racing at Bucknell university this weekend was very good. i finally moved up to C and got new number-386- i think its a very sexy number combination. i had a 38 mile road race and i felt great until, oh, maybe, the last 200 yards, when some assholes from RIT thought they could sprint, but they couldnt. they both collided with each other and caused an epic field crash. i crashed, my sorta friend Adam from UCONN crashed and broke his face/nose (he and i used to race D together and he beat me in the Lehigh xc race), a newly made pal Jordan from Penn State crashed and broke both wheels, and my good friend and teammate Jeff crashed and broke part of his skull and his nice front wheel.
Jeff is ok, but he gets to miss school for a week and wear a dopey neck brace, and he will probably not race again for a while. it kinda sucks because he was one of/the main reason(s) i moved up to C- Pitt needed another C rider. However, after that epic crash, i got on my bike (first i made sure everything was there) and said, "fuck all of you guys..." and sprinted the 200 yards to the finish. i ended up in 16th which was better than i thought i could do, but Jeff and I (and UCONN Adam and PSU Jordan) were all pretty much up front - i was in the 3rd row back- and we all were going to take a better finish. Whatever. now its on to mtb racing next weekend (i hope), as Yale is too far away and i hate long car rides, and Jeff will no longer race the road race at Mt. Joy so i have no reason to do that. im probably driving home and doing the Fair Hill xc race sunday and then driving back to the 'burgh. im feeling real good about it too, as i think im in much better shape this year and i recently got some more skillz- - kinda like that but bigger logs and on my rigid SS. i hope i do better than last year where i broke my chain more than halfway through and had to walk 5 miles in the brutal heat and then got a dnf.
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