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Nothing looked obviously wrong with your position to me.
I have had lower back pain sometimes during cross but trying to remember good posture when grinding through the mud/up hills really seems to help - it also allows you to better engage you glutes for moar powah!
I had a pretty poor start, but after a lap or two got into a decent rhythm and was making good progress catching mid field riders, until I ran out of them - there seemed to be a marked gap between the mid fielders and the guys at the sharp end - I think perhaps due to the fact there were some VERY fast guys riding - including MTB pro Liam Killeen...
At that point though I was catching the slower Vets and Youth riders. All was looking good as I managed to get onto the wheel of one of the fast guys who had pitted, until I hit a section that had a newly paved path across it and punctured. This was about half way round and for a lot of the muddy parts of the course was perfectly rideable with 0psi :P It was only when it switched off the grass and onto the airstrip that I had to get off and run (about 1/3rd of the way). Only to get to the pits and realise I had left my bag in the commisaires car rather than in the pits :(Oh well, another lesson learned :)
Looking forward to the last of our series - in Bath at the Odd Down circuit on the 4th. It is part crit circuit, part bmx track (!) , part mtb course and with a bit of grassy field riding thrown in.
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Had a good cross race over in the south west today, until i started getting really bad back pain and had to pull out a lap from the end, I've not had the problem before, my position on the bike feels good although I could be a little more stretched out. saddle to bar drop is a tad less than my other bikes as is normal in cross. any ideas what could be causing this? bad fit, or lack of core strength or something?