Bummer — Brook Watts advises that this Sunday’s Boulder Cup cyclo-cross will be relocated to the Boulder Reservoir after heavy snow that made it impossible to use Harlow Platts Park.
Says race director Chris Grealish: “The racers love Harlow Platts because of the challenging nature of the grassy terrain, but we have an agreement with the city of Boulder to make a move if conditions there risk long-term damage to the park.”
Too bad. Harlow Platts is a fun venue, but there’s no point in chewing it the hell up. And I wasn’t going to be able to go anyway, as Sunday is one of my days in the Velo-barrel.
Here’s a bit I wrote about the last race I saw there. Well, as usual, there’s not much in there about the actual race, but what the hell, it’s either read this or get back to work, right?
Mad Blog Media 
Harlow Platts Park circa 2006, when it wasn’t buried under a ton of snow.
It is now. I live about 100 yards from Harlow Platts Park and it’s still dumping snow. There’s about a foot of snow on my garage roof.
Duncan Carter, Boulder
Will Joe Lieberman be the new Fox News Mascot? Sit up, Joey! Shake paws and Filibuster Harry Reid’s plan! Attaboy…we’ll have you on again Sunday, you can sit next to Dick…don’t forget to wear the purple tie.
Hey, let’s not use my Joseph-derived name to describe a jerk like that guy – let’s call him Joe instead. Joe is a good name for people like Joe the Plumber-Pundit and other ignorant types. I prefer to share a moniker with a baby kangaroo – cute, warm, and fuzzy, but I’ll kick the hell out of you if you get too close.
Hey, Duncan — Wowsah, a foot? I can’t remember the last time we had a decent snowfall here. Bupkis is what we got here, even though it’s been “snowing” all day. Feh.
WOO-sorry I spit out my bile on the wrong page. Still goes, tho.
That photo is now the local sledding hill….
It had something on the order of a hundred kids sledding on it around 1 PM.
Woo! More snow in CO! Airports closed etc. Here in TX we just get raining mud, either that or I need to put some fenders on Gigi (the red bicycle in my avatar).