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All Hail the Pizza Vulture

It's cross season.

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2023 was a real good time. Let's do it again. Regi

A gift from the Fates, or just a quirk of the Greg

A gift from the Fates, or just a quirk of the Gregorian calendar? Either way, you get *two* cyclocross doubleheader weekends in Richmond this year. It'll be a party in the front, with a slightly more serious party at Gillies in the back. Saturday, November 30th, sometime in the morning, somewhere on the Southside. Pray for mud. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. ⚔️🦃

Southside Hustle 4: a thing that definitely happen

Southside Hustle 4: a thing that definitely happened.

🔹 A top secret early bird crew of 10 set off from Pony Pasture at 6 a.m., fending off Mud Mart boogeymen and GPS ghosts to clear the spiderwebs for the rest of us. 5 of this group persevered to the finish, including @alaud1702, our top woman finisher 👑

🔸 A couple hours later, 25 or so rolled from the official 8:30 start and were pretty much immediately smashed to bits. After 5 miles, a lead group of four formed coming out of The Pit and never looked back, shedding individuals one-by-one until we had three solo riders spread out at the front. @n0ahr0berts had the lead but pit stopped for lunch and hit some '23 Hustle bonus trails before rejoining the route, allowing @chilliamxvx to take the front and reach Pony Pasture about 10 minutes before Noah. Both of these dudes earned a cap for their efforts on the day along with Abigail, and all three will have $100 donated in each of their names to our friends at @richmondcyclingcorps. We'll be in touch with caps whenever USPS gets around to delivering them 🤷‍♂️

🔹 Behind, a solid grupetto ebbed and flowed between 5 and 12 riders and kept a spicy pace through hills, crashes, mechanicals, and truly epic mud in the Magnolia Megasite (this is likely the last year we can use that stretch due to the recently in progress construction and it certainly went out in style). A brutal headwind continued to whittle the group down with 4 completing the whole route to the finish (= 12 total finishers on the day for those keeping track).

Thanks to everyone for coming out and for keeping the vibes high through a tough day in the cuts!

PS: If you took the start yesterday and didn't get a spoke card (or need a replacement), hit us up!

Thanks to @falsehope_rva for the photo!

69.5 / 4,117 per RWGPS Route drops Friday. Spoke

See you Saturday.

See you Saturday.

We may still be waking up from a wicked R.A.T. han

Route is up at the profile link. See you next Sund

200+ miles of alleys but not all of them can make

Time to let the R.A.T. chew its way out of the bag

Time to let the R.A.T. chew its way out of the bag. Inspired by mad genius Paul Workman's original Roanoke version - "a cycling experience like no other" - we're stoked to bring this monstrosity of a ride to Richmond... a RiVAh RAT, if you will. Paul's route has only been completed 6 times, and with good reason: it's insane. Expect to lose your sense of time, place, and self as you adventure through well over 100 miles of city alleys. It will be cold. It will be tough. It will be dirty. If you're lucky, you might meet a rat.

More details to follow. 🐀

📸 Daredevils & Masochists 📸 ThanCXgiving 20

📸 Daredevils & Masochists 📸

ThanCXgiving 2023

#cyclocross #cx #sscx #tracklocross

Feels like an appropriate day to reshare this high

Feels like an appropriate day to reshare this highlight video of last year's ThanCXgiving from @piedmontgeronimo. Looking like no mudfest this year but we have some other "exciting features" waiting for you. Sign up and details in the bio.

Let's do this. ThanCXgiving link is in the profile

Time to get this course in race shape. ThanCXgivin

Time to get this course in race shape. ThanCXgiving returns Sunday, November 26th 🦃

We deal in dirt, friend. 🦃

We deal in dirt, friend. 🦃

Stoked for a fun little CX pop-up practice led by

Stoked for a fun little CX pop-up practice led by @r3vots this Sunday morning. He leads the drills, you practice skills, we bring the... croizills. Nope, that doesn't work.

Most probably our worst idea yet.

Most probably our worst idea yet.

--Southside Hustle 3-- Ya'll... that was quite a t

--Southside Hustle 3--
Ya'll... that was quite a time. We had wind, mud, some spicy efforts and real good vibes all day long. No matter your pace or how much of the route you completed, thank you for coming out and getting a little dirty with us. Hopefully you enjoyed at least parts of the madness.

Some record keeping:
Chapeau to our winners @nickimeadia and @nellieyo for their strong efforts and to Audrey and @_superdomestique for embodying the Spirit of the Hustle (TM) with their unbelievable tandem ride. A total of $300 has been donated to @richmondcyclingcorps in your names.

Courtesy of @rollcallrva, we also have some very nice @defeet socks to give out to a handful of folks who had particularly noteworthy days: Noah Roberts, @joe.mm00, @alaud1702, @midnight_at_the_senators_club, @yukysaky and @keithvaninwegen. Collectively (and in no particular order to protect the innocent) these individuals experienced: a day-ending flat while riding solo in the most remote part of the route; a clipped-in, headfirst somersault into a creek; an XL version surpassing 100 miles; two big time wipeouts on the treacherous Bridge of Yeet; and a van Aert-esque flat while in the lead only 1.5 miles from the finish.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you're planning to ride this route in the future, you do so at your own risk, and make sure to grab the most recent version of the Strava file which has a small reroute to avoid an overzealous neighbor. 🤠

See you next year for Southside Hustle 4 🤘

Photo credits:
1: @emilytron
2: @midnight_at_the_senators_club
3: @crushingnemo
4: @raleighhobson
5: @crushingnemo
6: @falsehope_rva
7: @mopedjustin
8: @yukysaky
9: @bandolero.del.fin
10: @thepizzavultures

2 days to go, and 1 until the route drops (via ema

2 days to go, and 1 until the route drops (via email only, so get on that link in the bio). 68 miles, but here's a few features from years 1 and 2 that did not make the cut this time: no Old Otterdale to Dry Bridge power & rail section (some of you may be relieved to hear this), no Larus Park, no Girl Scout Lake, and *drumroll* no Old Gun finale climb this year.

Don't worry, there's a hill at mile 47 that you're really going to hate.

3 days out from Southside Hustle 3. As is now trad

3 days out from Southside Hustle 3. As is now tradition, every starter receives a spoke card and the first finisher in each category (W/M/NB) making it back to Robious Landing gets a cycling cap and $100 donated in their name to Richmond Cycling Corps.

Much like our local topography, the design on this year's caps and cards was heavily influenced by water. Aside from the two major rivers framing Chesterfield and South Richmond (the James and Appomattox), riding offroad in this area makes you appreciate just how many ponds, creeks, lakes, and drainages eventually feed into these waterways. Some of the paths they take are pretty cool, too: Falling Creek, for example, actually originates way up at Lake Salisbury before meandering eastward, while Michauk Creek just 1.5 km away beelines north into Bernards Creek and then the James. Now go trace Swift Creek backwards from where it meets the Appomattox.

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