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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Picture it.. 2009.. Tuesday night.. ACA crit… I’m standing at the registration table.. a bump.. a whooops.. big smudge!! Fudge!!
Yeah, my chain might need cleaned. Yeah, name calling ensued. Them roadie people are tough I tell ya! I recall the first comment coming from Lee Ann and being something along the lines of “what did you do to that kid?” [...]
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I missed the crit tonight because of work. Bummer. Trust me I’m counting my blessings every night that I have my job, but its still a downer. Since I have no post race report this week I thought I’d make a few suggestions if your looking for somewhere to ride…
May 29-31: Slatyfork Women’s Mountain Bike Weekend with Sue Haywood [...]
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The last two crit races have only lasted between 33-37 minutes but they are completely rocking my tuesday nights! I definitely get an adrenaline rush from it and finish up feeling like I chugged a few red bulls. I love it. We had a really great turn out with 19 riders for the race, which included [...]
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I am reminded the crit is no easy task. Surrrre, its only 25 half mile laps… surrrre its only a 40 minute race. No big…. GO! AHHH! ok, find your groove mj and stick with it. where is it? nope, not there.. nooo.. did i bring it!? heck, i didnt notice this head wind on my warm up! gosh, these girls are [...]
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I renewed my road license for the first time in about five years. That’s basically how long its been since I bought my first full suspension Trek Fuel and never looked back. Weeeeeeee! Now that I live closer to the Burgh again I see no reason to not make an occasional appearance at the weekly [...]
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