worth training in this very dark month.

In other news, MTB-pro Åsa Erlandsson stopped by to try out CRC CX6 but she had a flat tire early on. And I will be nice and not point out that by finishing, our Superprestige group actually beat her. No no...that would be mean. No link to her website either since my virus scanner went nuts after clicking on it. Someone should probably fix that.

So now it is time for MCKs julfest and I am in charge of bringing bread. Should I bake it myself or just buy some? Silly question...