'singlespeed' Category
Third Time’s the Charm: 2008 Whiskey 50
Yee haw. Another whiskey in the books, number 3 for me.I had a public goal this year of hitting 4:30 for a finishing time, and I was pretty damn close. Final time came in at 4:32. It was good for an 8th place SS finish, which in a field of 21 [...]
Upgrading
I have a nasty habit of letting things go on my bike until right before a race and then saying to myself “I should really fix that, because although it’s held up to the last 100 miles of after-work thrashing, it’ll probably break during the race”.This leads to numerous last-minute purchases and upgrades. [...]
San Ysidro Ass Kicking
By the numbers, I came in at 11 hours, 25 minutes with 10 hours and 47 minutes of moving time. 11th place overall, 4th place singlespeed. I was just over an hour behind the first place singlespeeder (who was on a cross bike. Chris: you are a madman. . . )The [...]
Getting off my ass, part 2
So I finally got off my ass and . . . . went for a mountain bike ride in flagstaff.I am aware that there are probably people who have been mountain biking up here in the pines for a little while now, as things are starting to dry out in places. I’m sure there’s [...]
APC Report
Another successful race in the books.I couldn’t have really asked for saturday to go any better. If you’re one of those people that reads the last chapter of a book first, the results are posted here and there are a few pictures up from Chad and Steve on Chad’s Blog.
11 people started the [...]
SSAZ08 - That’ll work
What a race.When I got down to tucson, I had no idea what to expect. I have never ridden in tucson, I’d been on my mountain bike 2 times in the last 2 weeks, and I had no idea whether all the skate skiing, riding rollers, and telemarking was going to make any [...]
