Category: Cycling
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Race: Overland 2026
The beast hath been slain. Me: Dismounting from bike at finish, hobbling away.Staff: “Sir, do you need medical?”Me: “No, I started the race like this.” This race is my cycling nemesis. When I first did it three years ago, I had pretty much the only bad day I’ve ever had on a bike. I signed up again last year hoping to redeem myself, but…
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Race Series: New England Gravel Triple Crown
For the past two years, I have faced injury or illness before my singular “A” race. This year, I was not going to allow that to happen. The result? I made a family race calendar very early, and each of us threw our names on a variety of events. I’m not done yet, but my primary race events are now all complete and I…
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Race: Circus Ride
Against my better judgement, after nearly a month off the bike and two weeks of that being spent barely able to walk, I bit off a doozy on my 4th day back riding… And it went surprisingly well despite my weight being up and power being down after that lull combined with some gloriously gluttonous vacation eating. Last year I finished second in a…
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Today was my big race of the year. All the training culminating in one day. You can time it so you can do two such “A” days or maybe even more if you cluster them around one another, but the logistics are tough with kids. This year I’d have one shot. We woke up at a reasonable time, ate breakfast as a family, casually…
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Flamme Rouge: World Tour – Fin
It has ended. A slight delay in the final report as I catch my breath and we deal with unreliable daycare, but I digress. This thing was hard. I came in wholly undertrained and left putting out my best numbers ever. I am tired. I’m jumping straight into another racing series, but it’s weekly so I will survive. Unfortunately, my “scores” from this event…
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Flamme Rouge: World Tour – Triquetra E02
Episode 2 is behind us. Today began Episode 3 and tomorrow is the final rest day of the tour. The body is feeling way better than expected. Am I tired? Sure. Am I able to put up personal best numbers just about every day? Somehow, yes. I do have my on days and off days, but I think they’re mostly on. After two bad…