So I think I’ve officially changed my mind about doing the Dirty Dozen. In it’s place, I’m going to do the Murrysville cyclocross race. Yes, I skipped out on every single ‘cross practice this fall, and I’ve riding Dirty Dozen hills religiously for the last three months, but it comes down to this–there will be plenty of people at the Dirty Dozen. It will happen next year. I can ride the hills any time I want to. But a cyclocross race in western PA? A rare bird, that. And if I want to see more races here in the future, then I should show up and do this one.

So I’ll be cramming during the next two weeks. I’m planning on doing one more set of DD hills tomorrow during lunch, then I’ll spend my time riding in the parks, working on my dismounts (and re-mounts). I’m sure the race will hurt, a lot, but that’s okay–it’s the idea, right?

Posted on 13 November 2008