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Bananas: Nittany.
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Friday, September 13, 2013. I love grass crits. They are like normal crits, but when you fall down, you are not picking asphalt our of your hip for a month. I have never raced Nittany in anything other than dry conditions. I missed 2011's mud bog due to some. circumstances. Steeze Photo: Drew Armstrong. Now that I was in dead last, I figured I would burn all the matches! Day 2 was a bit more calm at the start nobody died in the first fenced in corner. ( COUGH, ANDREW MILLER. Finally with 2 to go I found ...
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Bananas: How To Be Awesome at The Trans-Sylvania Mountain Bike Epic
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013. How To Be Awesome at The Trans-Sylvania Mountain Bike Epic. Once again my last week of May was dominated by the awesomeness that is TSE. This post is going to read a lot like the last installment in the How To Be Awesome Series. It will not contain too much race report content as you can read race reports. And on the TSE blog. Instead I will offer you, my misguided reader, an insiders look into what exactly it takes to rock out at TSE. Where is the nearest beer store? IPA, Pale Ale,.
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Bananas: 2013 NE Rapha Gentleman's Race
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013. 2013 NE Rapha Gentleman's Race. How long does it take a person to forget how bad a 9 hour, 138 mile ride/race/deathmarch with 7 hours spent in total back spasm? I n 2011 I was privileged enough to be part of Lehigh Valley edition. When I sent the email to my team proposing we try it again in 2013, I hit send with a bit of trepidation. Is this worth it? Myles, Chris, Craig, Steve, Kyle, and I were selected to represent Ciclismo. The way RGR starts, teams are ordered by slowest ...
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Bananas: How to be Awesome at Cyclocross.
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Monday, November 3, 2014. How to be Awesome at Cyclocross. 2014 has been my 3rd year of paying the UCI a handy sum of money to race cyclocross bicycles. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing. 2 seasons of getting beat on pretty badly have taught me how to have a bit more fun. Here are my ways to turn lemons into. less sour lemons. Slap that guy on the front, watch hilarity ensue. The reactions you get are priceless. Beer makes everything better. Sometimes its tough to drink DURING the race. tho...I hav...
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Bananas: MASS Bikeline Fair Hill XC
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013. MASS Bikeline Fair Hill XC. Roadie friendly mountain bike courses are awesome. I'm not ashamed to admit that. I like to pedal (it is a bike after all) and courses that allow me to pedal often translate to an not completely shitty result for me. Fair hill has a lot of pedally parts, as well as a lot of turny parts where you can pretty easily hit a tree. Here is a great picture of me pedaling and not hitting trees. http:/ marshcreektraditions.smugmug.com/Sports. Lauren. being st...
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Bananas: How To Be Awesome at Iron Cross X
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012. How To Be Awesome at Iron Cross X. Iron Cross is one of those races where I have to do a bunch of things I don't like to do to race it. You have to get up at Dark:45 to get there. You have to put water bottle cages on a cross bike. You have to worry about flatting 52 times. You have to worry about dying since your longest ride in weeks has been 2 hours with intervals. (not 4 ). Still I go. Why? Blue Steel. Photo: AE Landes. What that really meant was riding hard, but easy eno...
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Bananas: THE Intergalactic MASS Relay Thinger with Mountain Bikes on Kuhn's In Law's Farm That Involves Logs and Is Awesome and Against All UCI Rules.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013. THE Intergalactic MASS Relay Thinger with Mountain Bikes on Kuhn's In Law's Farm That Involves Logs and Is Awesome and Against All UCI Rules. With a title like that, you don't even have to read any race reports you already know the deal! Funny part is my fake title is nearly as long as the actual name of the MASS relay, that by now nobody, Kuhn included really knows what the hell its called. 1) It was fun. 2) There absolutely nowhere to pass. Did you think the Cannondale team had ...
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Bananas: Rapha Gentleman's Race: East Coast 2011
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Rapha Gentleman's Race: East Coast 2011. I once said Stage 2. Of the 2010 Trans-Sylvania Epic was the most humbling thing I have ever done on a bike. After yesterday I can now say the Rapha Gentleman's race has eclipsed that. The course was published. And it looked relatively scary. Only one of us had actually completed 134 miles or more before. The Long Version of the Race Report. 30 minutes to rapture and we had one big climb left:. On the final climb we had the taste of overcomi...
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Bananas: Lauren and Mike Go Boom.
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Monday, August 29, 2011. Lauren and Mike Go Boom. Many of you know already what happened to Lauren and I, but we were involved in a car/bike accident last Sunday. We came down to Virginia to visit with Lauren's family before cyclocross took over our weekends until Thanksgiving. We were about 40 minutes into the ride when we stopped for a minute to check the smart phone and pick a direction home. We were to hop on RT 46 for a minute before turning off to get on another fun road home. In no order,. Both ca...
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Bananas: A String of Unfortunate Events
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Monday, July 8, 2013. A String of Unfortunate Events. In this post I aim to detail out the chain of first world problems I have encountered over the last several days. Feel free to find humor in my misfortunes. It has sucked. It rains literally everyday, exactly 5 minutes after I get off of work, no matter when I leave. Riding in the rain is ok, but riding in a thunderstorm is substantially less satisfying. Its also a great way to get run over. MASS GCC gets postponed. Training ride after Chesco:. I am g...
