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The last month has come and gone in a flash while getting lost in not knowing the date or day of the week. In the thick fog of losing track of time every discernible moment during a race I can replay like dominos falling. If I’ve forgotten one moment during a race I’ll recall another [...]
Even though data numbers take the fore front of discussions and studies regarding athletic performance the heart and head is where it’s really at. Having good physiology of course is important but with no heart you have nothing. My heart is finally back after this weekend. It seemed to have disappeared for a couple weeks. [...]
KEYESVILLE CLASSIC As the saying goes “time fly’s when you’re having fun”. That’s been the case with the winter training season. I feel gracious for all the beautiful weather we’ve had in northern California this year that has eased some long training days. Most of the winter I’ve been riding that high only cyclists’ know. [...]
Marin riders once again headed to the rugged gold mining hills of California to compete at the 2012 edition of the Downieville Classic. Dubbed as the All Mountain World Championships, the event spans two days with a rugged, 29 mile point-to-point cross country race on Saturday and a 17 mile downhill on Sunday. Riders from [...]
The Napa Valley Dirt Classic is one of the Northern California races that usually marks the beginning of the race season for many. It usually falls the weekend before the Sea Otter Classic, the first large race of the year. With Sea Otter being such a big race the following week, the dirt classic has [...]
As with all the events Bike Monkey promotes, Sonomas was lacking nothing; great course, good food, beer, and people that love riding bikes. The Sonomas course is one of those events dubbed as a “real mountain bike course,” you know the long ones like they used to be that everyone loves to reminisce about. With [...]
Last week I got a casual message on Facebook from a friend inviting me and several others to join him for a 50 mile mountain bike ride outside of Nevada City. I naively replied that sure, I’d love to join him for an epic, but didn’t know how truly epic the ride would actually be. [...]
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