{"id":3928,"date":"2011-11-14T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2011-11-14T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:34:49","slug":"outdoors-inc-midsouth-cyclocross-chapionship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=3928","title":{"rendered":"Outdoors, Inc. MidSouth Cyclocross Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my previous post, I was somewhat nervous going into this race. I&#8217;d had a slightly fatiguing training week, and I was unsure of my ability to defend &#8220;home turf&#8221; against the women who could potentially show up from out-of-town. However, following suit to most of the other races I&#8217;ve been to this season, the women&#8217;s field (6 of us) was somewhat small (partially due to the schedule conflict that pulled a few Nashville women north to the USGP race in Louisville, KY).<\/p>\n<p>We lined up behind the group of &#8220;B&#8221; race men- cat 4s and beginner masters racers- and started a minute behind the group. I decided to take the initiative and dive into the wind head-first. I wasn&#8217;t sure how the other women would react, but it made for a good photo&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/start.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3929\" title=\"start\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/start.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It took a lap or two to work through the slowest of the male traffic, but I eventually put a sizable gap between me and the other women. The next few laps, I had the pleasure of both bleeding out of my eyes and hearing all of my coworkers\/friends cheering me on. Sponsorship gold, Jerry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/beaver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3930\" title=\"beaver\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/beaver-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/beaver-300x154.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/beaver.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(notice worlds most badass armwarmers in that shot)<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, some more, awesome photos will surface soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my previous post, I was somewhat nervous going into this race. I&#8217;d had a slightly fatiguing training week, and I was unsure of my ability to defend &#8220;home turf&#8221; against the women who could potentially show up from out-of-town. However, following suit to most of the other races I&#8217;ve been to&hellip;<\/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-11m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928"}],"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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}