Since 2019, I have turned my focus towards marathon mountain bike races, generally competing in events ranging from three to eight hours in length. As such, my training centers around developing a strong “diesel” engine: a steady sweet-spot pace that I can maintain for hours at a time, putting in hard efforts for the occasional…
Category: Race Reports
Race Report: Mohican 100k
What a study in contrasts! On Wednesday, I participated in the Play Roanoke’s second Disco series race on Mill Mountain, but with strict guidelines to not go too hard (and thereby “ruin” my race on Saturday). The Disco course is rocky, mostly climbing, and the field thins out quickly, allowing for plenty of space to…
Race Report: Big Frog 65
Summary The irony of this event is that it was supposed to be my first NUE series event, way back in 2020. I remember asking friends, veterans of the event, for beta, and gearing up for my first season “as a pro” and… then COVID happened. Now, two years later, with a full season of…
Season Opener: Stokesville 40k
I spent January with my left foot in a boot thanks to a late-season stress fracture, so when the Stokesville 60/40 MTB race rolled around as my 2022 season opener, I was admittedly a little nervous. I’d only been riding my bike for 4.5 weeks and didn’t feel like my fitness was anywhere near what…
Race Report: Southern Cross Gravel Grinder
Just two weeks ago, I told several friends that even though I now owned a gravel bike, that I was not planning on doing any gravel races. On Saturday, I did a gravel race. The 2020 Southern Cross Gravel Grinder was initially explained to me as a gravel race better suited for mountain bikes. Located…
Showing Up
Last weekend, I drove 12 hours to Williston, Vermont to compete in the 2019 Julbo Eastern Grind Challenge, a marathon-distance MTB race that offered a Pro/Open category. Initially, I had planned to compete in the Cat 1 XCO race, a race more similar to everything else that I’ve done this season, but with the OZ…
Recap: Summer 2019 MTB Race Season
At the beginning of the season, writing a brief race recap after each race seemed like a brilliant idea. Now, two-thirds of the way through the year, I successfully summarized just one race weekend. Stellar blogging performance there. Haha. At any rate, I spent most of the summer traveling nearly every weekend to race somewhere…
Ride Fierce Racing 