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I'll just put all speculation to rest right here and tell you that Craig Hayes lays out an awesome cross country course! The only gripe I heard was that the race ended too soon. A bunch of riders wanted to play some more. Yup, it was that good! Santa Claus Hayes brought an early Christmas present to the 75 or so cross country riders who showed up at stately Hayes Manor (and expert Husky rebuild shop) in Ramsey, IL. The four- to five-mile course allowed riders to use every gear in their gearboxes, although the majority of the course was great flowing stuff through the woods with plenty of elevation changes, a little fresh cut tight stuff, some tricky off-camber hillside ascents and descents, and a top gear romp alongside his neighbor's pasture and across his front yard. The few sketchy creek crossings either had sturdy bridges or wire mesh across the soft spots. Craig must have stock in the arrow, staple, and course ribbon companies as evidenced by hundreds of arrows throughout the course. As one rider noted, 38
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a blind man with a color-blind seeing-eye dog couldn't get off course out there! Western Illinois received several inches of rain in the week preceding the event, but you couldn't tell it in the woods. Ground parched from a long, dry summer eagerly soaked up the rain and made for near perfect traction. The Saturday vintage rows faced a course covered with dew-soaked leaves and thus a little slick in spots, but the course only got better with each lap. Sunday's lap times showed it, too. AHRMA cross country draws some well-known heavy hitters in addition to the already
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