Bear X'ing - October 10, 2016   Cross-giving weekend. What a great weekend it was! A long weekend, featuring two cx races - one on the lower mainland and another on Vancouver Island. I rangled up my mutually-cycling-crazed partner to do both races that weekend, as well as have a home cooked Thanksgiving meal....and I have NEVER before made a turkey dinner. EVER....

Queen's Cross - October 8, 2016 Mud. I had been dreaming about it, wishing about it, wanting it...since the end of last year's cyclocross season, I had anticipated this year's cyclocross season. Well, with Queen's CX in New Westminster, I got what I asked for. Mud. Copious amounts of mud. Along with the mud, though, came the rain. Buckets and barrels of rain....

This last weekend I got to experience a new course, for me, the Vanier Park cyclocross course. A lot of people were excited for this race because: It's easy to get to (being in the city) It's more of a crit than a cyclocross course (it's fast) It's well organized with good attendance of spectators and racers There's some good prizes to be...