{"id":1475,"date":"2009-11-02T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2009-11-02T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T14:38:55","slug":"cross-the-way-races-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=1475","title":{"rendered":"Cross the Way Race #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend found us in Nashville, TN for races #3 and 4 of the ongoing Cross the Way series.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, we arrived to a soggy course. It had rained for about 12 or the previous 24 hours, so the mud was fierce. It’s OK, though… I like mud. Once again, only one other woman showed for the 1\/2\/3 race. It was Ashley James, a strong collegiate rider from my previous team- Team Kenda Tire. She finished several places ahead of me at USGP the follwoing weekend, but I was hoping that my mud-wrangling abilities would play to my favor this weekend.<\/p>\n

When the race started, I took the lead through the sloppy\/of camber section. Soon after, we went into the woods, down a large hill, then up a really steep, chunky run-up. I was feeling hopeful until the next section- a loooooong, slick drag of a hill. With my 40T single chainring, I found myself overgeared. She spun past me while I was grinding at somewhere around 40rpms…<\/p>\n

No excuses, though. I’m pretty sure that even if I’d had better gearing, should still would have taken me out at that point.<\/p>\n

Following the hill, the course went back through some hairpins and more mud. For the first two laps, I was able to sucessfully close the gap between the two of us in that part of the course, but the 3rd & 4th times up the hill were to be my downfall. I was toast.<\/p>\n

Being Halloween, I almost rode in costume, but then decided that I’d go partial costume for the race, then change into the rest of it afterward. There were some good ones…<\/p>\n

\"Taking<\/a>
Taking a beer handup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"On<\/a>
On the 3rd lap, I decided to cut my losses and get a mud dollar from the hecklers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"mino\"<\/a>
Minotaur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"marsha\"<\/a>
Dirty Schoolgirl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"granny\"<\/a>
Granny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Yes,<\/a>
Yes, I was a little bit cold...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"shaggy\"<\/a>
Shaggy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"troy\"<\/a>
Not really sure what Troy Tucker is... other than fast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend found us in Nashville, TN for races #3 and 4 of the ongoing Cross the Way series. On Saturday, we arrived to a soggy course. It had rained for about 12 or the previous 24 hours, so the mud was fierce. It’s OK, though… I like mud. Once again, only one other woman…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-nN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}