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Slacking time is over! Not only because of the holidays being past us. I also wasn't very proactive with my workout schedule in the last months. So as a new years resolution I was planning on spending more time breathing hard.So there was not even a question if I'd do the first CCCX DH of the new year. Scott was in as well and we headed down to Toro Park, where there were steel blue skies and,

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Whenever someone is driving up to Northstar to get some DH shredding in I'm usually the last one to say no. But last time I chickened out of doing a race down Dog Bone (for those who don't know: that's a really gnarly double black trail), just didn't feel ready for it. But this time it was the Livewire classic and this trail is real jumpy goodness. Doing the race with Schlachter-Factor made sure

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After having a blast at last years annual 6hr Super D of Kirkwood I was looking forward to do it again this year. My schedule looked good and a bunch of buddies (Schlachter-Factor, Curtis and Will S.) wanted to go as well, so it was on like Donkey Kong. For those not so familiar with this event a little explanation: You take a lift to the top of the mountain, then ride for a couple of miles

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So yeah, I forgot to write race reports for the Kirkwood 6hr Super D(really fun, more climbing than expected, 1st place in my age category)and the Watsonville Surf City CX race (first race on my CX bike,blisters on my hands afterwards, 6th in the Open B's). So now a fullreport on last Sundays CCCX DH race at Toro Park.I went there together with Scott, who was the only one who I couldpersuade to

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A few months back, I noticed Isaias had posted a note about some race in Breckenridge Colorado. I took a look, and thought like it looked like an awesome course. After a quick call to see how serious he was, I was in.TI mentioned it to Katie and it seemed like within minutes her mom had booked an eight bedroom house in Breckenridge and the whole fam damnily was coming for a family vacation. (

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A few months back, I noticed Isaias had posted a note about some race in Breckenridge Colorado. I took a look, and thought like it looked like an awesome course. After a quick call to see how serious he was, I was in. I mentioned it to Katie and it seemed like within minutes her mom had booked an eight bedroom house in Breckenridge and the whole fam damnily was coming for a family vacation.(Katie

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Decided to go single speed on this one. Off the line I was spinning out again but not DFL this time. Actually started passing some people on the fire road then it was onto pavement (Jacks Road) and climbing..We then hung a left onto a groomed but very gravelly fire road that started out fairly steep. Needless to say I was having trouble finding traction but stayed on the bike. Even some on geared

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I went into this race fully expecting it to be a fight! Three of my friends from NorCal Bikesport, Curt Kimble, Dave Wolbeck, and Keith Flood came down from Santa Rosa and they are all competetive.TAnd another TWW'er actually showed up (Jeff Hane) with family in tow.Off the line I took the lead and held it into the single track. We did a small loop about a mile long before going through the start

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Saturday was technically my first "real" race as an expert/cat 1. I raced the solo 8 hour race at boggs as an expert, but it didn't really matter what category I registered as, I still had to go in circles as fast as I could for ~8 hours. Saturday was different. By doing well enough last year, I treated myself to the upgrade and earned bonus laps at several races this year (Lake Sonoma,

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I really wanted a podium this year so I concentrated on being ready for this one. I ate right, got more sleep, trained according to how much time I had until the race. The week before the race I did an epic ride that started in Morgan Hill and included Metcalf Road, Quimby Road and upper Mt. Hamilton. I felt like superman that day. The very next day, Saturday, exactly one week before the race, I

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This race was at Henry Coe Park which is right down the road from me so I couldn't miss it. Arriving at the venue it was bloody ass cold! After the sun came over the mountain it warmed up quite nicely.I've lived in Morgan hill for 4 years and still have never ridden at Coe. Many years ago someone told me that most of the terrain was either straight up or straight down. They weren't far off the

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A month ago I had no idea this race existed, after watching a video on mtbr.com showing this single track downhill at a race in Fresno called Big Sandy it caught my eye. Well after doing the SF Enduro II last weekend with my buddy Justin and hearing that 10 of the Sheila Moon riders planned on going down, Justin said lets go.Saturday afternoon we headed down to Fresno, we stayed in a hotel 25

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Having done the first SF Enduro a little over a year ago, I really wanted to make the second running of this race (I use the term race loosely for me since I just wanted to finish after making all the check points) The Start was 9 am in Golden Gate Park at the William McKinley statue. About 70 riders signed up for this day of pain. I saw my other Wrong Way team mate Erik Trauschke a few minutes

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Riley and I went to the Santa Clara BMX Track yesterday and tried our hands in BMX Racing. I recently bought an older, used Mini BMX bike for Riley that needed a bunch of work - spent the weekend fixing it up, and got the final adjustments made on Sunday morningThe weather was perfect, the course in good shape, and we both had a blast. Since it was our second time to the track (first time was

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I had Saturday slated for a long road ride but instead I made a spur of the moment decision to do this race (South Bay Racing series #2).I looked outside and saw that it was only 42 degrees and asked myself "do you want to spend 3 hours in the cold or go and race and possibly have some fun. The latter won out. Standing in the garage looking at all the bikes my head was going "eenie, meenie, minee

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I'm almost hesitant to reveal all the details of this race day in that some of you may start to question my mental capacity (if you haven't already).So, it's Friday night and I'm knockin' back a few beers but I'm not over indulging because according to my calendar I have a race on Sunday. Around 11pm I decide to goto bed but first I check my e-mail. There I see a post from Hane asking who is

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What a great day, the weather was perfect. You wouldn't think so by the way things looked when I left Morgan Hill, but as I made my way down 101 the fog amazingly lifted.Since it was Valentines Day and only the first race of the series, I didn't expect a great turnout but I couldn't have been more wrong; it was the biggest one I've seen for this series.Hell, I didn't decide to go until the day

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Ok, so here's my version of yesterday:I had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning even though I wentto bed early. However, I drove to Scott's place to meet with the othersand catch the van. And surprisingly enough, we left almost on time, eventhough Scott was part of the group ;)In Toro park we met Rich and Rafael and a bunch of other guys. Everybodywas trying to get going as fast as

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I'll keep this one short. It was a nice TWW turnout with Rich, Scott, Erik,Jeff, Dan, Patrick, and many other friends showing up.Anyways, I'm entered in the regular DH and the SS cats. So I do one practicerun on each bike, and on the second practice run, I got up to hammer and testthe legs in the uphill section, but I feel the same cramp from yesterday'sgrasshopper. Oops, oh well, its not that

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IMy first grasshopper, and definitely not the last. I carpooled with MorganFletcher and several other guys from Team Oakland, and we got to Occidental at agood time. Registered, geared up, and ready to go. This is about 50 miles ofmixed road and fire road, and if you were sneaky, some singletrack. Weapon ofchoice was the CX bike. Levi Leipheimer was among us lining up, and soon wewere off with a

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Toro Park - My second (and third) downhill race. Based on the course from the previous race (primarily the DH portion of the XC course at Toro), I decided to enter the single speed category in addition to the regular race. I finished 2nd in my first DH race a month earlier, and was considering moving up to sport for this one, but was convinced at check in to stay in beginners for the rest of the

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The last Surf City CX race was yesterday at Aptos High. They ran a version of what I think the typical course is "in reverse", which was kinda fun. Weather: perfect. Crowd: big. Times: good. Kids race: always a hoot. Coffee from the coffee stand, and burritos and tamales from the mexican food stand: AWESOME...My race: I was in 4th place for the points series, and this got me into thecall-ups,

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Ten of us showed up bright and early Saturday morning* to build a couple of bikes for deserving kids. I think all of us remember our first bike and the smile itbrought to our faces. I know I'll never forget my dad hiding a bike in my parents bedroom on christmas, and after moping around after watching my brother open all sorts of cool presents, my dad pointed out that he thought he saw

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Anyhow - here's a nice looong rundown of my races thus far for anyone who might give a flying yahoo. It's long, so delete now if you'd rather eat a worm than read a cross report. All races except for the Halloween race were in Mens B 35+:.9/5/09: LARPD #1 (Livermore): started the year with a 12/23 placing - almost perfectly at the mid-pack mark, which totally followed suit with how I did at

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About two weeks before the race, I thought entering would encourage me to start riding more, so that was the plan. 4 days before the race, my buddy and I agree to go up the night before so we could hang out with some friends in Sac, then he would hand me bottles at the race.Well, the plan was to chill at the friends place. Pasta dinner with a glass of wine hit the spot, but somehow lead to us

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I had really wanted to do the whole Northstar Super D series this season howeverlife got in the way of the first two but not so the final one of the season. Iwas really hoping for a great course something with a good mixture of flat outspeed and super technical terrain - it certainly didn't disappoint!!!The race was scheduled for a start at 5pm, so I turned up at 2.50 to registerfiguring that

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Yo,Just a quick report on the LARPD #1 cross race from last Saturday. Perfectweather, reasonably fun (very flat) course, uber-fast pace, well run race.I managed a 12th out of 23 in the Men's B 35-44. I've come to realize that thefirst cross race of the season is a total shock to my body - it amazes me everytime how totally and completely worked I get in just a 45 minute race... Agood write up can

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A pretty nice turnout of about 125 riders for this first time race. The Bigfootguys put on a great race. This 8-hour race was made up of a 6-mile lap withabout 900 feet of climbing per lap. The hard part was that the race was atelevation between 7,800 and 8,300 feetThe first lap started, and we sorted ourselves out nicely on the 1.5 mile climb,but shortly after about a mile into the downhill

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Having never been to Downieville, I did a lot of asking around and trying to find out what I was getting myself in to. All of the responses fell in to two categories 1) Dude, you are effed! That place is so hard, bring tons of water, plenty of spare tubes, endurolytes, etc., etc. 2) You'll do fineYou do the Wednesday skeggs rides with all those fast folks and you are plenty prepared. So, I

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My report:The course. Much different than the BikeMonkey race. You could definately feel the extra 400' of climbing per lap, and the new rocky section at the beginning was sketchy for a 24 hour race (in a good way, but had many people walking). The second fireroad climb (different and longer than the march event) was a death march every lap, and more rolling singletrack before the run into to the

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Another great race this weekend. This I think is my 4th time at Skyline, but the course was changed a little. Instead of the long fire road, up to the rocky steep climb, we did a short fire road burn and took a little turn in to about a mile of singe track climbing. Everyone was concerned about the Sea Otter style conga line, but I didn't hear any moaning and groaning after the race, so it

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I was pleasantly surprised to drive up and park next to Kyle, Jeni, and Justin Morgan. Kyle is always saying he races expert, and I always call him a liar, since he rarely races. Anyway, after some dorking around, lubing chains, etc, Allan and Mike Urbina rolled up. The parking lot soon got quiet as they realized the majority of the heavy hitters from Team Wrong Way had showed up. Okay, maybe

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While Rafael, Matt, and Allan were sweating it out at Lake Sonoma, I was representing at CCCX.The race was at Fort Ord but the course was completely different this time. Instead of going left at the end of the long start straight, we went to the right, onto some trails that were not used the last time. I talked to Jim, the series leader in our group, as we were warming up and he said the course

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A couple months back, I was debating on whether or not to do 2 or 3 laps, not knowing the elevation profile of the race. Then the axed the 3 lap option, and I was thinking, "I should just challenge myself and do 2 laps." Reality set in, and I didn't get a chance to ride enough and decided 6000 ft and 33 miles would be plenty. Saturday morning I picked up my friend Antonio and we hit the road.

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Sea Otter ClassicCat 2 Single Speed2nd place1:26 The race started late 8:05 instead of 07:35 more time for the fog to clear outThe race started slow and easy, we started spinning like we do and off around the trackI said hey to Mark D, and I made a bee line to the front has people start to spread out as we round the corner on the track, I notice a spinning like mad racer around a 100 yards out

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Man, I'm sore! So I've been riding pretty sporadically lately, and never know what to expect until I actually start turning the pedals over. But, overall, I've been feeling better than expected, and set what I felt was a lofty goal of breaking the 1:50 mark this year. The NVDC always is a special race for me, since it was my first ever back in 2005 where I finished with a time of 2:13:38. In

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Holy crap what a day! Perfect weather, trail conditions were great, lots of cool people having a good time, and a nice Team Wrong Way showing (19 total racers in all). First the good stuff - two podiums against some tough competition!!!1st Place - 2 person Female team - Girl Power - Jeni Brookes and Jessica de Wit 3rd Place - 3 person Male team - Two Fast Guys and a Limey - Kyle Brookes, Allan

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Guys I raced the klunker at Toro with the new wheels Jeff built for me using Sturmy Archer drum brakes. I killed it! I was on mark to a podium run on the klunker, the bike working great, brakes making a huge difference from the coaster brake race of 2 weeks prior. I was still able to out pace the brakes, getting them to fade often, but the control was so much better. And even through I broke

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Nice TWW showing with myself, Jeff, Rich, Mike, and Matt.The course seemed to have an extra climb or two compared to the other Ord races, but the course was still very fast with a lot of downhill pedaling. I stayed with the lead group for the first lap despite one traffic bog/dismount on a little step-up thing. On the second lap, they were still in my sights, but they slowly pulled away. I was

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My morning started out bright and early with a trip on BART to Berkeley to meet up with Blake Von Knopka and Morgan Fletcher. We ended up waiting awhile for an 18 year old Berkeley freshman, and glad we did. The kid had no other means to get to the race, and he appears to be a stud. So its good we were able to get him out there. Anyway, we hit the road around 8 or so and were in Occidental by

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Its been quite some time since I have raced a downhill but lastweekend I figured what the hell and headed down to the CCCX DH racewith Rich Davis.We went down Saturday for some much needed practice. The course was agood mix. The top section was super fast rollers which went straightinto a section of tight switch backs, the first of which had thebetter of me all weekend. On the exit from the

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As I was driving to Fort Ord, the weather was surprisingly clear.There was strong overnight rain and winds, and my strategy (and onlyhope) for this race: pray for lots of rain, and that no one elseshows up. Well, only 7 in my group showed up for the start (Cat2/Sport – 19-34), and Keith announces that medals only go 3 deep dueto small field (oh well).A light rain began to come down right before

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I went down to Aptos High yesterday and raced (if you want to call it that) the last race of the Peak Season CX series. My previous race, #1 of the series at Harbor High, was the one where I had my Brian Lopes spotting and really-lame-fan conversation. I actually felt pretty good at that previous race, and faired reasonably well, getting in the top-half at least with 10/24. It wasn't in the

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Last of the road race reports (until track fights in the fall?) andSeries SummarySunday was the 12th and final race for the San Jose Bike Club wintertraining series. Thanks to the track fights last fall, I decided todabble in more road racing. The series is made up of a prologue(short time trial), 3 Road Races, 2 Crits, 2 Individual TT, 2 TeamTTs, a hill climb race, and a points race. As I

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First, as the new member, apologies for the skinny-tire, spandex reports. I promise this is not a usually thing for me, and I enjoy riding the dirt more than pavement. I wasn't planning to do this report, but the race was more interesting than expected, and maybe I need to think twice about this and stick to the dirt.I entered the inexperienced Cat 5s (less than 5 starts) at the Fremont Early

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ummm.. not so great.So, I grabbed the mtb, switched from 2.55 tires to 2.0, and decided to give this thing a try, not knowing what to expect.The course is a bunch of twisty turns arounda couple of different horse fields, stables, etc. A barrier section close to the start, and a set close to the finish, and a nice run up the stairs. Much of the course was very soft due to the rains, but there were

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Fun course (Harbor High School in SC), and pretty good weather (rain held out). Really well organized grass roots event, and the free hot dogs at the end was a bonus :-) My race went pretty well except for the one water hand off that Shaney attempted with me near the beginning of my last lap - I clipped a PVC pole right afterward and went down quicker than you can say "huh?" Bummer was that I

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Hello biking folks,As a few of you guys and gals know, there is a event called GluehweinRace (mulled wine race) in my hometown every year. I couldn't join lastyear so I really wanted to compete this year.For the ones who don't know what I'm talking about: It's a race over 10laps of short distance and without major technical difficulty. Afterevery lap you have to drink one cup of mulled wine,

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Wow - REALLY awesome weather in SF yesterday, combined with a really fun CX course in the middle of Golden Gate Park, to make one really nice way to spend Sunday morning. Shaney and the boys joined me and cheered me on. The course was, as I had heard, a fair amount of single track - which was really niiiiiice. Two spots with barriers on uphill slopes made for forced run-ups, but they were

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Gin looked at the CCCX CX results from last Sunday and saw my littlesandbagmanship. I've been wanting to check out the Prunedale venue(Manzanita Park) for a couple of years now, but Riley had a Soccertournament game at 11am. My compromise was to race Mens C's at 9am(at least it's all ages, so includes some guys close to half myage). I started mid-pack and ended up picking off most of the fieldby

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Bob Roll is one of my favorite Tour day France (France not Frahnce) announcers. Some of the expressions he uses are perfect descriptions of how a cyclist feels. And most of us being cyclists, we can relate. Well, Bobke's expression for me in today's race would've been, "He went deep into the pain cave... and barely made it back out." That was a perfect description of today's race. And this

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Dear Training Diary,I thought I would take this time to log in my pre-race dinner from the night before to help me better identify on how to improve my results. Here is was my menu:2/3 of the fried calamari appetizer1 full slab of baby back ribs3/4 of the baked sweet potato smothered with butter, brown sugar, and chives3/4 of the corn bread muffin with just a little butter3 pieces of roasted

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Well the weather leading up to the race was quite nasty to say the least. Lots of rain the two days before the big race. I packed tons of clothing, two towels, a tarp, a pump sprayer full of water to hose me off with, and plastic bags to put the muddy clothes in. I was ready.As it turns out, didn't need any of that extra stuff - the weather conditions turned to high 60's and blue skies, and

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I think this was stop #2 on the NCNCA cross cup circuit. So there was for sure going to be some competition at this race. And of course I had the worst week of training up to the race - felt sick, worked out on Tuesday and nearly died, so nothing else up to race day. Nursing some sort of virus that had morphed into swollen glands and the dreaded cold sore. Not enough sleep either (although

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(photos courtesy of the folks doing the Livermore CX)Dang, I think I'm starting to like this cross stuff. My training up to this event was non-existent however - I traveled to the East Coast for work and did one workout back there on the elliptical. But other than that, nothing much to speak of other than being dehydrated and sleep deprived. So wasn't sure what to expect today.I showed up and

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(photo courtesy of the folks doing the Livermore CX)Okay, so this was my second ever CX race - nice to do one here practically in my backyard - the organizers did a nice job. Fall has definitely arrived, with temps in the high 50's and a nasty wind blowing. On a few occasions, practically knocked me over. Tougher course than last weekend with lots of grass. Had that "flat tire" feeling a

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Okay, so decided late last night to give this cross thing a go with Schlachter up in Vacaville. Brought back old memories of the Rockhopper days (but thankfully sans monster hill climbs). The venue was dry, dry, dry - the recent rains didn't do a whole lot to the course. No mud pits and actually it was quite warm in the sun (mid to upper 70's).I have never raced a real cross race before - I

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Team Wrong Way discussing strategy to crush the competition(photo courtesy of Kirt Fitzpatrick)Wow, great night last night - four brave souls showed up to the final race in the Track Fight series. We tried to get organized, and for the most part did pretty good for a bunch o' mountain bikers. The Saunier Duval dude still rocked it and we sucked his wheel a lot, but none of us got lapped and

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So I decided that I wanted to see where my fitness was and I wanted to get a taste of the road scene. Fortunately this is a very laid back event and my group was small - 10 racers. Matt the limey told me that the pace is easy for two laps and then fast for one. Rinse, repeat. Did anyone tell you that Matt is a liar? I don't think anyone let up on the gas the entire time. Ridiculous the pace.

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Yo,I had reason to be down in the Bay this weekend so was happy I wasgoing to get to race one of my favorite races - Skyline. I turned upat the venue around 9, got all setup. I noticed is was pretty coolout and lots of the expert types were going with just bottles so Irejiggered my setup - dropped the camelbak and stuffed my 2 C02s andenormous 29er tube into my jersey pockets along with some food

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Old Lady Seery kicked some serious boo-tay at the CCCX Series at Toro park. He won nearly every race he entered. And to top that off, he took second overall in the Hardtail open category. Way to go Scott!!! Show them young whippersnappers that this old man still has got game. Congratulations on a great effort!CCCX Series Results

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Sunday 15th of JuneSingle Speed Sport4th out of 6The day started off real good, Roz and I headed out for MontereyDrove down to to Fort Ord, park next to Rich HWent and did the reg thing $35 to go play, head out for a worm upand to ride the course . Ran in to Erik T(SCCC) and Menso D on a singleman I am glad I chose to do sport single speed.Race line up Sport 19-34,Single Speed,Clydesdale and

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Race-Single speed sportNumber in cat ?Place ?The race was very nice, never ridden up in Fairfax There was around fifty racers complete for expert, sport/ beginnerThe race started in a bunch sprint and someone went down in the middleof the bunch, slowed everyone down The trail was loose and technical, down hill fire road to up hill single trackJust great trail to race on lots of rock, roots and

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First, the results... well, don't have them all but here are the majorhighlights:1st Place - Men's 3 Person - Team I Coulda Been a Contender (Erik, Loren,Isaias) - crushed 2nd place by 40+ minutes1st Place - Men's Solo SS - Ty Freakin' Brookhart - I think I heard 9 laps3rd Place - Men's 3 Person - Team Pretty Fast Mofos (Allan, Kyle, Jeff) -suspicious how the 2nd place team passed you up so

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Sorry for the big gap - we raced but stopped putting race reports here. That will change going forward.

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indeed there was a race on sunday.the super chill and low key tamarancho fairfax fat tire festival mtb race. the weather was perfect, mid 70s and clear, the trails were super tight and dry, and the attendance was much larger than last year, about 60-70 riders this year. Course length was extremely short, 6 miles for beginner, 12 sport, 18 expert/pro. I almost opted for the expert ("to get my $35

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Doug Rea * Patrick Meyer * Matt LeonardPeter Sterlacci's race report:My result was not what I expected 34/35, but a pretty bad mechanical early in the race kept me on the side of the trail for a good 20+ minutes. I virtually called it a day when all the other race categories whizzed on by as I sat there cursing my bike. I finally got the bike working again and took off. I figured at least I

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Matt Leonard * Kathleen Meyer * Mike UrbinaPeter Sterlacci * Matt Cerkel * Loren Thomas

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I managed 8th/37 in Mens Open 40-49 in the Super-D. I'm happy withthat since I know our field included Keith DeFeibre (whos just damnfast, at one time raced Semi-Pro DH, and currently Expert XC - hetook 2nd), and other Expert XCers. The course was very peddly andnot too technical - very suited to those in good shape primarily, aslong as they had half-way decent skillz (Expert XCers were

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CCCX#5 - Toro ParkTWW Fox XC Cup Series - Race#1March 31st, 2007Expert 19-34Results 3/7Ok, so I've been a roadie all year. I've got 6 road races\crits under my belt. I've been trying to ride my mtb at least once a week to keep my mtb skills honed. Well the proof is in the pudding as they say and wow I proved that although I have some roadie fitness, it doesn't necessarily transfer to mountain

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Such great weather this weekend! I'm still sunburned from 2 days of bright, sunny skies. Just a quick recap of the first DH of the 2007 season. Arrived Friday afternoon and met up with a few others who had also taken Friday off to check out the course. I brought both a full DH bike (Yeti DH-9) and my new favorite, a Yeti 575 with Fox 36 Talus and DHX 5.0 Air, and DT Swiss DH wheelset. I

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Our only experience (Patrick and mine) would have to be the GGG in years gone by and watching some of the Sea Otter. Not really sure what to expect...Patrick was excited to go. The only disappointment was not having a couple of his friends to join him. We were hoping to pack the car and get some of these kids out to check into something new. We haven't given up and will continue working on it for

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Alright, first race of the year! I showed up at around 9:15 and ran in to Rich. We got our stuff together and went out for a warm up lap. Unfortunately, Thursday night I found out that my middle chainring was worn. During our warm up, every time I even tried to use my middle ring, it just slipped like crazy. But the course seemed flat enough that I could just use my big ring the entire race. We

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The rain helped create pretty good traction on this nice day down at the old Fort Ord property, but there were a few mud puddles to help get the sandy mud all over bike+rider. Drive trains were making loud, painful noises all over the place. The good news was that the sun came out for us, and the day ended up really nice down there. The bad news for Rich Davis and I was that we both ended up with

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Well, again, I had some goals that didn't get met. But I had a great weekend. Saturday Katie and I went for a nearly 40 mile ride around Woodside and Portola Valley. I think its only her 2nd or third ride since the AIDS/LifeCycle. I didn't think that would affect my race Sunday, but when I told Kyle about the ride, he thought I was nuts, of course it would hinder my performance. Oh well, it

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Well, I kind of threw this race out the window Friday night. Isaias and Ty talked me in to going out in the city to a place called the Element Lounge. Now, I heard lounge and thought that sounded cool. When we showed up, I don't think there was a single person sitting down, lounging, kicking back or anything like that. Everyone was dancing and thats just not my style. However, with the

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Hard choices, Cyclocross or Downhill, Downhill was the choice. Ifigured a couple hours of climbing would be good exercise and I needit. And Toro Park was only about an hour drive.I was happy hear the the single track in race #2 was part of thecourse. I was a little concerned with the upper freeway. It did notfeel very good in practice. And the climb was over an hour, so I wasonly able to get one

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'Cause I got's my own blizog, I'm cross posting...Finally, finally I actually felt like I was racing and not just surviving. In otherwords, I felt like I had game. I had a stratgey, I was collected, I was efficient on the bike and the technical style of the course suited my mountain biker abilties.http://isaiasjob.blogspot.com/

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Well, I went at it again yesterday in San Francisco. Katie and I showed up around 11 or so to the 3rd Pilarcitos race of the year in McLaren Park (I think it was really Crocker Amazon park, but whatever). I went to register and ran in to Jeff as he was waiting to line up for his race. After watching him take of in the 35+As, I walked over to the Ritchey tent and said whats up to Isaias as he

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Sunday I brought my dad with me, and headed down to Watsonville on Sunday a.m. for another 30 minutes of suffering with company. It was really fun though - the Bellas did a really great job with the course (loved the spiral thingy), the decorations, and running another great event. Big thank you again to Matt for loaning me his bike again. I think it really paid off on this course - as it was

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So Katie and I showed up in the parking lot at about nine to find Kyle and Gin hanging out in the parking lot. We walked over to try and catch the end of Scott's sandbagging C race, but we just missed it. After chatting with him for a bit, he handed my bike back to me and I went and registered. I saw Bob finish his race up and pointed him over to where the rest of the TWW crew was hanging out.

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Man, what a great day. It was so nice not to have to get up super early and drive an hour and a half to a race for a change. I showed up at candlestick around 11 and ran in to Bob who had already finished his race. After I registered I went and rolled around the course to check it out.Jeff came up behind me and chatted for awhile (weren't you supposed to be racing!) I hung around a little bit

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I suck, should've raced C's and flatted on top of it. Oh well, I'll stick to the B's since I like to sleep in. It was fun heckling Scott, unknowingly in front of his dad and uncle. I think he kicked some C butt though, even with the laughing over the barriers as I yelled "Thats not running!!" All in all it was a fun time. I ended up hanging out with Jeff and Shannon most of the afternoon.

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Good stuff - the Bellas pulled off a very efficiently run and fun race! There was an actual DJ spinning vinyl, if you can believe that. Results posted quick. They were smart, and had a coffee vendor too. Good coffee. (When Bonnie goes shopping, she buys sh*t. I buy the gourmet expensive stuff 'cause when I drink it, I wanna taste it.)I took the time to do three warm up laps before lining up.

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So after spending 10 minutes adjusting my shifters on tuesday night, I felt confident I wouldn't be dropping my chain. I showed up to the parking lot at the super secret undisclosed location and started getting ready. As I was pulling my bike (err, Isaias's bike) out of my car, the guy next to me, dressed in a hideous skirt, some sequin green top, a wig and a ton of red lipstick asked me if I'd

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Sorry - a bit busy yesterday and today. Heim was MIA on Sunday, but I was very happy to see Bob out. We also had a lurker from the TWW list, Daniel Abernathy (sorry if spelling is off) who not only came out for what I think was his first DH race, but he was very fast, and placed. Daniel suffered a heart attack only a few years back, and send me a note when I was posting to the open list about my

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So I made my CX debut last night at the first DFL race of the season. It was pretty much what I expected; a bunch of dudes in skirts kicking my ass. I got there early enough to do a warm up lap, but I realize now how important it is to actually study the course and think about which obstacles to ride over and where I actually need to get off. Also, thinking ahead to be in the right gear when I

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In an effort to reduce clutter on the TeamWrongWay.com site (and to help reduce my workload), we're going to put our race reports here. Exciting stuff. Idea blatantly stolen from my friend Sabby at Velo Bella. Thanks!

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