cyclocross season

My cyclocross season this year is really just the local race weekend this year. Between the trip to the Dominican, kids, job, etc. it just limits my ability or desire to train and travel to races. Thats alright because we have practice races here every Wednesday evening and a few weeks ago we had our race weekend. The race weekend involved a saturday evening full of racing followed by races all day sunday. Last year the weather was horrible, so it was a nice change for it to be beautiful this year. I did the 35+ races and officiated the other races. The saturday evening race, I started slow and the leaders took off. I finally got into it but the gap was made and I couldn't close it and ended up 5th out of like 15. Sunday went better as I got a better start. Actually my start was about the same but the guy who won the day before decided to crash out after racing for about 30 seconds. Anyway, eventually John McKenna (a local buddy of mine) and I pulled away from everyone else. The McKenna opened up a gap on me and it looked like the finish order was set... until he flatted with half a lap to go. I felt sorry for a brief second but still caught him and won. The best part was having Amalia and Lisa cheering for me during both races. I think Amalia was more excited about my win than I was! Camilo was there too but still is too young to figure out what's up. My win is mostly attributable to my tires. I can go around corners faster than most my competitors and that helps make up for my lack of fitness.

So anyway, my cross season is probably over and I will concentrate on running over the winter.