Nittany Lion Cross in Trexlertown, PA. Last year this was the first race of the season. It was hot and dry, much like Rochester last weekend. I started knocking down season goals at this race last year, placing 10th on day 2 and earning my very first UCI point, after placing 17th the day prior. It is a course that …
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Heat Wave Hello
I am pretty behind in the posting. I know I said I would post about my Amy D appointment, but things got pretty crazy for me for a while between trai ning and the new job and then organizing stuff with the team. In a nutshell: I was selected to ride for the Amy D Racing program. My racing is …
New England Crit Championships
I’ve been slacking on the blog posting recently, for a few reasons. I live my life in a dichotomy: there is always too much going on, or nothing at all. I had planned to race Tour of the Hilltowns, but I pulled the plug due to some back pain I had been having for weeks leading up to the race. The …
Staying In and Pulling Through
Riding at the track is an interesting experience for me each and every time I show up. Adding to the variety: there are three different courses (maybe even more…). There is the road course, Frontier, and the oval (with or without chicanes). All are around a mile to 1.5 miles in length: the road course has non-trivial turns, one punchy …
Learning. Experience.
I really loved the feedback I got on my last post! Between the post and the race, a lot of good conversation happened here, on Twitter, and that good old-fashion face-to-face communication that may never have actually happened as it was not meticulously documented. Many people understood my frustration with a lack of upgrade, some thought I should have been granted …
Purgatory RR Victory!
So, I am doing a terrible job of regular blogging, but I am either too busy to write, or too bored and uninspired. On Thursday at the track I wrote a great blog article in my head, but by the time I had to time write it on Friday it was gone. My brain is like a sieve. A very …