Another fast and dumb course at CCCX, made more interesting by the occasional sand pit and a few high-speed-oh-shit-moments.

Took me a while to digest all the mud and write down the race report. This event has been epic. I raced with Team Red Pill in the 5 men master category, with JL, Tick, Richard and Jeff. I arrived in Cool only at 8PM  on Friday and it was pouring with the wind blowing.The [...]

XC Sport 40-44
Time: 1:45′19″
50th place out of 101
My fourth time at Sea Otter and first time racing sport there.
Got down to Monterey a little after 7AM, driving in some thick fog. It wasn’t that cold but it was foggy and they decided to delay the start by around 30 mins, I guess because of the [...]

Sport Solo 20th out of 30
7 laps in 8:29′08″ (moving time 7:30′18″)

This was my first solo endurance race: I raced last year at the Coolest 24 with a corporate team but racing solo in an endurance event is a totally different story.
This is the 4th edition of this great event organized by the good folks [...]

Sport 35+
15th place out of 22
Another great event put together by the BikeMonkey people, this time with and exceptional turnout of 130+ riders.
The course was great as always and particularly challenging: there are a couple of creek crossings that scare the bejezus out of me. Rutted and rocky descends, short and steep climbs but more [...]