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  • Race Report: Barton Park Carnage

    The Barton Park race report is up over at the Wend Blog! You can read it below, too. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. All photos courtesy of Stiv Wilson. Blood, rocks, mud, carnage. Barton Park 2008 will go down in infamy. Cue to the quarry. Cyclocross at its best. Sunday mayhem. Bodily destruction...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-04-2008

  • Perfect Agony: Rainier Cyclocross Race Report

    The full race report follows, but I wanted to mention that I’ve recently established a relationship with Wend Magazine and they’ll be publishing these reports as a diary series on their blog this year. I’m super excited to be hooked up with such a kick-ass group of people. The mission...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-22-2008

  • The Curse of Villebois

    I should have known better. We’re racing bikes through what is left of a former insane asylum.  A few rotting concrete walls and several deadly spikes of rebar growing out of the ground here and there are the only remnants of the building that was Dammasch State Hospital, but the ghosts are out in force...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-15-2008

  • Death to Chihuahuas: Cyclocross Animal Sacrifice Part Two

    I had to kill a bird to get the ‘cross gods to bless me with a remount. Since then my front wheel is a magnet for suicidal vermin. Squirrels dodging underneath my mud tires, looking for an easy way to end the pain of losing the backyard battle to my anti-squirrel boyfriend. The bird was one [....
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008

  • Humility in Doses

    It’s safe to say that Molly Cameron is the sole reason that Sal and I are the ‘cross fanatics that we are. She probably doesn’t know this, but it’s true. In 2006 I started reading her blog and eventually gave into the intrigue. It was the first place I’d read the word “cyclocross”...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-03-2008

  • Pedal Until You Taste Blood: The Battle at Barlow

    Last week, reader Guy Smith of the Crossniacs forwarded me a link to this article in the New York Times. In the first paragraph, the author quotes a former coach who once told him, “Pedal until you taste blood.” I liked that. I thought about it a lot. The perfect’cross race is composed...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-28-2008
  • Breaking the bird’s neck seems like a bad omen but I remind myself that I believe neither in omens nor birds. Still, when I feel the bone snap under me, my heart drops into my gut and my sentence stops inside my mouth, without bothering to find a period. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • New ‘Cross Strategy for 2008: Animal Sacrifice

    Breaking the bird’s neck seems like a bad omen but I remind myself that I believe neither in omens nor birds. Still, when I feel the bone snap under me, my heart drops into my gut and my sentence stops inside my mouth, without bothering to find a period. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • Timothy Lake: 7400 Feet of Glory

    Mile 35: I hate Natalie Ramsland’s guts. Not because she climbs like a scared monkey, or because she’s the primary reason I am stuck on this mountain pushing gears, but because she knows what to expect next. She’s done a pre-ride. Who is she to know what agony lies around the next corner...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • Boulder, Colorado: Part Two

    12 hours in a conference chair and I’m at my wits end.   I have been eating Nectar Bars and apples stolen from the hotel lobby display.  Cottage cheese from the grocery store.  Baby carrots. This trip is going down on the cheap. I just tell myself it’s like I’m backpacking...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008
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