Another Year in the Books

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The SERC series ended this past weekend in Fontana, NC.  The promoters couldn’t have picked a better venue for the series to end on.  A treacherous 2 mile climb filled with switchbacks and covered in wet rocks and roots tested your wits, while fresh benchcut with slightly off camber sections littered with wet rocks and roots, tested your ability.  All this made for an exciting weekend and a good test for the big wheels and the Bontrager Jones ACX tires.  I had a good race taking 2nd in the Expert 19-29 solidifying my 2nd overall for the series.  Add the fact that I received my Semi-Pro upgrade and it makes for a season that not many could complain about.

So another year of XC racing has come and gone, now it is time to sit back and analyze on all the good and the bad things that happened throughout the year, what to work on before next season, and to get ready for some good ol’ fashioned cross racing.  Now down here in the south we may not have the below freezing temperatures, snow, ice, and an abundance of mud that some of my teammates in the northern and midwestern regions receive, but the competition is stiff, the races are fast, and the cowbell carrying spectators are growing every year.  This, our third year of the Bama Cyclocross series, http://www.bamacross.com/, looks to be a little bigger and a little badder, as the whole cyclocross thing is beginning to catch on down here in the south.