The Pisgah Mountain Bike Adventure Race (PMBAR) is a race I’ve heard about for a number of years, but never actually been able to attend until now. The basic premise is that you race with a partner, making your own route to various checkpoints in the Pisgah forest, and returning back to the start/finish line…
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Ride Fierce Women’s Scholarship: May Update
Race season is here, and some of the Ride Fierce Women’s Scholarship recipients have already completed their target events, and others are hard at work training for later-season races. Here’s a short update from each of them! Wormhole Tasha Roemer Tasha raced the Wormhole 50k last weekend. She finished second in open women for the…
Ride Fierce Women’s Scholarship: Spring Update
It’s March already (how did that happen?!) and races are inching closer, and the women of the Ride Fierce Racing scholarship are hard at work training for their events. Here’s a short update from each of them! Wormhole Tasha Roemer I’ve been training hard for the wormhole race in April. I got a short break…
TransNZ Enduro
Hot diggity dawg—what a great week on bikes! I’m sitting on the flight home (or, more accurately, one of FOUR flights to get from New Zealand back to Virginia) after finishing the TransNZ Enduro, a 6-day blind enduro stage race on the South Island of New Zealand. The short version is that the race was…
Meet the 2026 Ride Fierce Race Scholarship Recipients!
Wow, wow, wow. Everything about the Ride Fierce Race Scholarship is still a bit overwhelming to me. What started as a pipe dream to get a few more women at the start lines of some of my regional mountain bike races has expanded beyond anything I ever thought possible. This year, there were 33 applicants…
Hindsight is 20/20
They say hindsight is 20/20, but that clarity never comes if you never take the time to reflect. It’s equally true that a single number, in isolation, cannot possibly tell a full story. Though it’s an exaggeration, I feel like, in the races that mattered, I finished last (or close to last) nearly every time…
Back for 2026: The Ride Fierce Women’s Race Scholarship
Last year, I launched the Ride Fierce Women’s Race Scholarship. My hope was that I would be able to help a few women overcome a few of the barriers that may have prevented them from otherwise doing their first mountain bike race. With the help of a few friends and sponsors, I was able to…
What is the Ride Fierce Women’s Scholarship?
I asked the 2025 Ride Fierce Women’s Scholarship alumni to share a few words about their experiences… and this is what they had to say.
Announcing the 2026 Ride Fierce Women’s MTB Scholarship
Watch this space for more information about what races will be a part of the scholarship and how to apply… coming early December 2026!
Ride Fierce Racing x Take Aim Cycling
Since it’s “transfer season” in the world of UCI mountain biking, it seems like as good a time as any to share some changes coming to my race “team” for 2026. I first started racing under the “Ride Fierce Racing” name in 2021, as I was moving from racing with a team (Ronin Velosport) back…
Ride Fierce Racing 