Velo Club Moulin

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Inverkeithing Sufferfest

Is everyone trying to forget the pain then?

Sunday's Scottish Cyclocross race at Inverkeithing was one of the toughest, muddiest cx races I can remember. Not since the last race held at Sighthill Park in Glasgow has my bike weighed nearly as much as me at the end of a race.

Still, I secretly quite liked it. Whether it was the mud at the far end of the course that made a funny farty noise when you ran through it or the cheese and pickle toastie in the cafe that made me forget about the pain, I don't recall.

Results are still due, but conditions took out 33.3% of the plucky VCM starters. Toughen up for next time a bit lads.

On to Dundee next weekend. I hear that we're going to be using the track - just like the Roubaix World Cup round...

3 comments:

Dean said...

Excellent work.

Stanmer was the Southern VCM venue; me and the Horse racing, Lisa and Jones on heckle and beer hand-up duties. Good fun.

If you look closely on the Roubaix video you'll see a bunch of us at the top of the steeeeep, sloppy descent. A hideous/superb course. Would be amazing to race it...

martysavalas said...

s'more shots from Sunday here:
http://www.iseepeople.co.uk/scx/index.html

PureMTB Blog said...

Cyclocross is crazy!! it must be the toughest form of bike racing around.

checkout this cyclocross dvd on PureMTB its called the 9 ball diaries

http://www.puremtb.com.au/dvd/43-nine-ball-diaries-cyclocross.html

cheers