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Little late–King of Burlingame race report
April 26, 2010 – 1:53 pm
Ascutney
July 18, 2009 – 7:58 pm
My time for Okemo was 37:21. Ascutney…37:20. But since I was in the 30-39 age-group, I started 3:00 minutes after the clock started. So my actualy time was 34:20, which netted me 32nd place. I’m not feeling particularly motivated to describe the hill. It’s tough. Really tough. On some level it felt easier than Okemo, [...]
Fitchburg – Always Pray to the Cycling Gods Before and After Race
July 3, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Stage 1: Time Trail
Attendees: Radu and Michael
Weather: Rain bouncing from hard to harder. Stiff breeze on the way back. Humid!
Course: 8.7 miles or 14.3 KM (for Radu). Out and back course. Mostly rolling. Fast out and a hillier back. Typical New England rodes which required picking different lines every few feet
Race: I usually make sure [...]
“a little mechanical…”
June 30, 2009 – 8:23 pm
On today’s installment of the Mark Nicholson Smack Down we had 6 riders at the start. One we lost somewhere around the first sprint point. We waited up, but were pretty sure he must have missed a turn. Hoping he made it back ok. After the top of Tourtellot Hill (where I was feeling pretty [...]
Okemo
June 28, 2009 – 11:47 am
I went back to Okemo this year (last year’s report can be seen here) unsure what to expect. My overall training volume has been much lower (something about being a new father…) and I know that I am slower relative to other riders on the team. Finishing DFL in a men’s B collegiate road race [...]
Connecticut Stage Race Part II – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
June 1, 2009 – 6:45 am
Weather: 65 degrees, partly sunny and rained twice on the top of the same hill while the sun was out.
Location: The Berkshires: Now my knowledge of the Berkshires is Lee, Lenox, the Snobby Places. I never realized that there is a poor blue collar demographic. Well, there is big time. All the Bars were packed [...]
Connecticut Stage Race, Day 1
May 31, 2009 – 8:14 am
I am writing this at 7am Sunday before getting ready to drive back to the race:
Attendees: Michael in Masters and Joshua Parker from Brown in Cat 4
Weather: Pefect 60’s mostly sunny. Although as I sit here I did get burned somehow although I was outdoors for maybe an hour of riding. Shocking!
Getting There: About a [...]
Brent’s Battenkill Report
April 19, 2009 – 4:00 pm
Okay, I probably have 10-15 minutes to write this before Jude wakes up. So, let me preface this by saying that I didn’t study the race guide, drive the course, and my computer/magnet/both went on the fritz after about 15 miles, so I’m not going to be able to describe with much accuracy what hills/sections [...]
Yale Collegiate Race (or why having a baby is detrimental to your cycling form…)
April 11, 2009 – 4:28 pm
Well, technically, this is not a Refunds Now race since I raced for Brown, but since Brown doesn’t have it’s own blog, I’ll just go ahead and post this here. Basically, this post should be taken as a primer on how not to prepare for, ride or conduct oneself on race-day.
Got up at 5:30, after [...]