The start of the single speed was pretty slow. Three of us got away pretty quick and I didn't want to push the pace so that we did not do any extra laps, (40min is long enough). After 4 laps I attacked and maintained a little gap till the end. What I like about Boss Cross is that they have leaders jerseys.
I was getting sore, back, hands, neck, all the symptons of a hard cx race. The open race had 27 starters, lots of fast dudes. I lined up 3rd row and crushed it to 5th position into the windy/off camber hole shot. I told my teammates if they were more than 5 riders back at the start, to get off and run it, Wink in front of me did this, but I decided to ride it. Immediately a rider next to me lost momentum and t-boned me, hooking bars and knocking me off my bike. The 27 rider field past me and I was in last. I lost my bar end and tape as you can see below.
I immediately put my head down and started passing people. Barriers and windy turns made it easy. Through the sand I past 3 dudes. I made it up to a group of 4 or 5 riders and the leader had already put in a pull and no one would pull through. I made a bad decision to ride really fast and pass them all, only to not be able to slow down before the next turn which had a concrete wall. Shoulder, finger and knee all took the hit, if that wasn't worse, I also caused another rider to stop which sucks. Its a bad feeling when you negatively effect another riders race by a mistake like this. A very dumb mistake. Looking back I could have easily been patient, waited till the barrier run up and pass there, or just had my brakes adjusted to slow down better, but I didn't. It sucked. My race was pretty much over at this point. I managed to pass a few people later in the race and finish 20th out of 27.
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