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Race Season Timing Woes and the Bike Racer Mindset (California need not apply)
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The race season in the north east kicked off this past weekend. It was in the 20s. I've regulatory raced in the teens, and post photos here of that great time we raced in an ice storm on the front edge of a noreaster. The blurriness is because I was hypothermic and shaking uncontrollably. The season here doesn't really break from summer so we race from march (feb this year) into september. But those sept races have been lost to cross, which is encroaching on august. Mostly it's about about available calendar dates, and other disciplines. For me I don't do those races any longer, so my season won't likely kick off until the first hill climb in May. I've long had this conversation, as to why we didn't race from April to October, but mostly promoters looked at me like I was an idiot. I lost track of how many races were canceled or series marred due to early season snow storms. I guess it is what it is.
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