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3 December 2011 | Race Reports
The idea for #heckleme started innocently enough. I had 3 mediocre races in a row (a string of 6th place finishes in Cincinnati- I won’t bore you with the details), and I was… | READ »
2 November 2011 | Race Reports
After the USGP races in Fort Collins, I took a much-needed break. I didn’t ride my bike for a week- a sort of last-ditch effort to give my body a chance to recoup… | READ »
24 October 2011 | Race Reports
Since my next race is coming up in a few days, I figure now is the time to post the report of my last race… I have top say, it’s pretty awesome to… | READ »
26 September 2011 | Race Reports
After experiencing the awesomeness that is ‘cross vegas, I was excited for the first USGP races- it seems like every year the USGP gets bigger and better. This year was no different. We… | READ »
21 September 2011 | Race Reports
Ahh ‘Cross Vegas. It’s one of the biggest and best races on the U.S. ‘cross calendar. It also happens to come right at the end of mountain bike season, and somehow I have… | READ »
21 September 2011 | Race Reports
I’ve been putting off writing this race report. Mostly because I just don’t want to dwell on the crappy end to my mountain bike season. But I guess it’s good to analyze the… | READ »
18 August 2011 | Misc
Sucky races are always hard to write about. I guess because I am usually pretty ready to move on and not rehash all the suck. But, since some of you are curious about… | READ »
5 August 2011 | Travel
Now that I’ve had a few days to decompress, do some laundry, organize all my crap (when I was leaving England, I pretty much just stuffed everything into my bag) and get in… | READ »
1 August 2011 | Race Reports
The whole point of the Olympic test race is to provide a sort of “dry run” of every aspect of the event for both the race organizers and the National Federations. Everything is… | READ »
30 July 2011 | Misc
It’s hard to believe the last few weeks of the Mountain Bike season are here already. It has been a long season in some ways, but there are are few big races still… | READ »
22 July 2011 | Misc
The “Findings” page in Harper’s Magazine is always full of interesting information. Thought I’d share some of my favorite tidbits from the most recent issue. -Spiders have more legs than they need -Taranchulas… | READ »
18 July 2011 | Race Reports
Ever since I found out the 2011 National Championships would be in Sun Valley, I had been looking forward to defending my national title in front of a home town crowd. Dusty and… | READ »
11 July 2011 | Misc
Finally! A clean race at a World Cup. I was pretty fired up after Mont Ste. Anne and was ready to throw down in Windham. My pre-rides all went well, I was feeling… | READ »
3 July 2011 | Race Reports
What the heck HAPPENED? Why has Georgia been sucking at the World Cups? These are two questions you might be asking yourself (I know I did), and here is my attempt to explain/recount… | READ »
30 June 2011 | Race Reports
I have to admit, after a few spectacular weeks at home I wasn’t exactly excited about traveling again. It has been so nice to be at home working in my garden, experimenting in… | READ »