Category Archives: Bike racing

Tour d’oh(nut)

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Kate

Staunton’s Tour de Donut is the first race I ever entered.  In this quirky race, entrants race a ~30 mile route with two donut stops; 5 minutes are deducted from your finishing time for each donut eaten, and results are … Continue reading →

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Indian Camp Creek “9” hr mountain bike race

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Kate

This past Saturday was the Indian Camp Creek , mountain bike race, an endurance event featuring 3/6/9 hour divisions for solos and teams.  Two years ago I raced in the 12-hour edition of this event, riding 9 laps (72 miles) … Continue reading →

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Dirty Kanza 2014

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Kate

By the time we lined up at the start line of the Dirty Kanza 200, it had already been a loooong couple of days. Friday started with a slight navigational miscue (turns out the GPS is most useful when used) … Continue reading →

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Cedar Cross 2014

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Kate

If you weren’t at Cedar Cross, you might just want to stop reading this right now.  I don’t know of any other grassroots race that begins with an electric guitar and ends with fireworks, but those were only the bookends … Continue reading →

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Tour of Hermann

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Kate

Tour of Hermann is a two-day gravel stage race held around Hermann, MO.  Day one features three 30ish mile loops, and day two follows with two 50ish mile loops. For those of us preparing for Dirty Kanza, the weekend promises … Continue reading →

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2013 in Review

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Kate

Quick Stats Total races: 20 Orienteering: 2 Running: 8 Biking: 7 Adventure races: 3 Volunteering: 4 Night bike rides: 3 Times crying during night bike rides: 0 Races my family watched: 1 PRs: 4 Times placed in AG: 3 DNF: … Continue reading →

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This girl will self-destruct in 10 seconds

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Kate

This girl will self-destruct in 10 seconds.  Non-training and overtraining at the very same time?

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This girl will self-destruct in 10 seconds

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Kate

Don’t worry…this is no cry for help. Rather, it’s an admission that maybe I overdid it this weekend.  That possibly my lack of discipline and inability to say no to things that sound fun could be getting in the way … Continue reading →

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Cyclocross for dummies

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Kate

Before my first CX race last year the sum total of my “training” was to preride the course the morning of the race.  This year, I actually made it out to the practice course once before the first race and … Continue reading →

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You can’t fix stupid…but you can reinforce it with money and attention

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Kate

And now a break from our regularly scheduled Thunder Rolls race reports, part 3 of which is not coming along so quickly…. The morning sky through the bathroom curtains looked weirdly dark for 7 a.m. on a summer morning, and … Continue reading →

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