On September 17, the ACA held the annual road awards ceremony.  After a long season of road racing, Pam Leamons, Linda Bitner, and I went down to the ceremony to socialize and congratulate the other women we raced with this year.  We also knew that we were in for some awards ourselves.  Pam won first place for the Best All-Around Rider and the Best All-Around Team for the SW 55+ category.  Linda and I won second place for the Best All-Around Team for the SW 45+ category and I won third place for the Best All-Around Rider for the same category.  Continue Reading »

I signed up for Hugo because I knew that it would be an epic road race and I wanted to do the race with my teammate Darcy. Plus, I did sign on with a racing team, and despite my age and gender, that’s what I love to do. Since I am a Masters racer, I have to pay the same amount of money as the other (mostly male) racers, but the prize money, if there is any, is not  nearly as much as other categories. Continue Reading »

If you asked a Colorado bike racer to sum up this past weekend of racing on the front range in one word, chances are that word would be “wind”

If you gave him two words, theres a good chance it’d be an expletive and THEN the word “wind”. Continue Reading »

Prior to going to bed on Saturday night I packed my bag with all the cold weather and rain gear I had. Given the weather forecast I knew we were in for an epic day in the Springs. To my surprise, I awoke to blue skies. Paul Tanguay (The Commish, Gin and Juice) picked me up at 7 am sharp. On our drive down I-25 we could actually see Pikes Peak from Fort Collins – a big surprise.  Although it was cold, at least we had clear skies. Paul and I arrived for our Cat I start. Continue Reading »

By now, most everybody has heard all about the 2011 Mead Roubaix.  a race that seems bound for legend status in colorado race lore.  one of those races where most are happy to just finish (only about half the starters did in many cats), and a select few proved themselves true “hard men” (and women).

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I dont really love crits, and dont consider them a strength, (my best finish in cat4 was 12th or 13th i think).   but i was itchin to race this weekend, and i’m training this year with the idea that crits are good workouts for my weaknesses: super-threshold efforts. (my threshold/endurance pace is pretty solid but i feel like i need a bit more pop for my rr/sr ambitions).   So last saturday i dragged my wife down to the boulder burbs for the Louisville Criterium.  Continue Reading »

About 50 daring souls showed up at the start line to contest the 60 minute early season CU Boulder criterium. Continue Reading »

This was my 2nd Frostbite Time Trial, and my first- last year this time- was my first ACA race with a license.   This year’s was my first as a Cat 3.     I spent a lot of time this winter training to make sure i didnt embarrass myself in Cat 3, or with the new team.

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