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Thanks for a great race SCW.
I just watched my helmet cam footage and realized that I yelled “Jerks!” rather angrily on the second lap at the mud turn. I was seriously going for a more lighthearted chiding, like a reverse heckle.
On the third lap I hit the muddy sink hole that had been gunning for me since the pre-ride on Friday.
While I can’t say I condone the course modifications, I understand that I’m racing 4B, which should probably be relabeled “Open” or “Exhibition”.
Anyway, great race, and I’m sorry if I sounded too crotchety on the mud turn.
Thank you South Chicago Wheelman for putting on an amazing event. great course, post race shower, buffet, rooms and pay outs too !!!…man, I could get used to those luxuries… You guys have set the bar high !!
Great race. Great weather. Great fun.
I can live with the course changing for the 4B guys (markers being moved, muddy area mysteriously getting muddier, people crowding the course until its only wide enough for one rider), but not really a big fan of someone yelling “BOOOOOO!” in my face at the mud pits though after yelling at me to run it. Lame.
What a great day to be outdoors on a bicycle! And a great day for CX, too. Thank you to: the South Chicago Wheelman, the Hilton Indian Lakes, and to all those officals who make the Chicago Cyclocross Cup. What a fun and enjoyable event to participate in. Further thanks to the more than 15 members of the Elmhurst Bicycle Club who rode out from Elmhurst to heckle me on. Yea!! Oh, and BTW 3 laps this week.
Every one of the ladies in the 4B race rode the mud section on every single lap. Every single one. Awesome.
how do we best let Indian Lakes Resort know they had a grand venue *and weather* for todays race? no doubt a good time was had by all – thanks!
You could call them or email them at this link.
There was a guy who was at Indian Lakes who had just arrived from Belgium. He was planning on going into the city but decided to watch the bike race. He was very surprised to find the bike race. He was taking pictures and mentioned that he might get an article into the Belgian press.
Great course. Great race. Great fans. Many thanx to every single person who made it out (even those who ‘customized’ the mud pit for the 4B’s) to make it such an awesome day.
BTW, I found a helmet in the parking lot at the end of the day. Contact me with make, model and color and I’ll do my level best to get it back to you. Maybe next week at Woodstock?
Just curious: Did the 4Bs do three or four laps? In the pre race talk they mentioned four but I only counted three while I was riding. I’m not complaining, just need to know if I have to start watching the counting segments on Sesame Street again!
4b’s did 4, unless you were lapped, then you did 3. Toward the end of lap 3, I was kind of hoping I would get lapped.
Yeah I talked to that guy too! I told him Sven Nys was coming next week and he got excited till I said I was joking. Then Ted Burger and him started talking in Dutch and I swear they were seconds away from making a work bench, a rocking chair and a pair of wooden shoes out of some scrap wood behind the club house! (I secretly wish I was Ted B)
Get Race! Tons of fun!
XOXO
Cross has changed this year.
Oh sure, it’s still a sporting event with plenty of riders training, racing, watching the standings, but the heart and soul of cross is now firmly placed in the 4B race. The last, lowest cat race of the day: the one that ends just before dark.
If you look even closer you may start believing the essential qualities of our sport are in the last 10 or so riders of the 4B race: the guys that come week after week, the ones with unanswered prayers for a top 10 finish, the ones that never give up no matter how steep the odds, how deep the suffering, how crappy the bike. They have become champions to us.
Riding through “Bacon Alley” is a powerful experience. All over the course you hear the roar as rider after rider makes his way through what is generally the toughest spot in the race. Then it’s your turn and you feel a strange mix of vitality and embarrassment: so many smiling, cheering faces focused solely on you as you make your way through the bacon. You’re suffering so deeply but have inhaled and swallowed this giant invigorating mass of unique love that you are transformed to a place where age, imperfection and mortgage don’t exist. You crave more and won’t quit no matter what your body tells you.
It stays with you long after the race is over. It’s a glow that may dim over time but never extinguishes. Sure, there were cash payouts and lots of people won their entry fee, but that glow you so deeply earn suffering through Bacon Alley is priceless.
Aye! Aye! And May we continue to receive the blessing due us..many half-full beer cans!! Thanks all for stickin’ around for us B’s!
bravo supergirl, bravo.
Amen Super Girl. And to whoever took the bacon wrapped Twinkie with a Twizzler shoved in it…CHEERS!
i love you guys :’)
Fantasierijk!
Cheers to that. What’s also so amazing is the sadness that runs through the crowd when the last rider has gone through bacon alley for the day. We all stare at each other in disbelief that its over and wonder… why can’t this last race be longer?
Amen, SG. This is my second year of CCC. I ride (can’t call what I do racing, yet) the 40+ races. Because our 40+ races are so early in the morning, we usually don’t stick around until the end. This week, however, I could go home to Glen Ellyn and then come back to watch the 4′s at ILR. WOW! In 26 years, I’ve never had so much fun (or even had much fun, really) watching a bike race. Bacon Alley was literally over-the-top during the 4B’s (I posted a video on ILR vids & pics). I wish I had realized what a party the 4′s are earlier in the season. The next two weeks I’m going to race the 40+ and then come back for the 4A’s, then be a SuperFan for the 4B’s (I found an exciting, as-yet-untried-as-far-as-I-know food product for handups at Costco yesterday).
I woke up to the Monday morning voicemail I imagined was going to be bad. The one were ILR says thanks but we’ve decided to go in another direction.
I was wrong.
Fat Tire sold 1200 beers out of their kiosk. The buffet sold $10K. Hotel booked 30 rooms. Most importantly, the Head Groundskeeper said their was “minimal” damage and it will not even need to be “treated”.
ILR is getting lots of emails from the cycling community saying thank you. Please keep these emails coming and tell your friends as well. It makes a big difference.
Thanks to everyone for coming out.
In all seriousness, what if we adjust the schedule a bit next year and make the 4B race 45 minutes?
That is awesome that Indian Lakes was happy with the event!! I like everything you wrote except… 45 minutes? Well, that will give me motivation to improve for next year in order to ride the 4A’s.
45 minutes will certainly provide some vomitous (probably not event a word) pictures.
I chatted with two of the Golf course marshals, one who seemed to be the head honcho, and they were both kind of bewildered at what was happening in front of them. Not bewildered in a bad way, just experiencing something out of their ordinary. One guy asked me what they were handing to the bikers and was a little confused by my response of, “bacon, twinkies, twizzlers, sausage, pretty much whatever.” Some of the golfers even stopped to check out CX.
Really cool that a golf course would do this, I made certain to thank them for their hospitality and for hosting the event.
I am so sad that I was too hungover to race (or even get out of bed).
I totally agree superG. I’m still a relative newbie but what I love so much about this sport is that every rider is just as important to The race as the next. I show up to every race by myself and don’t really know too many people or a have a team to call my own but I never feel any thing like an outsider. I’ve been offered rides, food, beer, high fives, and advice from people I don’t know. The only thing that you need to be in the “in crowd” here is the mental fortitude to go as hard as you can. P.S. Thanks to who ever it was that dubbed me daddy long legs (I’m 6’4″) coming out of the 2nd sand pit. Despite the pain I was experienceing at that particular moment I actually busted out laughing and continued to chuckle for the rest of the lap…ahhhh yes, life is good
Super G what about a windmill and/or a foam machine for next year?…
I love the windmill and the foam we should have such fun. BUT, I draw the line at doing situps at the end even for a new frame. On second thought, a custom Ti would motivate me. Hmmm…
The windmill could certainly add a new dimension to the team competition. I love the foam machine. Could that help keep our bikes clean during the race?
A huge thanks to everyone including the ILR for a great race. Bacon alley was an experience not to be missed, even though I didn’t get a twizzler/bacon-twinkie. To be honest, I usually don’t have enough oxygen in my brain to contemplate trying to grab something. Every race this year has been better than the next, and an enormous thanks to the fans, they are what make this so much fun.
To 4B’s being 45 min next year, maybe, but methinks we should probably just class up!
And yes to the foam machine. CX Rocks!
I want to downgrade as to race with the 4B’s. That looks like my kind of Love.
wayne simon
wayne – I am sure they would let us in, I’m game if you are!
I think they might let you race in the 4B race if you used a single speed bike with an insanely large gear and maybe no seat…..
A CX bike with road tires, that would be difficult!
here it is Wayne and Al… your weapon for the 4Bs
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/surly-pugsley/index.html
Tobie at North Central Cyclery in Dekalb sells Surleys http://www.northcentralcyclery.com/
If Wayne is doing the 4Bs. there is only one bike that he can ride:
http://homestore3.com/motclowmin.html
There was a guy riding around on one of those Pugsley’s at Carpentersville. Didn’t see him race it, though.
I have a friend with one – hmmm, can I find two? game on!
or – better yet, a track bike w/CX tires: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtbeer/3610827804/sizes/m/in/set-72157619307983045/
mine just so happens to be as old as we are, Wayne…game on?
Al,
I am working on the correct tool so doing 2 laps of any CX course will be super difficult, maybe my daughters 10″wheeled stingray. Barry does have a pugsley and I am sure he would allow me to borrow it.
The Chuck Norris of Chicago cycling should not be racing 4′bs….he should continue doing handups…
http://www.psimet.com/blog/2009/11/cyclocross/hacking-it-up/
SG – I told you at least a hundred times during the event but this was by far my favorite race of the entire season so far. I got a room, ate at the buffet, drank more than my share of Fat Tire and am still wishing it was a day longer.
I still think maybe we should have a 4″C” race – exhibition for anyone who wants to race at the end of the day (and most likely in the dark).
….and thankfully I have not upgraded so I can still dip into the 4B experience again on the riding side. Now….let’s go tear up Woodstock. Pre-emptive thanks to Doc K!
Rob,
I think you may have something there and I will attribute the idea to you. Next year, we should have 2 days for Indian Lakes!! Think about it… Indian Lakes wants to do this to make money. What better way to get more people to stay at the hotel than to make it a 2 day event! More meals, hotel rooms, and more overall fun.
Great idea, Rob.
I’ll bring lights (for the bike) and help break down the course! Night CX – bring it!