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

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 [...]

Sport 35-44
14th/19 (1:35:14)
Great weather and trail conditions to race in Ft.Ord this week end. I was hoping more people would go race at Cool, but the field was about the same size as last time.

Drove down to Monterey on Sat and pre rode the course with fellow Team Integrate members: we did 2 laps at [...]

“Boy today everything sucked: my chain sucked, weather sucked and i did too.”
That’s what was going in my head as I pushed to finish the last lap of the 4.5 laps of the CCCX course today: that was fun!
I did a pretty good job of setting my expectations right in the last few days. I [...]