Category: Racing
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Union City 2013
Note: I started this blog about Union City last week (March 16-17), but I’ve been crazy busy all week and haven’t been able to post it until now. Day 1 – Shannon Mall Circuit Race I’m still trying to parse what just happened in today’s circuit race, but however the outcome we had a great…
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Rouge Roubaix 2013
Annotated power map (click to enlarge) I have been wanting to write this race report from the moment the race was over, but it has been a crazy busy week at work. I am finally caught up enough that I can sit down to reflect on what for sure was the most epic Rouge Roubaix…
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2013 Simple Joe’s Training Race Series
Each year for the past 10+ years, Bill Seitz and his GSMR team have put on an excellent “kick-off-the-year” training series up in a rural valley near Gadsden at the Camp Sumataunga. I signed up to race all three races, but I forgot about a church program Analise and Josiah were going to be in…
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2013 Southern Cross Race Report
Me and race promoter, ultra mtb racer Eddie O'Dea at the awards presentation Quick summary 1st place overall! Thomas Turner dropped me about halfway up the first climb, but I ended up catching him again just before the start of the final descent (35 miles later) before he dropped me again on the descent. He…
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Skiing and cycling – an unscientific comparison
So I mainly just wanted to upload a video of my kids in their first ski race yesterday, but I thought I would compare and contrast cross-country skiing and cycling as part of the post. First, the video: Josiah is the boy taking off running without any ski poles. Analise is skiing next to my…
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Bamacross Sloss Cross
The 2012 Bamacross series finale was held today at the historic Sloss Furnace abandoned steel mill. The course was epic for water, rain, mud, and location. I’m sure there will be some good pics up on facebook that people will post. I’m going to try to link to a couple of them here on this…
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Palmarés Updated, 1993-2006
1993 – After my first mountain bike race – the 1993 Cumberland Classic at Sewanee, TN. 6th in the juniors and 25th in the beginners (there were 100 people in the race!) I started this post earlier in the year when I decided to update my racing results dating all the way back to my…
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Oak Mountain Chainbuster MTB Race
The Report My first experience in timed endurance mountain bike racing went really well – I came away with a win in the solo expert class. But more importantly I think the switch flipped on during the first lap of the race, and I discovered how to ride a mountain bike over technical terrain. I…
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2012 season statistics and reflection
With all that is happening in cycling right now, I definitely appreciate everyone who continues to follow my racing. I have never used any kind of performance enhancing drug, and it makes me sad/mad that so many of the stars of cycling from my generation have resorted to that during their careers. I think Phil…
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I am officially a Friend of the Great Smokies…
Friends of the Great Smokies newest team member – me! I am officially a Friend of the Great Smokies — both literally as a member of the FGS Cycling race team for 2013 and figuratively as someone who loves to spend time in the beautiful high mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. I am no…