söndag 20 oktober 2013
Kolmårdscrossen race report
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hejchris |
Okay, here comes a race report different from my usual ones just in case anyone was getting bored. Today Söderköping was rainy and very wet so things were not going my way at all. Johan started right next to me and I had a perfect start for once except Johan was way ahead. Huh? Already on the first sand part I had trouble clipping into my pedals so at the hill I had already lost a lot of ground. By the top I had caught up again and was there down the slippery grass slaloms down to the start area's hill of death. But this time the downhill was slippery and scary because it turned a bit at the bottom.
Anyway, things were okay passed the pit and I was right behind Erik from Master who must have had a very bad start considering where he finished. Anyway, the problem today was that it was so wet and slippery everywhere that every time I tried to speed up I was sliding all over. Also every hill was just pure mud so running up meant sliding mostly and then a battle with the pedals. So I had kind of lost hope pretty early on.
The look of relief to reach the top of the muddy hill of death. (Photo Per Engström)
I could see Johan ahead looking back a lot but I just could not make anything work. The longer the race went the more slippery it got and the more frustrated I got. The start area hill was very bad and I hit a bush twice plus always missed the first slalom curve because I was not braking enough. I had a front wheel slide I managed to save and then the last two times down the hill to Göta Kanal were seriously scary. This was cyclocross in every way but I could see my lack of training and skills today. It is incredible how far behind I could get on a bad day like this.
But I am still continuing and will have to see what I can do about my technique. Because the fact is I finished on a day when many did not even start. I think I was 34th or something so this means even more cup points than last week.
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Gutted I missed these races, they seemed to suit me, ooh well.
You going to Åstorp, and if so can I grab a lift with you?
It was a muddy weekend, definitely.
The problem is I am not sure what time I will head down on Friday thanks to the very random undecided people I work with and their meeting plans. Did you mean the whole weekend and were you planning to stay over?
It was both travelling and where are you staying,
I would need to travel down on the Saturday as I have my son's birthday party on the Friday evening, unless you're heading down there after 20:00
Okay, because I was hopefully planning to leave around lunch on Friday. I was too lazy to hunt down cheap places so I just will take 2 nights in Scandic.
Superklass seems to be losing about 10 people per week which is great for cup points but kind of crap for the sport.
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