Off Season Cross

Now that the adventure race season is over one would think that the Banana's dig in and hibernate for the winter. But not us we like to keep up with the training by continuing to go out for breakfast and also riding Cyclocross. Our first race was the Madison at Britania Park as part of the Eastern Ontario Cyclocross Series. A Madison is a tag team event so after much discussion about who should represent Go Banana it was decided that Brian and Charles should go. This was due to the fact that I have a cross bike and that you have to get on and off the bike a lot in cross and we all know Charles is good at that (Man Down!). After a few practice laps I decided to show Charles how to get on and off his bike and that made a big difference on the enjoyment level of the race. We both found the race quite taxing, it is amazing how hard 9 minutes on a bike can be when you go as hard as you can. Also riding on grass is harder than you think, go try it. It was good to see our fans out. Fans included my family, fellow Banana Thomas and Junior Banana Jeremy. Also at various stages of the race you could hear my daughter yelling encouragement like "Go faster daddy!" and the classic "Go Banana!". She also suggested a team name "Go Keira" which would make at least 2 people in the Go Banana family happy, we decided not to go with it. We managed to get 7 laps in and had a lot of fun. I was pretty sure we would have won the race is no one else had showed up. Come on out and see us at a cross race near you.

Brian