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Cheshire Cross/Orchard Cross Race Reports

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This is my eleventh season of racing cross, and I still like it enough that I have to hold myself back from racing doubles every weekend.  This weekend I failed, because Cheshire Cross is close and awesome and Orchard Cross is far and awesome. Cheshire Cross Race Report  I've been coming here for a few years now, because there's some really unique and fun woods trail, and the best grassroots rideup in New England . I was predicted to finish 5th out of 19 (!!), so I thought it would be a good chance try being a real cyclocross racer and start the race FAST instead of my usual technique of burying myself deep in traffic, picking my way forward slowly, and then using my steady forward progress to convince myself that I totally could have done better if I had started better. Of course I neglected to remember that starting HARD means you should warm up for real, and maybe not panic and eat a gel right before the start. So I blasted off the line into 3rd wheel, rode most o