“Facking hell!”

Flatted out of the Granogue race today. The first tyre went flat on the first lap “prologue” loop. Or I should say, I flatted it on a rock. I did however, baby it to the pit, get the spare bike and proceed to flat that somewhere in the next lap.

No more bikes to ride, I jogged to the pit disappointed. (okay, Ethan tried to hand my A bike with a different wheel on it but, I was deflated mentally and just headed back to the car)

Race over.

Not even my new kit could protect me. From the rocks. I was even running a hard pressure! (over26 psi for me: 2bar! 2bar!)

I did get to buy a spare Dugast off of Stu from cyclocrossworld and I am spending yet another evening gluing up wheels. (thanks stu, you helped me out in a pinch.) I spooged a ton of Stan’s in the blown FMB in an effort to revive it. It seems to be holding air now so, I may just run it tomorrow. I dunno.

I cannot really comment on the race today. Botched my favorite race, missed some UCI points, wasted 2 brand new tyres! I am a bit of a headcase right now. Hard to take it all in stride. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning too.

The racers who raced looked awesome. Parbo had a rough start and pulled it together to have a good result. 6th place for him.