Another one of those races that makes you wish we had mud instead of sand. Well, at least sand doesn't get your dirty, and it takes a similar finesse. Good thing it doesn't build up and add weight to the bike like mud. I hear the cow likes any non-standard conditions, due to genetic abilities gained from ancestors growing up in pastures.

After the threats of incorporating the "long sandy hill run up" from last year, the promoter decided he couldn't deal with the emotional catastrophy of the racers, the pain on the faces, and the extreme entertainment factor. Also, the trucker training was doing trucker bomb drive by target practice on that road. I hear they were scoring roughly 98% all day. We would have been a mess.

The unpaid, unofficial, understaffed, and energetic button pushing photographer captured our sad faces and feeble sand riding technique. He must have gotten another billion images. I think he has one of those extra long rolls of film in his Brownie. Don't they make a 136 exposure roll now?

Remember to give credit to Jeff Freeman, if you use these images. We don't want to miss the rest of our cx series due to copyright infringements, and he deserves the advertizing for his work. (Maybe you could crash in front of him next race, but make sure he's watching first)

http://cyclocross.smugmug.com/Sports/Cyclocross/20091017-NMC-Series-3-Me...

Check results at http://newmexicosportsonline.com/home/home.aspx , the same place you registered, if that's where you registered (don't go back to the registration table looking for results, it's been put away in the cavern that the promoter calls a trailer of a thousand tortures.

Moo