This race was held at Ft ord and it was raining for 2 days leading up to the race, and it also rained hard on the morning of the race! This led to some serious flooding in some sections of the course and some really fun Cyclocross racing! The course was really good and it was a true test for everyone! I really felt I was ready to go, but I basically chopped a section of my finger off while setting up the course, and my friends mom past away, and all of this stress just brought me down a few notches. I felt really bad for my friend losing his mom. And the rain was really bad which also stressed me out. And my finger was seriously messed up, it was as bad a injury I have ever had setting up a course. Besides all that I really felt ready to go! I thought I could have a good race, before all these issues came up. I started super strong, had a little tuff spot, but then found my rhythm. I felt good threw some of the deep mud sections, and really dug deep to hold my position in the race! Then my cranks fell off literally! I broke my crank bolt and both cranks dropped to the ground, all on the far end of the course. I put the cranks in my pockets and tried to run, but it was not good. All this with only 1 & 1/2 laps left! I went from top 3 in the A series to 5th because of this problem. I was basically right where I needed to be before my mechanical, and then the cranks dropped off! Oh well, that's racing........ You can see from the photos the mud was really good in this race and I was trying my best..........
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