Granite Bay Cyclocross Video

Here is a video from the Granite Bay Cyclocross race on 12/21/2008. This is the "C" group which started around 9:45AM.

You can see me power through the sand pit at about 5:30 into the video!


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Granite Bay Cyclocross 12/21/2008

Here are some photos from the cyclycross race out at Granite Bay today. I'm not in any of these photos as the guy who took them raced in my group. Hopefully I'll be able to dig up a few photos of myself later as others post them. It was a fun race. We got soaking wet, muddy and sandy! The course was great. A huge thanks to Riche Maile and http://sacramentocx.com/ for putting together another great course. Also thanks to the Sacramento Golden Wheelmen for hosting the race. It was indeed a true cyclocross experience today.

I started off in the front row, managed to hang onto 3rd place for about the first half of the first lap, then had to slow down a bit. Didn't want to blow up too soon. There were two good straight away sections, and the rest of the course was tight, twisty, muddy, and sandy singletrack! There was one huge sand pit which I managed to power through on 2 laps. Dabbed on one lap, and on the final lap I just knew I didn't have enough gas left to power through. So I shouldered the bike and ran. At the end of the race I quickly changed out of my muddy, sandy wet clothes. That was a huge struggle in and of itself. Glad I brought some hot tea for an after race warmup! I had a blast and am really starting to dig cyclocross!

This photo right here, pretty much sums up how we all looked after racing today.

Granite Bay MTB

I took Lex out to Granite Bay at Folsom Lake on Sunday afternoon for a little mountain biking. I've never been on the trails out there but had heard they were pretty mellow. As we arrived we were amazed at how low the lake was.



We were able to jam around the huge parking lot which is normally full of huge monster trucks and boat trailers. Now if you want to launch a boat you have to drive waaaay down to the shoreline past all the boat ramps and do a beach launch. The speed limit is 5mph on the lake so there are pretty much only fishermen out there now. Anyways we had fun riding up and down the boat ramps, jumping off some docks, and riding along the bottom of the lake which is usually 20-30' underwater.

Lex had to rip through a few puddles of course!



I didn't get any pictures on the singletrack, but Lex did great. He even chased after some guy who rode past us and said hello. He only had to get off and walk a couple of sections. Looking forward to going out there again soon.