Brad Huff Cycling

So the Creed’s and I head up to a cross race up in Denver, CO. On attendance was the dynamic duo of Mike Weiss and Amy Strahan in for a little USCF meeting of the minds in Colorado Springs over the weekend.
So how to cheer started off with a bang as I:
1st attempted (acted) like I was going to run in to Weiss as he struggled around the course with a pulled hammy….ouch.
2nd providing Weiss with some REAL MAN chest excitement/encouragement as I ran out to meet him on his subsequent lap…beautiful I say
then as Mike Creed and I positioned ourselves in the most appropriate heckling spot I quickly jumped in to full throttle with some words of advice…..not the same old:
your catching him
GO GO
do it for Lance
come on
how are you going to explain this to your son Aaron?
keep pushing
you suck
17 seconds
Butthead just stopped to eat cake hurry up
harder
move up
a girl just passed you…which if very common in the land of Katie Compton who just won her first WORLD CUP CYCLOCROSS RACE!!!…but really building and thought provoking words of advice like:
1. you’ve got plenty of room
2. don’t get comfortable
3. it’s all about P.S.I people
4. don’t use your brakes….NO BRAKES
5. and my favorite: “BEN TURNER does not pay you to soft cock it out here!”
also important to note that at anytime one can choose any given name that best fits the rider that they most enjoy heckling: as for today it was HONKY TONK as he was really giving it out there and was able to do it in style with a Rayon Cowboy Shirt and cut off polyester slacks. Then you are able to say things like: “Honky Tonk just passed you”
Needless to say people love this stuff.
**ALSO make sure to bring a MEGA PHONE if you have one as this only increases the amount of encouragement that one is able to provide to those poor soles who paid there kid’s lunch money that week to suffer for an hour.

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