Over the years, I’ve considered racing the Bazaar Road Race many times, and this year I finally decided to do it. The road race in the Flint Hills is just close enough to NWA to drive there, race, and drive home in one day. The 47-mile course is an out and back course oriented mainly… Continue reading Getting the Win at Bazaar
Last weekend, I made the last - minute decision to race the Ouachita Challenge gravel race. This was the second year they would have a gravel race on Saturday ahead of the well-known mountain bike race on Sunday. Even though there were only about 200 riders in the field, there looked to be plenty of… Continue reading Ouachita Challenge Recap
The Mid South. One of gravel cycling’s biggest events. 100 miles on the gravel and dirt roads around Stillwater. Known for muddy conditions and a high attrition rate… or so we thought. This year brought dry and fast roads on a chilly day in which nearly a thousand riders finished the 100 mile distance. This… Continue reading A Dry Day at The Mid South
Coming up this weekend, I’ll be making the journey to Stillwater, Oklahoma for the Mid South 100. The gravel race is known for taking place on the infamous red dirt roads of Oklahoma. Optimism was high in the last few weeks that we would get a dry, fast version of the race. As the date… Continue reading Gearing up for a Frigid Mid South
Leading the pack toward the first gravel climb [Linda Guerrette] One of the events I was most disappointed to miss out on last year when the coronavirus shut everything down was the Crusher in the Tushar, a major gravel race in Utah that begins in Beaver, the birthplace of Butch Cassidy, and finishes with a climb to… Continue reading Learning How to Gravel at Crusher in the Tushar
Saturday morning I opened the 2021 season with the Sham Events Ouachita Gravel Grind TT. I don't typically race in January, but after last year, I was itching for some competition. The Ouachita Gravel Grind is usually a mass start event, but they decided to make it a time trial this year due to Covid-19.… Continue reading Opening the Season at the Ouachita Gravel TT
This past weekend, I made the long drive to East Tennessee for the Johnson City Omnium. One of the races I make sure to include in my calendar every year, it features a road race that finishes atop a major climb, a short TT and a crit. As usual, there were several strong riders at the… Continue reading Back to Racing at Johnson City
This past weekend, Ben Gramling, and I headed over to Oklahoma City for two days of racing put on by the students on the OU collegiate cycling team. The weekend started with a road race and a time trial on Saturday and concluded with a criterium on Sunday afternoon. Road Race The road race was… Continue reading Second Overall at the Land Ronde Omnium
This past weekend, Ben Gramling and I headed down to the Texas Hill Country for the 29th Annual La Primavera Lago Vista in search of some hard racing in warm weather. The weekend features a pair of 80-mile road races over 15 laps of a five mile course. This was the first time at the… Continue reading La Primavera Lago Vista
On Saturday, I lined up for my first ever gravel event at the Hazel Valley Gran Prix. The 54-mile course features over 6000 feet of elevation, with about 2500 of that coming on the back to back Bidville and White Rock climbs. It was a cool sunny day with dry roads, a perfect day for… Continue reading Gravel Debut at Hazel Valley
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