amazing how much more i get done these days without twitter

I looked at 250 MTB races on BikeReg in an attempt to think data-backed thoughts instead of vibe-based thoughts about New England mountain bike racing. I learned some things and maybe you will, too.

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JESS!

URL ME

i think being reminded you took a whole season off is punishment enough

try now, i "fixed" it

haha i was just thinking "oh i better never tested the case where someone didn't race"

we are seeing a decline in events but stability in racers per event, at least in New England

🥲

i have free time for the first week in months!

so that's what the "weird log" was

he was there

ULTRAPaully is always there

was there snow?

did u go?

hey if you race cyclocross go to crossresults.com i made a year in review thingy

oh i actually have done this several times, the 6" italian sub was my standard lunch in hundred milers. Lumberjack was my favorite because i ate it while on the back of a paceline.
untilthesnowends.blogspot.com/2014/06/lumb...

so we need to get 3 Beverly soccer moms to stand in a circle and chant "can someone teach us step through?"

where's ultrapaully

Also kinda interesting that while the scene has decline A LOT since the peak in 2014, races aren't really getting smaller. It's always been 250-300 people per event, on average. We just have 50% fewer events now.

"No one races cx twice a weekend anymore" is actually kinda true it looks like. The obvious explanation is that we don't have 5-7 UCI weekends that were two days at the same place in #NECX like we did in the mid-2010s

I dunno if this is statistically significant but Sunday races have been markedly smaller than Saturday races in NECX the last few years

i signed into the website and it's just doomscrolling Ryan

#jdpu

I believe I picked up the term from either JD or @megadeau.bsky.social

Eh it was still cool

If there was a cyclocross race in New England this weekend I would be registered for it. Just sayin.

11:00 "Old Guys" | dahweasel05631 2023 Ice Weasels Cometh Cyclocross Race

It would be wrong of me to buy a photo of someone crashing at my bike race, right? stevethephotographer.photos/p949109090/h...

I got a full speed charcuturie handup (salami + cheese on a snagged off the end of a stick) and it was friggin great

C H A O S

A DnD alignment chart meme about the 2023 Ice Weasels Cometh bike race

Christin relayed a joke about juniors being "chaotic," and then we had no choice but to fill out the other 8 panels.

so you guys really hate Henry Kissinger huh