On January 18th, I decided to race MTB Ayiti. The race started on January 30th. Besides being undertrained and overweight (which I like to think of as “rested and healthy”), I was really worried about the heat. It was 34 degrees and raining in Portland while I was training and the forecast told me it [...]
Continue ReadingPhotoGlimmer: Remembering Flanders
We huddled around the laptop in bed this morning, as we have done so many times before. Watched Fabian ride away this morning, as he has done so many times before. While we watched, I wondered how the women’s race was shaking out and when or if there would ever be a day when I [...]
Continue ReadingPhotoglimmer: Good Dirt in Nobeyama, Japan
2011. Tina Brubaker. My cyclocross spirit animal. At each fork in the road in Nobeyama, Japan that day we took whichever road looked worse. Pavement to gravel to dirt to thick, tracked-out mud. We kept going. Finally, we turned up a road that looked suspiciously like it might not actually be a road. A few [...]
Continue ReadingTime Tested: Indestructible SIDI Road Shoes
Working in the cycling industry gives me a lot of access to test new product and while I’m as smitten with shiny stuff as the next gear-junkie, I’m most impressed by the pieces that just refuse to die. Unfortunately for Sal, who would very much love to have a reason to buy a new, sparkly [...]
Continue ReadingPhotoGlimmer: Camp N Ride
Mile 19. You pointed to the left and said, “Look at that road.” It was the straight kind that goes into forever and then keeps going a little further. Farm road. Quiet. Looked suspiciously like it might turn into gravel. (It did.) We turned off the highway and pedaled out toward the horizon. We did [...]
Continue ReadingLast Call for InGamba Chianti Women’s Trip
When I dream of 2012, I dream of Chianti. Never mind that long ride around France – I left my heart in the sweeping vineyards and charming restaurants and tiny streets of Tuscany. I count myself endlessly lucky to be able to go back and take a few food-bike-and-wine loving ladies with me. Lecchi will [...]
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