The start of the Chicago cross race season begins with a relay race in Jackson Park. I ask a good friend and training partner Sean Metz of Sammy's elite road team to do the race with me. Sean is a cat 1 and I'm a cat 4 so our only option was to do the 30+ race. The start of our race was at 10:00 so we headed out at 7:30 hit the park at 8:30 got changed and rode a lap to warm up and see if we were still able to do barriers
After the short warm up we headed to the staging area where we were going to do a lemans style start.
Sean chose to do the first lap and run to the start. I waited in the transfer area with his bike, we had a great start and Sean came out of the gate in 4th place. Sean held his position till the first set of double barriers misstepped in the middle and tripped over the second falling and knocking the wind out of himself. After the mishap we had a smooth exchange and only dropped a few spots.
Then it was my lap and let's just say relays are fast there are no easy laps because you rest every other so it's all in every lap.
I had consistent laps not the fastest but I'm not the fastest and I know that. I was racing against a friend who was synced to the same lap as I was so that pushed me a bit thanks Chris Jensen . We ended up in 7th the first time I checked the results but the next time I checked we were tied for 14th with Chris. I feel we were in 7th but it was more of a fun race so I wasn't concerned where we placed. As I write this on Wednesday I'm still sore as shit and just able to walk without pain. Was it fun? Yes. Does it hurt? Hell Ya. I can't wait till the real season starts maybe this year I can podium. One can dream.
Thanks Sean Metz for trying to compensate for my slow ass.
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