The season officially ended for Minnesota today. The course was awesome and pre-riding it, it suited me. Power course with a tricky sand section. I rode the sand a couple of times and couldn’t make it. My aero riding position with being in the drops was putting too much weight on the front tire. I tweaked the position and went into the sand really fast with no weight on my hands and put them on the hoods and rolled through it. I did it 10 more times in warm-ups to dial it in. The A race had 40+ guys in it. Everyone comes out for states. I got a horrible start and had to run the sand the 1st time because it was a cluster and then got into a groove and started chasing down the pack. I went from group to group and hooked up with Mikey P and we worked together and got into a group of 4 of us and we hooked up with Super* a few laps later. So we had 3 crossniacs and then the fun started. I attacked a couple of times to try to break up the group because it seemed like the only guys working were the 3 of us. The attacks cracked the group into 4 again and Mikey and I worked over another 35+ guy in the group…he was strong and a serious threat. With 1 lap to go I attacked the group on the stairs and opened a gap and never looked back….I crossed the line and soon after Mikey P rocked the next place. It is so much fun working as a team in cyclocross. I ended up with the silver medal and Mikey P took the bronze in the 35+. Good work. 12th overall for the day. The coolest part of the race was the stairs - there were a few laps when both sides of the stairs were packed with people and they were yelling and drinking beer and chaos…they only left a little bit of room on each side..it was like alp du huez tour de france style…thanks everyone for the encouragement on the course…it really helps

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