The Ride Sally Ride cat 4 crit was marred by a serious crash, involving Charlottesville’s own Jake King. I neither heard nor saw the crash, but it left Jake with severe facial lacerations and potentially a broken jaw. The accident happened fairly early in the race, and we went past the scene several times, until with 17 laps to go, a bell was ringing and the chief ref was shouting 1 lap to go; they had to bring an ambulance in for poor Jake…
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Race Report 6/6 Ride Sally Ride
Monday, June 8th, 2009Superior Cross
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I raced the Superior Cyclocross race up in Cathaprin VA on Saturday, and had, for me, a pretty good race. I was able to snag a spot on the second row at the line and was determined to have a strong start. At first, it didn’t look good as my wheel was between two other riders and I was completely boxed in. I managed to get out some sort of inarticulate grunt that may have been taken for “in between,” but in any event the rider to my left moved over just enough and I shot through, managing to be 5th wheel going into the dirt.
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