'24-hours' Category
Granny Gear tries “Funny”, Still Requires Firstborn for Race Entry Fee
I just caught this little gem over at the Dirt Rag Blog:
Granny Goes GalacticI’m somewhat intrigued to see the organizers of the Granny Gear 24 hour series trying to be funny with their press releases. Maybe they took all those $350 entry fees that they extracted from all the solo participants via their [...]
Down the Chute
As you may have noticed, my race reports tend to be fairly high level. I leave out things like riding into the ditch on willow springs road during the APC, falling in the one puddle on the entire course during the singleswizzle, and an incredibly long, somewhat bizarre stream of thoughts (and songs) [...]24 in the OP
It’s a done deal. The final numbers for yours truly came out at 9 laps, 144 miles, and 10,800 feet of climbing. 11th place out of 45 in the solo singlespeed category.As has been illustrated time and time again, I am horrible at pacing myself on something this long. Lap times [...]
Quick Hits
Just a couple items of interest before I hit the sack.First up, tRoy did a bit of video editing, and put together a little youtube from our trip this past weekend. View it here. You get to see me slamming my hand against a shovel for the sake of safety and then [...]
Anatomy of a Meltdown: Gunnison Race Report
Number 6 is in the books. 6 twenty-four hour races. Four of them solo. You would think I would have this thing down by now.I will say one thing, I can pretty much tell you how it’s going to end after the first couple laps. I’m either in a groove, [...]
Preparing for Pain
I’ve been getting ready for gunnison the last few days. I rebuilt my fork a couple days ago so that it will actually function as a suspension fork (and not a rigid). Hopefully that was the last time on this one, gotta start saving the pennies for a new one, I did [...]
