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Adventures on a Bike
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These are my adventures on a bike as I prepare to race my first Leadville 100.
- Added on: Jun 25th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Arlyn Asch
- Listed in: Cycling Fitness
- Tags: racing san diego cycling mountain bike leadville
Recent Posts
At the Precipice – Riding Sonora Pass
The air is chilly at 9,628 feet atop Sonora Pass in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. I’d spent the last hour and a half climbing ever so slowly to the pass and now I was considering the unthinkable – descending the other side. “This has...
My First Cyclocross Race
Cyclocross is cool because the race course has such varied terrain – grass, pavement, sometimes mud and usually a little sand. This was not the case at yesterday’s race. The second race in the SoCalCross Prestige Series was held at a motorcross ...
How I became a Cyclocross Racer
I couldn’t stop staring at the cover of Velonews. The February 2009 edition had just been tossed in front of my while I sat munching a sandwich in my kitchen. The cover depicted a wet, slimy, muddy and yet intensely focused cyclist – I was comple...
Join the fight agains MS
For the third year in a row, I’ll be riding the 150-mile MS Bike Tour next month to raise money in the fight against multiple sclerosis, and do you know why? I ride for my friend Blake’s dad who has struggled with this debilitating disease for t...
Three times the screw
Thirty-six hours before I was to board my flight to Colorado to race the Leadville 100 I was riding peacefully in my backyard canyon, trying to keep my legs loose. That’s when I felt a terrible “ker-chunck!” from somewhere and felt my bike sag ...
So, what’s next?
Standing in front of the Leadville Courthouse at 5:54pm on August 15th, it occurred to me that for the first time in a long while, I had nothing to do. I did need a shower pretty badly, but besides that, my schedule was completely empty. Wow, what ...
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