Yesterday was the Knickerbocker 50mile/8hr mtn bike race out at everyone’s favorite loop behind the fire station in Cool, CA. A welcome polar opposite to the last time racers visited the Olmstead Loop for a race back in May, conditions were about as dry as I have ever seen out in Cool. I didn’t realize [...]
The week was going extremely well, despite the sharp pains in my chest and constant ache due to the broken rib I’d sustained the week before due to a crash on my mountain bike. I was feeling strong and confident and looking very forward to racing the new Tahoe Sierra course that weekend.
I was racing [...]
“Go!”
Jim shouts one small word and the race has begun. It always feels unreal when you push into the first few pedal strokes of a 24 hour race. I want to scream, to sprint, to cry, and to vomit all at once. Instead, I just pedal and try to stay upright as the pack funnels [...]
Yikes. I’m poor, or so it seems…. Somehow I hadn’t really realized it until I checked my bank account the weekend before the Coolest 24 Hour Race Against Cancer at Boggs. However, sitting there with my bank account balance displayed on the screen before me in bright red numbers (that means below zero), it was [...]
Why yes, yes it is… But it’s the first week of June, and I’m in California. How can it be snowing? I’m not sure if I’m saying these words out loud or just thinking them very loudly in my head as I pull my Subaru into the Kirkwood parking lot last Thursday evening. It doesn’t [...]
Well, I feel like I have had enough time to decompress after last weekend’s failed attempt at winning the Coolest 24 hr. Heck, as things would turn out, I didn’t even finish the race… But hold on, there’s a little more to it than that.
It seems that over the last three years, we must have [...]
It didn’t go well, unfortunately. Body took a little longer than normal to warm up this morning, but it felt fine and I was riding in the mix of things. I couldn’t go with the guys who got away at the start but figured if I could find my rhythm I would stand a good [...]
Last week was a whirlwind of road trips, familiar faces, beuatiful weather, and dang good mountain bike racing! I loaded the car up on tuesday night with bikes, food, tons of clothing, extra helmets, shoes, lights, this, that, the other thing, blah blah blah… You all know the routine. It’s better to have it and [...]
I realized just the other day while contemplating the idea of taking an easy week or throwing in an extra rest day now and again that I may not have ever gotten around to writing a race report for last season’s Tahoe Sierra 100 race. I know I’ve read a few reports through the eyes of [...]
I don’t watch football, heck I don’t even know who is playing in the big game. So, how do I know that the Superbowl must be near? Well, for the past four years I have become ill within days of the big game. I woke up this morning just as sick as a dog and wouldn’t [...]
