Randy Arellano's Blog – October 2008 Archive (2)

I started out great. From the gun (err... whistle), I got up into the lead group and sat in about 5th. The first lap I felt pretty good and was working well staying in the back of the lead group. Unfortunately, that didn't last long.



I (stupidly) decided to back off the pace a little on the second lap because I felt I was going a little too hard and I wanted to have something left for the 3rd (and last) lap in case I needed to outsprint someone for a top 10. Well, deciding to back… Continue

I had a good weekend of CX racing at the UCI KTR Double Cross in Springfield Twp this past weekend (Sep. 21-22, 2008) at the Springfield County Park.



Day 1:

The start of CX season is always very nervous. You have the mix of roadies coming off of a long road race season. Then you have some MTBers continuing there MTB season (possibly training for Iceman). CX racing is such a hard/suffering form of racing. And when you mix in the roadies and MTBers all together, you sometimes get… Continue