End of the Cross Season

That's my most fun cross season yet. Probably raced at least double the races I normally have, and got a place in Dig in at the Dock, the biggest race of the year in this neck of the woods. Not as high a placing as Beveridge Park last year, but this was a bigger, and more competitive, field. And a course that wouldn't normally suit me. That just makes me even happier with my performance - granted only 75th, but for most of the middle of the race I was dicing with 4 or 5 other riders. 

I knew where I was strong, and unlike Beveridge it wasn't the end of the course, so on the penultimate lap I hit hard on my strengths. The way I figured, it might mean I went through the bell with them around me and gave myself a chance. Only I clearly hit it pretty hard indeed, and had opened up a 150 yard gap.

Brilliant, brilliant day out at the races. And I've finally something to build on for the next season. 

Oh, I also had a number of photos, and a photo-article in the programme. Nice.

(pics are of a young supporter who was chuffed to get her pic taken; one of the famed Velo Club Moulin dugs; and Lucy Grant, of Peebles, a frankly superb young rider and current Scottish CX champ. Extra is Struan Pryde, another excellent young rider from Deeside, who actually specialises in road, and soon track, for whom I'm certain there are big things destined, along with a gaggle of supremely talented young riders out there).