Me and two teammates drove to Echo, Oregon on Friday in the early evening, stopping briefly in Hood River to enjoy some Double Mountain love. We arrived in Echo around 9pm with some hand scrawled directions that said things like “take a left after the air strip and the windmill, a right just a[...]
Archive for the ‘Racing’ Category
February 21st, 2010 - 8:42 am § in Race Reports
Race Report: Sublimity
Remember back when I said I didn’t want to race until April? Why, was that again? Oh yes, I haven’t been training to race (no intervals training, no speed work, no race pace anything), I don’t want to burn out early, etc. Well, given that this is me we’re talking about, I de[...]
Updated racing schedule (again)
I’ve changed some stuff around, and decided to make a go at the Oregon MTB XC Series races, those are colored in blue. Now, there’s one problem. You have to race 7 races to be considered in contention. I will probably end up getting cat’d up very quickly. In fact if I podium at Red[...]
January 5th, 2010 - 11:28 am § in Racing
Updated Racing Schedule
I just realized I haven’t really looked at the OBRA schedule at all, or thought about training at all. Wow, how bizarre for me. Mountain Bike Schedule: April 11th – Horning’s Hustle (Hillsboro) May 9th – Cascade Chainbreaker MTB (Bend) May 30th – Sisters Stampede XC MT[...]
November 21st, 2009 - 12:58 am § in Racing
2010 Extremely Tentative A-ish races
Cherry Blossom Stage Race 22-Apr-10 Cascade Chainbreaker 9-May-10 Silverton RR 16-May-10 Picketts Charge 27-Jun-10 High Cascades 100 7-Aug-10 [...]
November 12th, 2009 - 1:12 pm § in Cyclocross, Race Reports
Anyone have some spare knees?
Looks like I missed posting about Astoria weekend as well as the PIR cross crusade race. I wonder why I didn’t feel particularly motivated to post…oh yeah. All three races sucked. Bad. I felt like I had been through the meat grinder during the Saturday Astoria race. Every hill was a chal[...]
Autumn Progress
I’ve been making progress on all fronts the past month, with a few missteps, a lot of success and a plan to move November into overdrive. Cyclocross & Interval Training This season has been great for me, something my placement doesn’t necessarily reflect. I’ve had a few really [...]
Race Report – WA County Fairgrounds
The course was slick; our tent was set up right at an uphill, off-camber section where many people were wiping out. I was praying for a deluge right before our race. Given that the course was entirely flat, the more technical the weather could make it, the better. I was nervous before the start, my [...]
October 19th, 2009 - 6:00 am § in Cyclocross, Race Reports
Race Report: Sherwood killed my bike
Or more specifically, my tire. The race was a mountain biker’s course, it was perfect for me. I had a call up. I should have easily placed top ten. However, my start sucked. I don’t know, I just didn’t bring it. I didn’t bring much of anything, I was barely pedaling. In fact,[...]
October 17th, 2009 - 11:22 am § in Food & Diet, Racing
This week kicked my ass
I’m sitting in bed, noon on a Saturday, waiting for my head to stop throbbing, so it seems like a good time for an update. This week I instituted an entire healthy living overhaul. I’m getting minimum 7 hours of sleep. I’m down to 2 cups of coffee in the morning. I’m on a die[...]
