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Mind-taxing drives, epic bike rides, Bobcat encounter, copious amounts of Mexican food, and Lance Armstrong… All words which define my eleven-day road trip to SoCal and back. The adventure kicked off with a 14-hour drive from Portland to Los Angeles, which began at 2:30AM several Thursdays ago. It then progressed with a week’s worth of [...]
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One of a handful of reasons for my blogging hiatus is the Portland Veloswap. What’s a Portland Veloswap? You ask. Put simply it’s an idea I had to bring individuals and businesses together to buy, sell, and trade new and used cycling equipment & apparel. It might not sound like a big feat, but given [...]
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My two favorite things in the world are 1.) bicycles, and 2.) coffee. There are ton of close seconds, but when it comes down to it bikes and coffee reign supreme. Apparently, there’s at least one guy in Portland who shares the same passions. In fact, he so passionate of bikes and coffes that he [...]
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Today was unarguably Portland’s most beautiful day of 2008… Freezing cold? Definitely! But absolutely gorgeous to say the least.
Being an Ohio transplant by way of Montana made today’s freezing temperature pretty easy on me. Though not-so-much true for native Portlanders. Today I learned that ice sneaks up on you; especially when descending steep, rural [...]
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Another thing I’ve learned during my (almost) 24 short years is that people are lucky to have at least one passion–something which forces us to go beyond our comfort zones, pain thresholds, laws of science, etc., just for the love of it. For some it’s children, others it’s nothing, for me it’s sport, cycling to [...]
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By definition, an Indian Summer is a period of warm, sunny and subsequently incredible weather in Autumn. The climate’s a little odd, but I’m not complaining as it’s great weather for off-season training rides. However, I am a bit concerned because of this “global warming” thing I’ve heard so much about.
Nevertheless, I will continue [...]
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I venture to say there’s no Cyclocross scene in the U.S that can rival Portland’s and its surrounding areas. While there are people from coast-to-coast with a passion for Cross, I’m sure; Portland is just on another level. The aforementioned proved true (as far as I’m concerned) at Sunday’s second round of the Cross Crusade, [...]
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Jay hooked up another super rad video documenting this past weekend’s Cyclocross race, which was the first Cross Crusade of the season. In the end, thousands of people showed up and Guinness had 3 riders in the top 10 of more than 90 starters; Garren WON, Jay took 8th and I rolled in at 9th. [...]
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In short, it was a weekend full of debauchery, questionable athletics, cyclocross and, on a more spiritual note, true love. Wait…that’s not to say debauchery, copious amounts of alcohol coupled with bicycles and a guy in a speedo isn’t spiritual. Never-the-less, here’s what went down, in chronological order of course:
The weekend kicked off with [...]
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That’s the only way to explain today’s Battle of Barlow Cyclocross Race, CHAOS!
After two solid days of rain I woke up knowing today’s cyclocross race was going to be a flippin’ mess. Actually, that’s not not entirely true because I don’t entirely remember waking up this morning. Why? The evening before saw copious amounts of [...]
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So I got a few emails asking where I’ve been during the past week. Actually, I got one email and, needless to be said, it was from my mother. Anyways, it has been a pretty crazy week. Not crazy like me getting married, having a kid or catching a deadly virus, but crazy in the [...]
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Sunday I participated in the Oregon State Time Trial Championship. For the not-so-cycling-savvy, a time trial (TT) is one of three race formats in competitive road cycling (time trials, criteriums and road races.) In a time trial it’s just the rider against the clock and typical race strategy is thrown right out the door; it’s [...]
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Yesterday I blogged about arguably the worst day in the sport of cycling. Much to my dismay, I lied, yesterday was not the worst day in cycling; instead, today was. Today started with another exciting stage, one said to be the most difficult of all 20 and it was a number of riders final chances [...]
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For those of you who regularly read Penny For A Thought, it probably comes as no surprise that cycling is my favorite sport. My passion for the sport goes beyond my own participation in bike races, as I follow and know close to everything about the professional level of the sport. Domestically, interest in [...]
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Well, it’s the moment y’all you have been waiting for…The verdict of today’s race. Put simply, today could not have gone much better than it did. Actually, it would have been best if I was able to go on a solo breakaway to make up the mere 35 seconds keeping me out 1st place in [...]
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