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.
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Singletrack is my superpower
I don’t know why this is the phrase that came to mind as I started the Marji Gesick 100-mile mountian bike race in Marquette, Michigan last weekend, but I grabbed onto it and added it to “Stay Curious” and “Be Patient” as my mantras for the day. This spring, as I was determining my race…
j’adore ça ici
Correct me if you speak French, but I think that means “I love it here.” It’s been years since I spent time in Europe, and it really is addicting. I’m sitting in the Zurich airport now, waiting to board my flight back to the U.S. and already scheming how I can come back and spend…
Wow. Just Wow.
I opened up a new message on Slack to my manager and CTO at work this morning and realized that the last message I had sent to that particular group of individuals was from the ER in January after getting hit by a car. The subject of today’s message was that I had been selected…
THE Downieville Classic!
I don’t really remember how I first heard about The Downieville Classic, but somehow, back in Indiana, when I first started racing mountain bikes, there were three “big” races that I quickly learned about: Iceman, Leadville, and Downieville. I’ve raced Iceman numerous times over the years and plan to make the trip from Virginia again…
Let it Shine
This is the mantra that Erin Ayala, of Skadi Sports Psychology, helped me identify in the lead up to the Enduro National Championship, but also one that has kind of “stuck” ever since. The idea was that racing isn’t about “proving” myself, but about putting the skills, fitness, etc. that I’ve worked so hard for…
We’re All Scared
This last weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at the 2025 Take Aim Women’s Takeover at Bryce Bike Park. The title of the workshop was: “Overcoming Anxiety in Mountain Biking,” but as I got thinking about it, I felt like a more accurate title should have been “We’re All Scared.” Excuse the phone-only recording……
Finding Balance
That title sounds like I’m about to write some kind of self-help blog, not a race report, but c’est la vie. One of the mantras (in addition to the ever-present “stay curious”) that I’ve added to my top tube this season is “Balance.” In one of my skills lessons earlier this season, Harlan (of Take…
Transylvania Epic: 5 Days of #EastCoastRocks
It’s no secret that I love everything that is East Coast mountain biking: the rocks, roots, and jank. The 5-day Transylvania Epic (TSE) stage race serves this up in spades. I raced this event coming off of a knee injury back in 2023, and had a blast. Even though I was taking grad school classes…
What if…?
Earlier this year, some friends mentioned to me that they were going to do a “stage race” version of the Rockstar Trail, a local point-to-point ultra endurance event, during the grand depart in April. I was intrigued, mostly because the fact that the Rockstar route starts in Harrisonburg and finishes in Roanoke with 270 miles…
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