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Cyclocross Crash: A Photo Essay

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Remember when I mentioned trying to power through the mud pit and taking a face-first dive in front of a photographer at my cyclocross race last weekend? Here is the proof.

It actually makes for a pretty funny little photo essay.

Here I am attempting to power through the mud, hoping I can just somehow skim across the top and make it back to dry land ASAP. Instead I bounce off of a mud covered tree root, and it all goes to hell after that.

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Something tells me my wheel isn’t supposed to be pointed sideways.

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Yeah. This definitely isn’t looking good. Foot planted, bike flying up from under me.

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“Oh Crap!”

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Wait, where did Jamie go?

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Face first in the Mud.

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Another hot picture of my ass.

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No time to play in the mud! Up and running with a big smile on my face. Thankfully I didn’t even get a scrape on me. Time to RUN!

Despite the blurry ass shots, the photographer is actually really good and got some pics of other racers looking way faster and more bad-ass than I do lying in the mud. Check out his pics at these links:

http://flickr.com/photos/beastgp/

http://picasaweb.google.com/beastgp

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  1. Bree Wee says:

    Whoa! Jamie, usted habla español? ¡Maravilloso! Ahora tengo un otro amigo para practicar!!. Quiero encontrarle el año próximo!!!

    Espero que usted tenga una gran Turkey Day (dia de polvo :) .

    Oh, and I love the fotos! Glad you have proof, I didn’t believe you! Those are awesome!!

    un abrazo grande!!
    Bree

  2. Wow, what a biff!! It’s great it was captured!!!

  3. Kel says:

    Okay, THAT was great! Mud is soft and you are hard as nails!! Great pics and thanks for the laugh. Your blog rocks! Signed, black belt ninja…Kel :)

  4. alan says:

    Awesome ! It’s got to be kind of cool to have a blow-by-blow of a memorable crash like that.

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