13 December 2012 | Race Reports
USGP #7, #8 Bend, OR: Race Report
There was lots of talk about how the Bend USGP was going to be sloppy. It was going to be wet. Muddy. Snowy. Cold. A real mess. Well, that never materialized, and even… | READ »
ARCHIVES
Posts in 2012
30 November 2012 | Race Reports
USGP #5 & #6: Louisville, KY Race Report or What’s Up With The Rubber Chicken?
So the fact that I haven’t done a race report from Louisville has been hanging over me since…well…Louisville. In fact, I really can’t bring myself to actually write an entire race report (long… | READ »
8 November 2012 | Race Reports
The Iceman Cometh
For the past few years, I’d be mid-way through my ‘cross season and I’d read about this mountain bike race in Michigan. In November. Supposedly thousands of people raced it, and many of… | READ »
23 October 2012 | Misc
USGP #3 & #4 Fort Collins, CO: Race Report
As if I wasn’t bad enough with providing timely race reports…Seems like in the off-season things are just slipping a little. After the first weekend of USGP racing, I took 2 weeks off… | READ »
28 September 2012 | Race Reports
What happened in vegas…Cross Vegas and first USGPs: Race Report
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…” Never thought I would invoke that saying, but when it comes to my race at Crossvegas this year…well… I wrote a pretty long blog post about… | READ »
12 September 2012 | Race Reports
2012 MTB World Championships: Saalfelden, Austria: Race Report
My three weeks at home post-Olympics flew by. It didn’t help that I got sick almost immediately. I was so motivated by my Olympic race that I was ready to get some good… | READ »
16 August 2012 | Race Reports
2012 London Olympics: Race Report
After the World Cup in Val D’Isere, the US Olympic Mountain bike team headed to Kirchzarten, Germany to train for a week before heading to London. Hats off to US Mountain Bike Team… | READ »
2 August 2012 | Race Reports
Race Report: World Cup #7 Val D’Isere, France
When I showed up in Val D’Isere I was happy to find that the course was pretty straight forward- nothing too risky or dangerous. Not that it was an easy course- far from… | READ »
10 July 2012 | Race Reports
US National Championships- Race Report
The National Championships returned to Ketchum, Idaho this year, and once again I was thrilled to return to the place where I first started riding and racing mountain bikes. The previous two weekends… | READ »
2 July 2012 | Race Reports
I Almost Won A World Cup. Again. Windham, NY Race Report
Racing a World Cup race on US soil is very special to me- especially since there were so many years when there was no World Cup in the US. There’s just something about… | READ »
25 June 2012 | Race Reports
I Almost Won a World Cup: Race Report from World Cup #5 Mont Ste Anne, Canada
Two days ago, I came as close as I ever have to winning a World Cup. And at Mont Ste Anne no less. Last year I had a rough race on the Mont… | READ »
20 June 2012 | Race Reports, Travel
Winning a Kayak in a Bike Race, “Forced” Altitude Camp and A Case of Food Poisoning
Just a little taste of what’s been going on in my world these days. After the La Bresse World Cup, I had a few days at home before heading up to Vail… | READ »
25 May 2012 | Race Reports
World Cup #4: La Bresse, France- Race Report
The course in La Bresse has been referred to as “old-school” meaning that there aren’t any man-made obstacles and it is all “natural.” That didn’t mean it was easy- far from it. The… | READ »
15 May 2012 | Race Reports
World Cup #3 Nove Mesto, Czech Republic: Race Report
Nove Mesto might be my favorite World Cup. It’s not just the course (which is really fun as well as physically tough and technically challenging), but the spectators come out in droves, line… | READ »
10 May 2012 | Race Reports
Whiskey 50 Race Report or “How I Lost $2000 in 10 Minutes”
I like racing bikes. And while I like the typical cross-country format, I also enjoy both longer and shorter races. And a big prize purse doesn’t hurt either. So after a few years… | READ »