Part One Part Two I haven’t done a lot of road races in the heat. The last race or ride that was anything like this was Elkhorn 2008. When the temps are above 90F and the mileage and course are this brutal, the bottom of my feet burn like there are hot coals in my shoes. My [...][...]
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August 16th, 2010 - 9:57 am § in Race Reports
Rapha Race Part Deux
Part One Mindy shakes her head at us when her and Jeff catch up with us at the bottom of Pittsburg. Our fearless leader is not feeling well; he has the shakes and looks pale. Nearly out of water, we continue on with our eye for another store, but drop him almost instantly. [...][...]
August 16th, 2010 - 8:39 am § in Race Reports
Rapha Gentleman (and Ladies’) Race, Part One
When confronted with something like 125 miles, 6000+ feet of climbing (mostly on gravel), 95 degrees and a race team full of people much faster than I, my tactic is simply to not think about it until I’m on my bike and suddenly it occurs to me Oh shit what did I get myself into. [...][...]
August 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am § in MTB, Race Reports
Short Track Finale
What can I say? I had an amazing race. My original thought was to again just soft pedal the first lap to save my back. But as we lined up to start, I thought to myself: fuck it. I’m racing. I wasn’t even last coming to the first corner and managed to not be last the whole [...][...]
Short Track, Chris King, and Wrenching
A week ago was my second short track race of the season, and I changed my strategy, with my focus being on a back-pain-free race. So I essentially soft pedaled my first lap, sitting in the back, actually wishing the couple of people in front of me would go faster on the technical sections, that [...[...]
Race Report (!) – Short Track
I started getting nervous about racing around 4:30pm, even though I knew that I would not be able to give my best effort. I would probably be nervous going over anything vaguely technical, I am out of racing shape and it would be my first short track as a cat 1. I figured there was [...][...]
April 25th, 2010 - 8:56 pm § in MTB, Race Reports
Race Report: Bear Springs (death) Trap
I’m not even sure where to start with this one. The first half of the race was probably one of the best races I have done; not only was course fun and fast, but I was flying, and in a great spot. …and the second half was definitely the worst. Mentally. Physically. Spritually. Bad bad [..[...]
April 12th, 2010 - 2:02 pm § in MTB, Race Reports
Race Report – Horning’s Hustle
The finishing climb. I thought I still had a lap to go... This race report has to actually start on Friday afternoon, when after my first guitar lesson, I rode to Mississippi and Skidmore to meet a few teammates at Prost, a German bar that serves up brew in liter and half liter glasses. I took [...][...]
March 7th, 2010 - 10:26 pm § in MTB, Race Reports
Race Report: Echo Red to Red
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[...]
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[...]
