Cyclocross Training Paln

Just finished a new Cyclocross Training Plan.

5 different plans to make you fast this Cx season. You can see a bit more

at http://www.cyclocrosstraining.blogspot.com/

   What I feel like when I am racing CX...A narrative with myself at nationals...

2006 CycloCX nationals. 

            "Dude this is nuts..120 studs all around me ....5 rows back from Johnathon Page and Ryan Trebon...7 rows of guys behind me. I wish I had some UCI points to get me a bit further up at the start...Ah it doesn't matter..5^th row is about where you belong.  58 guys in front of you lets just see if I can finish 59^th like my race number..The gun fires my mind is blank but totally on task.  Stay upright and out of trouble.  Push your elbows out...Stay up and move up.  I am grabbing at every little pocket before another rider fills it.     70 are behind me and all believe they should have started on the front row.  50 guys in front of me trying to get to the first corner at the front....Don't wreck dude it will be over before this thing gets started.  Elbows and wheels are everywhere...As we fly through the first corner I almost close my eyes.  It looks like a blender of legs, gears, mud, and a rainbow of jerseys.  Mid-way into the first lap we are already 45 seconds back from the leaders.  Guys are grabbing the inside line on every corner just trying to move up and get into the action.  I keep telling myself to pedal hard and rest.  Each chance I get I move up a few spots. We hit the run-up.  It is so loud!!!!!!  I can barely see with all the people and noise.  It is like being in a tunnel. Everything was so cloudy.  The Noise powered my legs all the way up the hill.... I can't tell if I am breathing. They are screaming Chris Horner's name. We are shoulder to shoulder.   I remount my bike at the top right behind Chris Horner...well, maybe he was only there because he had a technical earlier...but still...it's CHRIS HORNER on a bike and I'm with him!

That was one of the coolest moments I have ever had on the bike.  I can't believe I am here.  For the next 9 laps I was in awe.  Lap after the lap the crowd and the racers didn't back down.  I raced for 60 minutes into 29^th place.  There wasn't a racer in front of me that didn't deserve to be there.  I was able to race from Gun to bell-lap.  One year ago I would have lapped myself.  One year ago I would have been 100^th in this field.