(How about this for practice? Bring your mechanic and a few extra bikes so you can practice bike hand-offs along with dismounts. Oh yeah, and about a mile of running too.)
For those of you that want to start brushing up their 'cross skillz early this year, we're planning on a little practice and clinic, just like last year, at the usual spot RSP location, though I would like ride from the back (North) parking lot in RSP to some nearby destinations, with some additional, and more challenging features. I think 5:30 would be a decent start time, but come whenever you can, we'll be practicing for sometime (which means until we're tired and need beer.)
The first practice session should be a congenial affair. My suggestion is to go through the basics of the mount and dismount.
Also after practicing some mounting and dismounting we'll also be practicing setting up the barriers after we knock them to pieces.
The idea of all this is to perfect - or at least start on the road to perfection - of mounting and dismounting, so you'll look more like this ...
And not like this ...
Or this, from a not to-long-ago Tailwind race ...
And if you wondering if we were going to practice "bunny-hopping" barriers. The answer is an emphatic "NO" for the reason seen below.
