Craig Irving had this to report for his June
and July activities. If you're reading this in a feed reader, you will see two of these posts because I was too dumb to scroll down to the bottom of my email reader to see Craig's latest update. Sorry 'bout that.
I have a couple more rides to report, one full century (6/19) and one metric (6/26). I'm doing these singlespeed now since DK ate my second derailleur of the year. I can tell the blackbirds don't approve though. I think it's because they were displaced from their native land by early hipster settlers. I tried pedaling backwards to show them I wasn't riding fixed, but they had already mistaken my bike shorts for skinny jeans so it was too late and I was forced to ride through the relay kamikaze attacks for miles at a time.
So... Yeah.
He had this to say about July. I'm curious as to if the goat caught him or not, and what the goat did with him if that happened...
I've got two more rides to report. On the 4th of July I did a metric hitting many of the B roads in the area. After 50 miles my knees were bothering me and I skipped some steep rollers, but otherwise it was a good ride.
On July 16th I was down in Lathrop, MO to take part in the Farmhouse Classic. This was my first race since converting to singlespeed and it went well for the first 70 miles or so. After that the suffocating heat finally started wearing me down and I struggled to keep moving over the last two hours. Of the four bottles I had with me, two went over my head in a futile effort to keep cool. Our group was the last one in on the day at a little over 8 1/2 hours for 99.2 miles. The course was actually 93 miles, but of course it's not gravel racing unless you get lost. I figure I did at least point eight worth of warmup so I'm counting this as a full hundy.
One more thing... I can finally cross "get chased by a goat" off my gravel racing wish list.
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