Ouch! Oh… Ouch. That is pretty much what I sound like today. My knee hurts, my back hurts, my hands hurt, my arms hurt. I cannot believe how much I hurt. My knee is really bad. It is stiff and sore. Actually, both of me knees hurt. We got all both of the bikes cleaned [...]
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As I sit here in my hotel, after the race, all showered and hurting, it is almost surreal feeling. I have never seen or done anything like what I did today. I have never seen hills that big, I have never seen downhills that treacherous, I have never seen that much mud, and I have [...]
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We again woke to rain on race day. After breakfast we made some last minute changes to the bikes in anticipation for a muddy race then headed over to the start of the morning race. The course narrowed unexpectedly early in the lap following the traditional 3-4 grassy turns we’ve seen at every GNCC. The [...]
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Steele Creek – our first fly-to race. We ditched the van at a Trek dealer three weeks ago and met up with it last night when we flew back to Charlotte. We felt a little bit like rock stars but not quite since we are paying for every bit of travel ourselves. It was warm [...]
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We are at Steele City. The weather report for this area for the last month has been dry. The forecast had no rain in it, as late as 2 days ago. Then, on the way here the forecast was changed to rain all weekend. Can you believe it? I mean, this area of the country [...]
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This has been about the longest 3 weeks, ever. I mean, do you think that maybe the calendar pages actually turned slower than normal the past 3 weeks? It seemed like there was more than one Wednesday per week, this past 3 weeks. I am sure I can count at least 5 Wednesdays since the [...]
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Back to racing. Joe and I put together our box of last minute stuff to drag back to Charlotte this morning. We fly from Milwaukee this afternoon. We probably won’t get to the race venue before nightfall so finding a course front piece of camping might be tough. Tomorrow is another day. The van’s fuel [...]
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I’ve been out of if it for a spell. It took me a few days to get my feet back under me when Joe and I got home from the General. I was tired from that 10-day trip and I was way behind in work and family life. My body was a wreck too but [...]
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It is March 21, and we are in the middle of a blizzard. OMG! This winter just will not stop. We got about a foot of snow today. If you would have told me at the beginning of the winter that we would get over 100 inches of snow in Madison this winter, I would [...]
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This winter continues to be really tough here in Wisconsin. It is still cold, and there is still snow on the ground. It is starting to melt, but the ground is only thawed in the sunny areas and the snow is only clear where it was thin. Hopefully in another week it will all be [...]
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After the race, Scott and I drove to Charlotte NC. Our intention was to get a hotel room, shower, sleep. We managed that, in that order without too much fuss. Along the way, we continued our counting of Confederate flags, mullet hair doo’s and other things that we find unique to being in the south. [...]
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So, today was the General. I will go right to the end, for those of you that normally cannot handle a book without reading the ending. I have never understood that. I mean, if you are going to read a book, why spoil it and look to the end. I have a friend that reads [...]
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Race day. With the time change we were up before the sun and dealing with some pretty cold temps. The generator ran out of gas over night so the camper was chilly. I ran down to register and had to stand in line with a bunch of 12 year old grommets that had an 8am [...]
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This is just a quick note about the night of the 8th, here in Washington Georgia. I guess it snowed a bunch in Atlanta yesterday. Fortunately, it only spit snow on us here yesterday. But, last night it got down to 28 degrees. I can tell you that even with a generator and a heater, [...]
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Today we are at the “General” in Georgia. It is cold. I mean really cold. I know cold. After all, I do live in Wisconsin, so I think I do know cold. It is about 40 and windy. It rained all day yesterday, so things are really damp feeling also. But, before I get [...]
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Above is Joe eating lunch in the camper. It rained big time here in GA in recent days. The parking lot is a huge field of wet, red clay. We got stuck twice pulling in late on Friday night but managed to get a tow to a camp spot for the night. The wind (and [...]
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Joe and I parted ways and did our own thing after washing the bikes and our clothes on Wednesday after the Melbourne race. I spent time working by visiting some customers that live in the Orlando area and Joe was a tourist with his family. My body was not up to much of anything after [...]
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Wow. I am still feeling it. I just cannot get over how hard that race was. After the race, Scott and I drove to Cocoa Beach. We intended to find a campground with a shower and power. But, that was easier said than done. Candi failed us 2 times. She directed us to [...]
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4 March 08 Finished the opening round of the 2008 GNCC series. That was the hardest effort I have ever made. I’ve race mountain bikes, road bikes, road motorcycles and off-road motorcycles but that was the biggest expenditure of energy and mental focus I have every put forth. It took 10 minutes to get my [...]
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After months and months of prep and all the agonizing and all the training. 3 hours and it is over. That 3 hours though is the hardest thing I have ever done. It was harder than any 12 hour mountain bike race, it was harder than the Logan Utah to Jackson Wyoming road race (210 [...]
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I am actually posting this from the awards platform, at the race site. Today was practice day. What a concept. It was really nice that they had set up another course for us to all ride on. After all, it is still winter where many of us live. It was pretty good. It was a [...]
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Today we drove from Tennessee, outside of Chattanooga, to the race site in Florida. We are here now, along with about 200 other RV’s. I suspect that there will be about 400-500 bikes in the race on Tuesday. Tomorrow is practice and bike set up work for both Scott and I. This is the only [...]
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Tossed and turned all night with the stress of driving and cool overnight temps eating at me. Woke a 3am and could not get back to sleep. Joe sat up at 4:30 so we packed up the trailer in the dark and hit the road. Smooth as, all day. Some traffic in downtown Atlanta (at [...]
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Day one of a season of GNCC racing. Departed at 5am but unknowingly dropped my phone in the darkness where my wife slept. Had to go back to pick it up after picking up Joe. Excitedly returned to heading south. We gabbed endlessly about the adventures we are about to witness and congratulated each other [...]
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Today, the adventure began. Scott picked me up at the house at 5am. It was cold, as usual, probably 18 or so degrees Fahrenheit. It has been colder when we left, but it is March 1 after all. It feels like it should be warmer. It feels like there should not be snow on [...]
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