So you want to race in Europe (or at least you want to know about how I did it). Step one: Listen to everything everyone says about it. This will make it easier. Step two: Make sure you are surrounded by people who are concerned about you and your relative competency and thus will ensure that every single detail is …
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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 …
Shedd Park, add layers
I would like you all to know that I was in extreme pain all week. Derby City Cup really took it out of me. Like I said, I wasn’t exactly peaking in fitness at that point, but, the pain is proof that I left it all out there, at least physically. So, after resting quite a bit this week, I …
chop n drop, KY edition
My Focus bike, outstanding in its field. Phillipsburg, OH This weekend, the Derby City Cup cyclocross race in Louisville, Kentucky was on the race calendar. That is approximately a 19 hour drive from my home, but only a 3 hour drive from my parents’ in Dayton, OH. The most logical conclusion: fly to mommy and daddy’s, drive to race. Best …
#injurygate
Must start by sharing THIS TOTALLY AWESOME MOOSE!! Since living in New Hampshire I have seen only moose poop, and a dead moose. No live moose sightings. UNTIL NOW! When driving to find a picnic spot, this specimen was spotted near Bartlett, NH. Now, onto much less pressing or exciting news. After a very successful weekend at the Ellison Park …
Anniversary Weekend
*Divine Providence* Saturday, 2013. My first CX race. The conditions were similar to Saturday this year. It had rained on Friday and the course was tacky for Saturday, but in 2013 I think Sunday was the rainy day. On the day I raced, I had a very last row callup (day of reg woes), and started behind 105 fellow Cat …