John McKenna and David Lehn finished the NC Winter cup yesterday on a day of cold damp slippery racing with a few sand pits to boot. David raced cat 4 and Masters 35 + through out the whole series and McKenna raced Masters 35+ and pro/1/2 cats all but yesterday racing only the Masters 35+. It was a tough race. John never has a good start, cyclocross starts are perfect for sprinter types so missing the hole shot means you always have to do battle to get up front. The usual suspects went off the front right away and quickly that group separated. Four off the front, a chase group of 3 and stragglers behind. McKenna went into TT mode and slowly started picking off people climbing the ladder to the front. “I noticed that peple thought the mud was more slippery then it was, it was actually a bit sandy and had good grip, almost too much grip in some places. I wasn’t feeling particularly strong today but I could see I was makeing a lot of time up in the corners so I had to initiate attacks to make sure I was the one leading into the corner so I could exit ahead a few seconds.” Soon enough McKenna caught up to the chase group on a fast decent around a small pond with a thick muddy flat section. Attacking the chase group there and holding gave him a 15 second lead on the chase group with two laps to go. John kept looking back to make sure the chase group kept it’s distance and rolled in to a 5 place spot for the day.