Bellafontaine race report

Well, I guess I'll risk Barry's wrath and post another race report.  Hopefully this one will be to his liking or I will be forced to respond with more "hostility" and "rage".  Bopp, Jason Wulff, and I drove up to St. Louis while Corey was picked up in Owensville by Bob.  Pete, of course, rode his bike to the race.

Due to lack of numbers the singlespeed race is now being run with the C race.  This race, it was determined to have the singlespeeders all start in the front row and everybody start at once.   When we were sitting on the line I was thinking how stupid that was, the course was fairly flat with just a few off-camber hills.  I knew I would get ran over at the start.

This time I did not wait until 5 minutes before the race to change to the sissy 22 cog, I did it with 30 minutes to spare.  How did that work out?  Well, the whistle blew and I didn't get the hole shot, but I did get into second place.  I looked back and had 5 yards on 3rd place so was relieved I wasn't holding up the field.  The rest of the singlespeeders were blocking for me!   I decided that since I was up there I wanted to get thru the tight corners in front so I wouldn't get stuck in the bottleneck.  A couple people went down in some of the turns including this guy...

so I was able to hold 2nd until half way thru the first lap.  I knew it wasn't going to last long, but I kept thinking "man, the people that don't know me probably think I'm a stud, this is awesome"!  That or they're thinking these d-bag went out too fast and is gonna blow up.  Well, I really didn't blow up, but 2 or 3 people passed me each lap. 

I wound up 5th in singlespeed and probably between 15 and 20th overall.  Pete recovered from his crash and passed me, Chris and Jason to finish either 2nd or 3rd?  The rivalry between Chris and Jason again came down to a sprint this time with another dude in the mix.  Chris came in 3rd with Jason 5th.  Corey was hurting from a mtn bike crash after doing a cyclocross race yesterday, but managed a mid pack finish.

Funny thing on my last lap, I was trying to mount my bike again after running the barriers, and I heard my name and someone that looked like Bob doused me with ice water.  Now, I'm thinking "Who was that, Bob is supposed to be racing.  Man, he better have had a mechanical because if he just quit, I'm gonna have Barry whoop his ass".   Well apparently he got disqualified in the middle of the race for using anabolic steroids.   I know what you're thinking "They're piss-testing now?  Shit!!!"

No, they could just tell.

What, you can't rip your shirt off and do a striptease in the middle of a cross race?  That's bullshit.   I think Bob is gonna have to have someone else register for him at the next race, and get a new number under an assumed identity.

Pete also raced the B race before riding home, but he can tell you about that... or not. I put some pictures here.

Let the flaming begin.