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Category: Cycling life

Winning from last place

Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

This past weekend, I participated in a three-day mountain-bike race. Held at McDowell Mountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona, The Cactus Cup draws a few hundred competitors of all levels and ages, and is a great chance to be outside, camp, and ride and race bicycles on gorgeous desert trails. Day one was a time-trial…

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The wind at your back

Posted on March 13, 2020March 22, 2020

When I watch professional cycling, I am awed by how powerfully they ride their bicycles, especially in the final few miles of a race when. The pace accelerates. The riders stretch out into a long, skinny line. They seem to fly, barely anchored to the Earth by their skinny tires, slipping through the air, power…

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When Opportunity Knocks

Posted on March 7, 2020March 14, 2020

Opportunity presents itself in many ways. Today, the opportunity was a flat tire before I even made it to the start of the group ride. The opportunity was to get creative on how to solve this problem without supplies or tools on hand. It was to decide whether to give up before the ride started,…

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