Meaningless Things

Category: Cyclocross

  • Mark’s National Champ Wrap Up

    To the individual who told me at Uncle Sam GP that these emails were spam and needed to stop, know that your comment emboldened me to double down and keep this going. To everyone else who’s said in person or sent by email compliments and encouragement (who well outnumbered the complainer), your comments kept this […]

  • Mark’s (but not CX’s) season closer – Noho day 2

    This update was initially posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc. Sunday morning at Noho felt more like Wicked Creepy weather: cold, rainy, and breezy. The morning racers squeezed the falling moisture into the turf, making a weird kind of mud in the field and keeping the upper terrace […]

  • Mark’s fiber-enriched CX updates – Noho day 1

    This update was initially posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc. Hurricane Nicole’s remnants made the drive over “interesting” and gave bikes left outside at hotels overnight a complimentary bath, but if you were in the field at Look Park today, you wouldn’t know. And when was the last […]

  • Mark’s CX Update – Return from the Cape

    This update was initially posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc. Another day of weather more appropriate for Virginia’s Blue Ridge GO Cross brought us the finale of the USCX series on the second day of the Really Rad Festival of Cyclocross. With Daylight Savings Time ending overnight, today’s […]

  • Mark’s CX Update – Down the Cape Edition

    This update was initially posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc. Based on a consensus of individuals asked during the Men’s Elite race today, I’m sending an edition out tonight covering the Pan Ams yesterday and today’s C1 race. Look forward to another edition tomorrow covering the C2! (Bwahahahaha) […]

  • Mark’s quasi-regular CX Update – CBRCX Series Finalie Edition

    This was originally posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc Yesterday’s Bethlehem Cup marks the finale of the CBRCX Series for 2022! If you thought that would be the end of my annoying emails, you are sorely mistaken because there’s six more weeks of ‘cross! (ish, date math […]

  • Mark’s Occasional CX Update

    This was originally posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc Or are they regular now? Still haven’t been banned from the mailing list yet so… First, an apology to those who raced at Salt City last weekend. Apparently, some races still take a week to post results online. […]

  • Mark’s occasional cyclocross update: the really short version

    This was originally posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc According to CrossResults no one raced this weekend. That means everyone should be well rested for Hometown this weekend! Register now, make Niles happy: https://www.bikereg.com/56994

  • Mark’s occasional CX update – Uncle Sam GP

    This was originally posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc Not enough people complained about the return of last week’s email, so here’s another one! Not sorry. This one is close to my heart as the co-RD for the two years prior to 2020. Nick and team did […]

  • Mark’s occasional CX update – River Valley CX Series, USCX Series, etc.

    This was originally posted to the CBRC mailing list. Find out more about the club at CBRC.cc Might as well just block me now, because I’m back by popular demand (someone actually requested this) with CBRC (and friends) conquests at the conclusion of the River Valley CX Series, the USCX races, as well as a […]