Continuing with my study of cyclocross as an art form, I was dragged by Her Imperial Majesty down to the Providence Cyclocross Festival. This brief adventure yielded some more pictures of nut jobs. Take, for example, running up a hill. Not content with the fact that running up a hill in and of itself is a little stressful, these nutters take it to a new level – they shoulder their bikes and start running.
Why, you may rightly ask, don’t they simply ride up the hill. Well, that’s because they put freaking stairs in the way. Like this:
Naturally I’m a little confused why they feel the need to crawl up the stairs.
In an attempt to be all-inclusive, the course designers also seem to have a “beginner” section sans stairs, but this one they made a little muddier. Like so:
And just in case the competitors hadn’t been beaten down enough, the organizers seem to take great delight in putting barriers in the way of everyone:
The remaining portraits of agony can be found on my gallery, over here.
October 10th, 2009 | 
