#321: CX, part 2?
I haven’t touched my X-Fire since the Outdoors Inc race in mid-October… in fact it is still rocking the Michelin Jets from that race and has been sitting up in the trainer room (real estate agent had called it a bonus room…) since then. A few things had got in the way, namely mountain biking, road riding, and a little thing about getting married.
In most cyclocross areas of the country, I would imagine that ‘cross season is wrapping up or over by now, but in Tennessee, there are races until late February in Knoxville. During January, there is a pair of weekends in Columbia (south of Nashville), a Chattanooga weekend, a Cross the Way weekend (Nashville), and the state championship weekend in Johnson City.
What I can do, remains to be seen. My January promises to be a tough one at work, so I probably will have to race when I can. All of the weekends are compelling in their own ways (Columbia and Cross the Way are well run and day tripable from Memphis); I lived in Chattanooga for 5 years before Memphis; and JC is the state championship race (although you couldn’t get any further away within Tennessee.) And then there is Southern X. I raced it last year, but I am about 90% sure that I will not be able to make the date since it would mean taking off Friday and heading to North Georgia. Andrea does plan to race it and looks to improve on her heartbreaking 2nd place.
The road season for 2010 is still a bit fuzzy, but I am looking forward to joining a solid group of Cat 3’s on the Marx & Bensdorf cycling team. We should do well and take our game up the Cat 1/2 by the end of the season.
Andrea and I ordered a pair of Trek Madones with SRAM Red. With one of our own the regional rep for Trek, it was pretty obvious who would be our bike sponsor. Maybe if we step up our game, they will give us the frames…. We are looking to sell a couple of frames/ complete bikes.
- 54 cm (medium) Blue RC7 (2008 model, blue paint job, frame/fork)
- 52-53? cm BH Connect (Red/black, 2009 model, SRAM red build)
- 58 cm Felt FC (Black/grey, 2008 model, SRAM Red build or bare frame)
I will probably make a more detailed post about the Felt in January, but if you are interested in any of these, let me know (website@roadcx.net). Make a reasonable offer.
