Valmont Cross Race with Friends

After the road biking season was complete, next was Cross racing season.  It seems like it could be fun on warm days, but I have never attempted to race Cross.  It's kind of a "cross" between road racing and mountain biking which usually involves riding through sand pits, jumping barriers, riding over grass and hills, and quite often mud and snow.  I guess those are the reasons it sounds less appealing.  They actually have a world class Cross course in Boulder now at Valmont Park and some of the best in the Nation were there to race this day.  Here are some pictures of some of my crazy teammates dressed as cow bells (which happen to be quite common at bike races).

This day I took Gavin with me and he and I enjoyed watching the races and another one of my teammates who was dressed as a sheep.  I love that Gavin has taken up biking and we have tried to take him several times to this same bike park when there are no races and he has always had a great time.

This is one of my teammates actually racing and with the pro men to boot!  He actually was disappointed because he got pulled with 2 laps to go from the race because he was a bit behind, but I think he still managed to place like 25th out of 45-50 pro men.  Not bad for your first pro race.  Nice job Brian!