Cyclocross is still happening?

After returning to the glorious land of Blacksburg we decided to have a bit of fun before classes started, aka ride our bikes a lot, and then some more, then made a little bit more. After 10 hours of ride time in 4 days go race some bikes in the wonderful land of North Carolina to top it all off.

The three amigos plus Grace departed way to early for normal people on Saturday to travel to the wonderful land of Asheville NC for the Biltmore Estate Cyclocross races which just so happened to be the last NCCX events of the season.

#sunrise looking into the magical land of North Carolina as seen through the van windshield

A photo posted by Gavin Kline (@gkline29) on Jan 17, 2015 at 4:38am PST

Then cyclocross happened, how did it go you ask? It happened much the way cyclocross does.

Some run ups were cleaned some hand ups were taken and given and races were raced. Mostly a sick edit was filmed and edited by Eli.

Hand up rig for the Pro 1/2 Race

Between myself, Luke and Eli results ranged from DFL to top 10. But during my DFL race on Saturday I had a moment of glory, on the last lap taking a beer hand-up close to the bottom of the run up a spectator offered to hold my hand-up so that I could ride the run up again, since I had already built up that reputation with the crowd, and then get it back on the return section of course. "Hold ma beer and watch this" was executed to near perfection even returned the empty to the original donors while riding by. If you're not winning, style it!

Sundays race went much much better except for running file treads and crashing a lot! Ended up 15th but was in the lead on the second lap, crashes and fading hard towards the last lap didn't help staying up there. Still a very stoke worthy performance compared to the day before. I am uncertain if it was that the Hometown Mfg orange plaid jersey was a faster of a kit, or the course suited me much better, or the Chinese food Saturday night before attributed to the improvements anyways it was a blast!

This dude with the push was the real MVP
Taken by Grace Woodard

Then we came back home and raced "Cyclocross" or something like that.

To be fair TJ won the first race fair and square 

More shenanigans shall ensue and be embellished on this silly blog as the season progresses

Somehow the three of us didn't get in trouble all weekend?
Taken by Grace Woodard

Taken by Grace Woodard

That's all I've got for now, till next time shredders.

The Blog Lives Again, and Its 2015 and Things

After a long period of not even acting like I have a blog its time to bring back the stories hyperbole sarcasm and general goofiness. Might throw some super serious alliteration at all of you too, but that remains to be seen.

The Good The Cool and The New

Look at it! I spent a solid 20 minutes redoing some pictures and formatting, that is some effort right there!

I've got a gopro now and more mounts than I know what to do with so expect some sweet quote un quote edits.

Kind of like that but hopefully a bit more exiting and not with Sail in the background since I can actually download cool music in Blacksburg.

Other things to look out for: Straight silly somewhat sarcastic Strava ride names,

A few other super rad things are in the works but those are yet to be announced..... Super secret stoke

   Whats Next? How About An Absurdly Approximated Race Calender 

Dates? Obligations? Here is what I may show up to throughout 2015

NCCX #14 and #15 Cat 3 this weekend

At least most of the ACCC Road Season as A rider

• Feb 14-15 – NC State (RR/RR) 

^ This might get skipped for some extra free radness, the Pantani Ride! Which is really the only "race" "event".... fun as hell time on bikes the whole year 

• Feb 21-22 – William & Mary (RR/CRIT)
• Feb 28 – UNCW (CRIT/Poss. RR)
• Mar 01 – UNC (CRIT)
• Mar 07 – Mason (RR/Poss. ITT)
• Mar 08 – Maryland (CRIT)
• Mar 14-15 – SPRING BREAK

About here I'm going to start looking for XC races....

• Mar 21-22 – Duke (RR/TTT/CRIT)
• Mar 28-29 – Navy (RR/TTT or ITT/CRIT)
• Apr 04-05 – WVU (CRIT/RR)
• Apr 11-12 – ASU (RR/CRIT/Poss. TT)
• Apr 18-19 – VT ACCC ROAD Championships (RR/TTT/CRIT)
• Collegiate Road Nationals in Asheville!  

Summer:

• Some legit fast XC races with big time competition! 
• Maybe a 12 hour race on a duo team? (I already have a partner to crush a coed division if you catch my drift) 

The massive event that is one of the east coast highlights of the NUE series The Shenandoah Mountain 100! If I decided it was worth it to work for a completely different kind of fitness right at the start of the collegiate mountain bike season it would mark my fourth consecutive year riding the beast. Hopefully the fourth finish too!

Fall:

Collegiate MTB Season Duh....

Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships at Snowshow WV! (Everything is on the east coast 2015!!) I might get really ballsy and borrow a big boy bike to ride the Downhill and Dual Slalom events and go for the individual omnium? This is a very maybe, but trying really hard to crush it during XC and STXC are very real!

Collegiate CX or mostly finding cool VACX and NCCX races to go to with a few starts for the school...

Then for the third in a few months Cyclocross Nationals Championships in Asheville NC! (that would be 2016 but whatever deal with it, I do what I want on my blog) Some collegiate racing, a U23 race, and very maybe jump in the elite race! Why not go big or go home right? Or in Austin's case get worried about some trees and try to cancel it? Too soon?

Till next time... Keep it dirty ya'll