2024 Charm City CX - Day 2 - Cat 3 - 13th/33
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Very tough and fun true mud cyclocross conditions, which are usually some of my best. I almost died during the starting spring when someone broke a chain and the field pushed to the right. I got pinched off and pushed into the yellow metal fencing. I suppose I was "lucky" I was able to push into the fencing with my forearm and keep my bars from catching the fence, but my right is definitely pretty swollen and bruised up now. After that I was literally dead last out of the Cat2/3 combined start, so I just made it my goal to work as hard and move up as far as I could. I ended up 13th overall, which considering my rough start I'm pretty happy with. I also made it my mission to try to ride the mansion hill descent every lap to give the fans some entertainment! 😉
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Wow thank you for posting this and further reaffirming my decision to skip both days. See you later this season I'm sure!
@@BadTanLines Aww man, but you’re missing out on the fun true cyclocross Belgian mud conditions (except not that cold yet)! 😜🇧🇪
I raced day one on cat 5 and I died the entire time 😂. I was dead set on skipping it right up until pre ride.
Great work - Still very dry here in Seattle... race 6 and still on file treads. Are you using a older Garmin? Just curious on your recording setup. Check out my races on my page....
Way to go you get hr and rpms just right!
@@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.
Damn I thought 4/5 was a shit show cat 3 is even worse
@@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.