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June, 2008 - A Day at the Office After a cold, wet, windy Spring, Summer has finally arrived. As the countdown to 24 Hour mountain bike World Championships ticks away, I have been spending a lot of time on the bike. This week seemed to be the week the wildflowers came out. Read Full Entry |
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June, 2008 - Guns, Cars, and Cola Red Bull knows how to throw a party. Red Bull athletes know how to bring life to that party. I recently spent a weekend in Vegas along with a bunch of other world class Red Bull athletes to do my part for the launch of Red Bull Cola. Read Full Entry |
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May 8, 2008 - Dirt, Sweat, and Gears Race Report It should have been called Mud, Sweat and No Gears. The riding conditions at the 12 hr. race in Tennessee on May 3rd were some of the worst I have ever encountered. Read Full Entry |
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May 2, 2008 - Spring Escape!!! The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of spring cleaning at home. Despite the snow that’s still visible right outside my window, the skis and winter gear have all been packed away. Read Full Entry |
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April 5, 2008 - Stage 7, The End!!! Stage 8 was a fantastic 3:40 hrs, 68 km finale to 9 intense days of racing across the Western Cape of South Africa. Read Full Entry |
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April 4, 2008 - Stage 7, A Day In The Life Of A Professional Mechanic The day begins at 5:15am with the horn of a tractor-trailer. This is the wake-up call at the Cape Epic, and for most people it’s time to put the chamois on, get their bag onto the transport vehicle and get some food in them before the 7am start. Read Full Entry |
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April 3, 2008 - Stage 6, Sand Is a Four Letter Word After my posting about Cristina’s accident, I was flooded with emails from friends encouraging me to keep riding. It was really great to get all the support from home and to know that you were all still tuning in despite my unofficial ranking. Read Full Entry |
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April 2, 2008 - Stage 5, The Scarlet Letter Even though Cristina and I are officially disqualified, I decided to ride today’s stage solo. I emailed with my coach and home and weighed my options and it was clear that the training and being able to ride across South Africa was an opportunity I should not miss. Read Full Entry |
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April 1, 2008 - Stage 4, Carnage Today started off a little rocky. We overslept by an hour and Benno had to knock on the motor home window to wake us up. I guess the cumulative fatigue is taking over and we needed the sleep. Read Full Entry |
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March 31, 2008 - Stage 3, Rhythm & Zebras The rhythm of the Epic has finally taken over. Even though it’s only been 4 days and we are not even half way through, it seems as if I’ve been living this lifestyle for much longer Read Full Entry |
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March 30, 2008 - Stage 2, Two Climbs & A Road Race Yesterday’s stage had something like 16 distinct peaks to climb. I was keeping track of them on the race profile that Ryan zip tied to my handle bars, but I lost count after a while. Today, there was no losing count Read Full Entry |
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March 29, 2008 - Stage 1, The Fun Starts NOW Today was my first taste of what this race is all about. Early start time, 1200 people lined up in chute all chomping to mow the rider in front of them down Read Full Entry |
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March 28, 2008 - Prologue The race has finally started, sort of. Today was the teaser 17km prologue on a private piece of land Read Full Entry |
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March 28, 2008 - Team Bonding I signed up for the Cape Epic as a great excuse to travel and get some early season riding into my legs. Finding and appropriate partner turned out to be harder than I thought. It’s a long way to travel, an expensive endeavor and I also admit, I am a bit picky about teammates. Read Full Entry |
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March 27, 2008 - Mountain Bike Lab Rats Stellenbosch, South Africa rests on the western cape nestled in the wine country about 30 minutes from Capetown. Read Full Entry |
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March, 2008 - Accidental World Champion This year was the year that the cross country Masters World Championships came to Idaho. The races are usually in Europe... Read Full Entry |
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March, 2008 - Tour of California It has taken me a couple of weeks to come down from the high of heading to California to take part in a World Champions photo shoot with Specialized and ride along with the Tour of California. The Tour of CA is the largest professional road cycling race in the country... Read Full Entry |
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February 15, 2008 - The Middle Finger Specialized has unique bragging rights to be sponsoring 5 reigning world champions in 5 different types of cycling. Read Full Entry |
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January 21, 2008 Here I am, finally Read Full Entry |
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