It was beginning to be an epic, hot, blister-causing hike up in Sabino Canyon. We stopped for lunch. I was ready to get the hike over with and was up and ready to get moving. TJ was taking his time, and I was getting impatient. He then asked for my hand, and thinking he was [...]

MTB Nationals Ugh. I had really hoped to have a strong performance at Nationals, but instead, I DNF’d the cross-country and crashed myself out of the lead group of short track. The cross-country started well and I found myself in 7th or 8th position after the first 1/2 lap and held that spot clear through [...]

Summer is rapidly closing in on the start of school, my last semester of school. It will take me 4.5 years to finish and I’ll graduate with a B.S. in Community Health Education. With that degree, I want to race bikes. While I’ve kept up bike racing through school, traveled to Argentina, Chile, Italy, New [...]

Two days ago I lined up for my first European World Cup in Champery, Switzerland. I finished in 49th place out of a 110-some starters. I’ve never spent so much time off my bike–running, stumbling, slipping around in mud. I’ve also never had so many girls yell at me in languages I cannot understand. I [...]

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For the final round of the Pro XCT in Colorado Springs this past weekend, I collected a trio of my best results to date. The race was a UCI format stage race, so for the first day we raced a time trial, day two was the standard cross-country and day three was an hour long [...]

TJ and I just finished up a three weekend trip in the Midwest. To start, we loaded up the Taurus with four bikes, our gear, and took off to Wisconsin. To break up the drive we stayed with some friends in St. Peter, MN, where TJ added a Hypoxico Altitude Tent to his collection of [...]

I won the “Best Amateur” jersey at the Nature Valley Grand Prix this past weekend racing for Specialized D4W/Bicycle Haus. I’ve had a couple people question how I can race in the amateur competition. Well, it’s really a Category 2 race within the race. Since I mostly mountain bike, and have seldom done more than [...]

The XC The course at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, CO was a true Colorado mountain bike race; which is a slow painful climb up a ski run followed by a blazin’ fast bone-jarring singletrack descent. Luckily, I had a Gary Fisher Superfly to take care of the worst bumps and ruts on the [...]

What a great weekend of racing, camping, and driving. Saturday was the High Desert Screamer in Gallup, NM which we followed up with the Mt. Graham Hill Climb near Safford, AZ. The riding in Gallup did not disappoint–30+ miles of singletrack. The following day I broke the Cat 2 record on Mt. Graham and won [...]

Instead of descending on Las Vegas for the Interbike spectacle, I’ve been getting ready for a little weekend trip: View Larger Map Point D: 3:00pm Friday departure Point B: 31 mile MTB Race Point C: 26 mile hill climb The Saturday mountain bike race is an important race to qualify the U of A for [...]

One week ago there was a horrific accident on a Saturday morning group ride in Tucson. A woman drove her car through a pack of ten cyclists, hitting 8 of them. Miraculously, no one was killed. That’s the first question I had when I heard the news. One of the riders is still in the [...]