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Saturday, December 13, 2008
CSI athlete finishes 5th at Cyclocross NationalsKansas City, Missouri —Platinum Performance/CSI athlete finishes 5th at the Cyclocross Nationals
Kansas City, Mo: December 13, 2008
Bobby Langin Sr. finished 5th among the 84 entries at the Cyclcross National Championships in Kansas City, Mo. The 45-minute slugfest included last year’s champion Ned Overend (AKA “The Lung”) who is also a multi-time world mountain bike champion. Sr. started the race in the 6th row and needed to figure out how to get up with the front runners during the critical first lap if there were any hopes of a championship or even a podium finish; the unfortunate part was the other 83 riders had similar visions.
When the whistle blew everyone was jockeying for position, elbows thrown, expletives vocalized but Langin found a nice line in the first turn that helped get him into the top twenty. After a couple more turns and short climbs, he moved up to 10th and then, after the longest climb of the first lap, he found himself in 5th place. At this point, he found that he may have used a bit more energy than he should have and only hung on to his position at the end of the first lap via experience racing motocross as there was an unusual amount of descending after all that climbing.
Lap two of the anaerobic pain-fest caused Sr. to loose a few positions doing his best to recover and settle into a pace battling with Robert Downs (Planet Bike) and Randall Root (Evolution Cycling) each rider attacking the others a few times each circuit. Downs and Langin eventually cracked Root with two laps to go and started reeling in Randy Shields (Carolina Masters) who was in fifth place at the time. On the last lap Downs lost a few seconds to Langin who at the top of the climb, caught Shields and the two entered into a battle of their own for the next few minutes.
At the top of the hill, in a tricky run-up stair—back down and up again section, Langin elected to not remount after the stairs and instead portaged his bike down and back up which netted him a handful of seconds keeping Shields from using the draft across the top, heading into the downhill. Once again the moto-skills came to play giving Langin enough room to avoid a sprint finish and collecting the final podium-spot a mere two minutes behind “The Lung.” Although he was completely spent, Langin had enough energy to ask Ned for his autograph and a picture (Langin’s kind of a “cycling groupie”).
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