Category: bike races
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Some More Thoughts on the Tour Divide: Part 1
I’ve mentioned this before, but damn, what a hard race. It’s not that it’s technically difficult- if you can ride down a bike path you’ve pretty much got the necessary handling skills dialed in. It’s just so long. 2750 miles…
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Tour Divide
Also on the Dirt Rag I haven’t been able to sleep- every night I wake up, thinking that I still have more miles to ride to the border. “No, Colleen already picked you up, it’s over,” I tell myself. Then…
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The Fat Cycle Challenge
Sunday funday front page news- weirdly juxtaposed with not so fun news. I take off my jacket- it’s sunny, I’ll lose the pullover too. I ride over to the edge of the trees, jump off the groomed path and into…
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Tour Divide
I’m in for the biggest of the bike races: Tour Divide Start List I’ve been thinking about trying this thing for a few years, but my trying never really got beyond thinking. Between college, work, and all the other races I…
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Cooper’s Rocks 30k
“Alright, now there’s not gonna be any countdown here,” says Old Man Shogren. I take a bite of a Clif Bar and pull my bottle out. “Go!” Son of a bitch. I fumble to put my bottle back, click in,…
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Single Speed USA
Cinder Bloch Lochner and I finished the drive from Pittsburgh late Thursday night, then setup camp. I crawled in my tent, insisting that I was going to switch my shorts to pants so that I wouldn’t get eaten by mosquitoes,…
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Heading to Single Speed USA
Old Narcoleptic Narcolochner and I are past Chicago, and swinging north to Winona, Minnesota for the single speediest event on the national single speed calendar. Should be some sort of time, hopefully a good one.
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Big Bear Ultra and Thunderdome Light
Eight of us are piled next to a keg into the bed of an old red Toyota pickup. The truck turns into a dark field, and bounces down a dirt path. It stops, I drop the tailgate and everybody jumps…
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Cheat Mountain Ultra
“Hey, tell me how to race my bike,” Colleen says. “Just take your time and have fun. Don’t hurt yourself,” I say. I wave and ride off. Colleen is doing the shorter 17-mile course, so she’ll drive to the top…
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Hilly Billy Roubaix
There were big plans in place for Hilly Billy. They didn’t work out. I left Ohiopyle in the afternoon when I got off, loaded up my fixed Cross Check with camping stuff, and climbed up the mountain outside of town.…
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