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The great thing about competition is the opportunity to find what you are capable of. Yes, you can go out on your own and in theory push your limits but in reality, for me at least, that only happens in a competitive setting. Sometimes, such as last Saturday in the Flint Hills of Kansas I…
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When I tell people I am planning on doing a 350 mile bike race typically the first question I get is “how many days is that?”. I usually get funny looks when I respond with “one” or actually “one and a half” (since it is a 36 hour time limit). Since the race begins at…
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Growing up in Northern Kansas I was used to riding in the wind. I rode in the wind all the time (around here it is that or don’t ride much of the year). However, I never litterally had the bike get blown out from underneath me…. until today. I woke up to a cold but…
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Tomorrow I line up on the starting line of a bike race for the first time in about 35 years. I had to double check my own math on that several times because it doesn’t seem possible but yeah, I was 20 years old the last time I entered a bike race. Tomorrow’s race is…
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Training for an endurance cycling event in the middle of winter in New Hampshire has of course been a challenge. Between the cold and the higher than average amount of snow the majority of my training has been indoors with the bike mounted on a trainer. Following a virtual route with computer generated graphics does…
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Back in November I got some news. I won the lottery! No, I didn’t win any money, in fact winning this lottery costs me money. Let me back up first a bit for some context… In the last couple of years I had gotten into running however a few months before a foot injury had…
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