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  • "Here's to the slow rider of cross"
  • codybrennan
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    Love this:

    ‘Here’s to the slow rider of cross
    The mainstay of the field
    Who wields
    The bike towards inevitable loss

    Here’s to the slow rider of cross
    Oft-ignored by the lens
    Save if in the background of a leader
    Riding past the pit pens
    With no option of a spare
    But no care
    For the kilos of mud accumulated
    And though with fewer laps
    The passion is sated
    And the effort
    And exhaustion
    And commitment
    Matches the podium grabbers

    Here’s to the slow rider of cross
    Far from being the dross
    Rides it like a boss
    Even if only in the mind
    But finds
    That lap
    Just there
    That corner
    The
    Perfect
    Line

    Here’s to the slow rider of cross
    The stutter remount
    After multiple step count
    Between hurdles
    Through the mud
    And the crud
    Discovering the art of the slow topple
    The stall
    Then the fall
    The pick-up
    With a smile
    A grin that says
    This is **** awesome

    Here’s to the slow rider of cross
    You are legion
    You are me
    You are two laps down and still digging in
    You are cheered on
    That cowbell is for you
    You pinned it on
    And you
    Are a rider of cross’

    Not my words, they’re here:

    Here’s to the slow rider

    Cycling needs more poetry/prose.

    steve_b77
    Free Member

    Sums cross up for me

    davidjey
    Free Member

    That’s ace.

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    cloudnine
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    Only 2 laps down.. doing well

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    Like.

    sparksmcguff
    Full Member

    Made me smile

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    Only 2 laps down.. doing well

    It’s only 15 minutes into the race….. 😳

    ferrals
    Free Member

    Haha thats good. good blog too.

    thenorthwind
    Full Member

    Very good.

    Ioneonic
    Full Member

    Like

    13thfloormonk
    Full Member

    Liked that. Gives me hope as well, I started a thread on here about training for some cross races this winter, then immediately fell off and tore a bunch of tendons in my wrist, so have accomplished zero training so far 😳

    Wookster
    Full Member

    That’s great!

    twinklydave
    Full Member

    Approved 🙂

    Garry_Lager
    Full Member

    Excellent

    Riding past the pit pens
    With no option of a spare

    That’ll be me on Sat 🙁

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Really like that. And not entirely #cross-specific, for all us slow riders of enduro, xc and dh

    qwerty
    Free Member

    Excellent.

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    Brilliant, just shared it across FB CX pages and Twitter CX big hitters so hopefully break his blog server 😉

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