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@@ShawnPeerson Yeah man, so far Charm has been the only race that hasn’t been completely bone dry and even dusty so far this year! Crazy. I’m actually using a Wahoo Elemnt Bolt and a GoPro Hero 9, but with the old Garmin Virb Edit software. I have to do a few tweaks to get 4k/60fps out of it and use ShutterEncoder for merging the video file pieces first, so I don’t have to re-encode the videos and lose quality.

@@gavin7035 Yeahhh, there’s a lot of fast kids in Cat 3 but sometimes I think they miss their pedals and things can get messy up front. In this case though it was apparently a broken chain, but man it was not a fun experience! I think Charm start is often worse than most because of the turn, and the mud on the asphalt wasn’t helping either!

​@JSlade11 but also you kinda ran into the back of a bunch or riders?

@@myoung14I don’t really think so, I didn’t hit anybody. The whole field suddenly moved hard to the right and we were suddenly braking very hard once the guy broke his chain. It’s difficult to go from a full sprint start to slowing suddenly when you don’t know what happening in front. I hit the barrier with my arm in order to avoid getting into and taking out any riders.

@@BadTanLines Aww man, but you’re missing out on the fun true cyclocross Belgian mud conditions (except not that cold yet)! 😜🇧🇪

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it! It was a fun and fast day there for sure.

Nice riding. The young Jr that crashed on double trouble that you avoided took a good fall. Way to avoid him.

@@paulkonifka Thanks man! Yeah, I was still on my bike on that downhill so kind of got stuck on it and couldn't get off the bike in the traffic. I felt pretty bad for him, when I passed him I could tell he was hurting but fortunately Kerry Werner was there helping him then. Hopefully he's back up and racing quickly.

Hey, you gotta start somewhere! Not on the couch is a place lol

@@JSlade11 for sure, doing Hyattsville tomorrow and Charm City next weekend

Haha thanks man, this was definitely my ideal conditions!

Thanks man, you too! Was a great day for the season opener.

@@cyclingronniehedges823 I missed the race too! It went up the road on me on the last lap! 😅

Oh nice, no problem! Hope you got some good shots!

Thanks! I love it when it's these conditions to put the skills to the test!

Thanks! This has been a really fun course the last two years, and muddy CX conditions made it a great ending to the season.

Thanks man! What you also don't see is how badly the swap in the pit went! The bike rack was full and I didn't have anyone pitting for me, so I must have spent 25 seconds getting my pit bike and racking my main bike. I rarely have to pit so I was woefully unpracticed at it lol. It was fun trying to move back up. Sadly CX season around me has ended for the year though =(. I've been using a GoPro Hero9 and processing my videos with the old Garmin VirbEdit program with the .fit data file for the gauges/map. Garmin stopped supporting the software and Google now changed something with the maps data, so you get an error message and can't as easily line up the start of the data file and the video. It can still be used, but you have to trial and error adjusting the start time of the data with a slider until the data timing matches up.

Haha yeah, nice job out there you got me good. Definitely a good and fun race. Thanks!

Sure, that would be fine with me. Thanks for asking. It would be great to get more people interested and to grow the sport!

Heck yeah, Cross is boss, hoss!

Thanks! I have fun on that course!

Sure thing! Yeah, I didn't see the mud at 10:15am but later on it started getting thicker and sketchy with the bumps in it! I slowed down in the mud a lot after almost crashing in it half way through the race lol.

Yeah, I think I had it on Hypersmooth 3.0 - High level and it is amazing what it can do. On Boost mode it's almost too smooth, makes it look like you're on smooth road lol

@@JSlade11 pretty awesome, i need to turn that on next time.

Yeah man, that was pretty wild with the thunderstorm lol. Good racing though!

Thanks, you too!

Thanks for the tip. Yes, I'm much less comfortable riding very close on asphalt than I am off-road in CX or MTB. It's definitely a major weakness for me. I also don't deal really well with the big surges out of the corners unfortunately!

@@JSlade11 same here. I just started getting comfortable drafting this year. I go to GV30 crit training and it is free

@@XavenMonsalud Nice, GV30 is definitely excellent training and seems to be working out for you!

@@JSlade11 The surges are due to being in the back of the pack -- the front group just rolls through at a constant speed -- those in the back often have to slow, then sprint. That 40-60 hard sprints in one race. Much better to be ready to blast off at the start and make it to the front group!

@@cbtpro Yeah, I'm going to really try to get to the start line earlier, start closer to the front and fight to avoid falling back to begin with.

Thanks. I'm using Shutter Encoder to merge multiple GoPro10 files without compressing or re-encoding. Then using the old Garmin Virb Edit 3.6 to overlay the .fit file telemetry onto the video. Congrats on the W out there, you guys were keeping the pace hammered all day long up there.

Yep it was a pretty great event, was looking forward to again this year but with this weather who knows?? Definitely the worst winter sport weather so far this year!

@@JSlade11 I really feel sorry for the snowmobiles also this season seeing as I was once having a machine for 10 seasons. I'd have to had my head examined this season if I still owned it.

@@paulmazzola398 Ahh jeez yeah, that's crazy. I know when I was driving around up there those snowmobiles were all over the place. I'm hoping it'll at least get good enough for a few days of skiing this season!

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah it was fun racing and watching the Pros on Sunday. It was snowing for the Elite Men and the conditions were super slick!

Haha, yeah I was not really feeling up to the handups during this race due to how much I was struggling already! I'm not that great at singlespeed yet so I'm a bit nervous about the mud I see at Nationals so far this week. I'm hoping it dries up by the time I get there Saturday!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

I actually have a powermeter on both bikes and I swapped my computer when I switched bikes, so it picked up the other powermeter right away (to my surprise) and kept recording. The GPS data was really messed when it was on my main bike because the GoPro causes interference with the Wahoo.

Haha thanks! Yeah it was a pretty crazy starting lap this year, lots of trying to pass and getting passed right back in the twisties!

I'm pretty lightweight at about 140lb, and I don't seem to run as "super low pressure" as some others I hear mention, but I use tubeless 35mm wide (measured) mud tires all-season. I typically run between 25-26psi rear and 23-24psi front, depending how rocky/rooty the course is. I absolutely recommend tubeless for CX, because otherwise I would probably have to run 6+ psi higher to avoid pinch flats and have much worse traction as well as a much bumpier ride.

Nope, they only enforce tire width limits at UCI C1 or C2 races and only in the UCI categories. Some people have definitely raced on MTBs.

Thanks, it was a really fun track layout for pit bikes! It's not my property, but oh do I wish it was lol

Nice, cross is boss! It’s definitely different than gravel, but I find it to be much more fun and exciting! I enjoy gravel riding for training but love technical mountain biking and cyclocross is like a cross between the two.

Thanks Brandon! It was a close one, I just needed another half lap!

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed!

Thanks man, glad you liked it! Yes, there were definitely some issues with timing because the lead peloton lapped a group of riders right at the end, so timing lost track of who was on the lead lap and who wasn’t after the lead 10 riders or so. I was told there were 14 in the lead peloton so I am pretty sure I ended up 15th. Tough race with getting stuck behind some crashes right off the bat.

​@@JSlade11 Yeah definitely a technical course which lead to some crashes. At least it wasn't raining. I was the guy in the blue neopro kit at the beginning. Great racing with you, hope to see you at another one!

Awesome, thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!