Cross My Heart & Hope to Hurdle

Meet my new Gary Fisher Presidio!  Holy smokes thats a sexy bike!  You like?  I love!
Just shy of ten long years I finally paid off my college loan (insert a serious and embarassingly long happy dance right NOW!) and have met my personal goal/rule of “no more bikes until I pay off that bill!”  (that I [...]

Month of Mud @ Moraine

 I went.  I rode.  I finished. 

Fall riding, the Trek demo truck & a baby.

I am officially declaring fall mountain biking one of the wonders of my world.

Breasts & Bradys!

Last Saturday I headed to the Trek of Pittsburgh Robinson store for the annual Breast Cancer Awareness ride.  One of my favorite things to do is ride and one of my next favorite things to do is ride for a good cause!  An excellent combination of good stuff like skippy’s natural peanut butter & strawberry rhubarb [...]

SAVE THE TATAS!

Join Trek of Pittsburgh for a fun 10 or 25 mile ride to raise funds for breast cancer research! Sign up today and receive a complimentary goodie bag.  See you there!

My 1st Cross (M.O.M. Grove City) race eva!

Yeah, my crazy friends talked.. guilted.. no, pressured me into trying my first cross race this past weekend.  Like every October I am teetering on the brink of end of season burn out and am so unbelieveabley jonesin’ to get lazy (and start making my jeans too tight cuz I ate like a pig that last [...]

OMBC @ West Branch

Lee Ann & I headed to Ravenna, Ohio this past Sunday for the OMBC West Branch race.  I love these trails!  For such a flat park and trail system it is full of roots, twisty turns and a few impressive rock gardens.  Fellow Bella, Lauren Mika, met us there and it ended up being just [...]

24 Hours @ 7Springs. A Bittersweet Victory.

With the uncertainty of a 4th rider we called 7Springs and ask if we can compete in the 4-women open catagory with just 3 riders.  They said its okay, so we said its okay and got ready to ride.  Lee Ann Beatty, Lauren Mika and I felt prepared for the challenge and started looking forward [...]

Criterium Delirium! Seriously!

Lee Ann and I were curious how tonights race would turn out with the point series over for the summer and a conflict in biking events for the night.  As we lined up for the start I just knew it was going to be a tough crit.  From the left:  Laura (who I have decided [...]

WVMBA Big Bear Ultra

*  6 hours and 7 minutes of ride time
*  I seriously heart WV.
*  I didnt know this drop was coming until this very moment, but I have yet to perfect the wheelie drop anyway…

*  I completed my most hard core (points for speed and impact, not distance) superman to date