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CX Race: 2016 SoCalCross #12 CACX Champs at The Greek

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Channel: Ben Goyette · 2017 · Sports

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It was finally a course with a substantial amount of climbing! Mountain bikers should have been advantaged here right? Right? Well not me on that day.

I've mentioned it a few times already, but I don't train for cyclocross. Cyclocross is part of my training. I use the race to replace an high-intensity workout in my week. Which is 5 of 6 MILLION times more fun than doing awful intervals. Plus it trains your racecraft technique and how to run over shit. These are all useful skills for XC and that's why I think every mountain biker should get into cyclocross racing.

But that means the race can sometime fall at the worst possible moment in my training calendar. Such as the end of a big training block where the legs don't want to cooperate anymore.

So I was dragging my ass the whole race. The first lap immediately felt like a last lap.

I just kept going with what I had, dug deep and picked up a few positions toward the end. It was a rather lonely race, but the course at The Greek Theater is always a blast to lap.

And to really kill my legs, I finished this at the sprint for 4th but came up short. I got 5th.

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