Topic: cycling
So, first race. East Village Cross in the East Village of Davenport. And I hurt right now, pain just kind of permeating my whole corpus. Not a corpse quite yet though; I didn't ride that hard.
The day started out a little rough in that I bent a rim about 100 yards after I started. It seems my skills at bunny-hopping curbs could use some work. So, my blood pressure rose as I carried my bike back to my car. I drove home and picked up my trusty mountain bike. Is it true that you can't break the things you don't care so much about breaking? Kind of like you cannot lose a junky golf ball?
So, I came back with the mtb in time to see the first race. I took some decent video, which I will try to hammer into a litle documentary. First time for me to use the camera; I had some problems in starting and stopping the recording. I'll piece it together with Windows Movie Maker, but I'd like to snip ends from some of the video clips. Anyone know a good easy freeware video editor that will do that?
And the race I rode was the Cat 4 only race. 35 minutes plus two laps, which took me about 53 minutes and 30 seconds. I did six laps. The first half of the field at least did eight laps. Some did seven. I don't know how many did six. What I feel pretty good about is that I made the first lap before the lead women made up the minute gap between my start and theirs. Not so bad in my books. I also usually ride the shortest race; today, I went farther. The low point was when I didn't do such a good job on a bunny hop in the "rock garden", a strange little set of flagstones with a log in the middle. I hopped the log but took a tumble after, wacked the left side of my head really good. Score one for wearing a helmet. I'll be visiting my chiropractor soon!
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