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Ending the Year with a Bang…or a Snap

July 23, 2014

I haven’t been blogging this year for the simple fact I haven’t had much down time. This past year I have been trying to remain focused and train towards the goal of competing at USAC Mountain Bike XC Nationals. MTB Nationals moves venues every couple years, and last year and this year it was hosted at Bear Creek Ski resort near Allentown, PA. When I first learned that nationals was going to be in PA last year I was both excited and nervous because this meant I could easily go race only 2 hours away from home. When Nationals is out west, which it tends to be, it is hard to try to commit to the time and expense of traveling out there to race….so it was game on! When I raced at Nationals last year I raced in the Men’s Cat 2 19-29 and I did not have to qualify to go race at nationals. When I made the decision to upgrade to Cat 1 this year than that meant I now had to qualify for Nationals. ...

Starting 2013 Off RIght

February 27, 2013

Well it looks like racing season is upon us already! This past weekend myself and teammate Chris White headed down to Chesterfield Virginia (outside Richmond) for Monster Cross, a 50 mile cross race. It looked like a fun pre-season race and the weather looked too good to pass up with a forecast of 59 degrees and sunny….in February! So we packed up the cross bikes and headed down south for some racin’ This was my first attempt at an endurance cross race and Chris’ second endurance cross race with Iron Cross Race being his first. So weather looked great, course looked pretty flat and fun, had the potential of seeing a lot of familiar faces, and I was looking forward to a day of suffering on the bike. Chris and I both had the attit...

Racing in the Lone Star State

March 04, 2012

So I came down to Texas to do a bike race and even though at first I was skeptical of the whole idea of traveling that far for a race, in the end it was worth it. The race was this Sunday and Zach and I drove 26 hours south down from Pennsylvania to Texas to take part in Mellow Johnny’s Classic MTB race just outside of Dripping Springs Texas. You may ask why the hell drive all the way down to Texas for a bike race? Well the bike race was an excuse to come down here and gave us a destination, and once we leave he we will continue to travel the gulf coast and slowly take a week to work back up to good ol’ Pennysltucky and see places I have never seen and visit places I would never normally go too so Win-Win! Yesterday Zach and I got pre-ride the course and check it out, and it was an awesome course! I have only ridden mountain bike on the east coast and as much as I love it, it was good to see some new type of terrain an...