It just gets better

See how yesterday was good? (because ANNA MEARES GOT IN TOUCH)

Today is almost better.

Because today, if you are somewhere where I am not, and you are a woman who likes to cross your cycles then you will be able to go to this All Women All Singing All Mud Slinging All Skills Building play session with Kate – podium darling and friend of women’s cycling. You just have to decide to.

(via DDCX, via Janet Hill)

Here’s the deal:

Hi all – I hope you can join us next Sunday for a run through some cross basics in preparation for round 2 of Dirty Deeds Urban Cyclocross.

Cyclocross skills session – Sunday 3rd of July

10.30 – 12.00 at Darebin Parklands – meet at the Ranger Station

Running through dismounts and remounts, barrier jumping, hill running and anything else you would like to focus on.

We will finish up with a short mock race for the giggles.
Nik and Blakey will be on hand to give technical pointers.

Bring any bike – cross ready or not.

Please pass on to anyone I have forgotten or any of your friends may be interested.

Hope to see you there,

Kate.

You know you want to. Dang it. I want to. I know it might be weird, because I think (suspect) that there is cyclocross in Brisbane and yet I seem to be making no effort whatsoever to go in it. See, how it takes me massive amounts of encouragement to get out and ride?

I would literally need someone like Kate to be pumping it up hard and fast to get me out of my fat-koala butt comfort zone and encouraging me with GIGGLES in order to get me riding in this in QLD.

I don’t know quite why this is. Maybe because I don’t have ten friends, or ten friends I think I could make to make me go along. And, in some senses, I have a fear that Brisbane people are going to do cyclocross in quite a sporty way, not in a quite a silly way. But hey, that’s judging from a long way from the outside. And, maybe, it’s because I don’t want to go alone.

Although, the internet tells me that on the 16th of July, there is this action available via the Ipswich Cycling Club. Regrettably, I almost believe that it would take the people at Surly themselves to lend me a bike to try out, because I just can’t see myself getting a. organised, b. a bike and c. race fit in time.

Actually. Bugger. I just saw that they posted a nice story about a female rider. Now all I need is drop bars, fatter tyres and some borrowed pedals and I’ll totally ride it. Rats, and friendly Briztreadley even posted heaps of pics for the last rides.

Crap. People just keep making it easier and easier to ride. It’s like a gateway drug, right?

But my friend Nat is in town that weekend – and I already want to drag her to the Pushies Galore. I don’t know if she’ll handle two bike events in one weekend.