2010 National Cyclocross Championships
Bend, Oregon - December '10
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Dr. Martha Iverson - 1st Place - National Champion
Dr. Martha Iverson - 1st Place - National Champion
Richard Bagienski - 18th Place - Not A Douche
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12/23/10
Carmens's Winning Cyclocross Bike - For Sale (Bargain of the year!)
Cannondale Caad 9 CX - 2010
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Team Monavie/Cannondale team colors, white & blue special edition
Size: 48cm (if you ride a 50 - 52 road frame this will fit you perfectly)
Parts:
Crank - SRAM Force BB30 standard (chain rings 39/46)
Front Break - Shimano
Rear Break - Avid Shorty 6
Font/Rear Derailure - SRAM Rival
Stem/Bars - Cannondale C2
Seat Post - Carbon TruVativ
Break/Shifter lever - SRAM Rival
Cassette - Sram Rival 12-27
Seat - San Marco Aspide
Fork - Easton ec 90 x
Wheels: DT 240 hubs, sapin, cx ray bladed spokes, Kinlin 30mm rim, 1460gr light
clincher wheelset
Skewers: Tune skewers, 55gr the pair, those retail for $100 alone
Tires - Schwalbe Racing Ralph cross tire
Awesome Bike - Maybe rode 20times...used for local series cross season. Very little toe overlap for this size bike. Light weight, in great condition!
Sale Price $1500 - NOW $1200
If you have any questions feel free to email me: carmensmall@yahoo.com
12/16/10
Todd Wells - 2010 Pro Cyclocross Champion - And Runs Over People
Meg (wife) overcome with joy that Todd ran over Jeremy Powers
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The win makes it Three National Titles
this year for Durangoan and Olympian
Todd Wells
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“This has been the best season of my life domestically,” he said. “It’s never come together for me like this where I could get all three jerseys… It was a goal of mine."
Dr. Robert (Tino) Sonora - A Christmas Miracle
Tino shows how it's done. Both on the bike, and in the classroom.
"Economy showing some solid, positive signs"
This said by Dr. Sonora, Economist
Read the Herald article HERE
"I am aware that most of my synopses of the economy have been, shall we say, less than favorable – but it is time to look for some positives." ... "I won’t say we are out of the woods until everything is trending in the right direction, but today’s snapshot at least lends us some hope for the holidays."
Robert “Tino” Sonora is an Assistant Professor of Economics and co-director of the Office of Economic Analysis and Business Research at Fort Lewis College.
Reach him at sonora_t@fortlewis.edu
(Scribes Note: You saw it here. Tino is finally pointing the arrow up)
12/10/10
Durango's Ned Overend - 2010 National Cyclocross Champion
Buh Bye...
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Ned Overend
2010 National Cyclocross Champion
2010 National Cyclocross Champion
Bend Oregon - December '10
“The course was changing all the time,” explained Overend.
“It was kind of dicey on that first lap,
but then I was able to bridge up to Norm and
put it down on the grass areas.”
“It was kind of dicey on that first lap,
but then I was able to bridge up to Norm and
put it down on the grass areas.”
Durango's Walt Axthelm - 2010 National Cyclcross Champion
Walt Axthelm
2010 National Cyclocross Champion
2010 National Cyclocross Champion
Bend Oregon
"Axthelm repeated as the 75+ champion, and he doesn’t look likely to be quitting any time soon. He lined up and raced with the 70+ group, and would have been on the podium in that group as well. In fact he was off the front until a botched remount resulted in his saddle separating from the rails. Half a lap later he made a visit to the pits and continued his title-winning ride."
It begs the question... "Where were his testicles at the time of the Botched Remount"? It's a really really tough sport.
Durango's Martha Iverson - 2010 National Cyclocross Champion
Martha Iverson
2010 National Cyclocross Champion
Bend, Oregon - December '10
Bend, Oregon - December '10
12/9/10
Michael Engleman Folklore
(Click on the Pic to enlarge - you can actually see the downtube shifters!)
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Michael Engleman (left)
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Michael Engleman (left)
Durango Retro Glory
This poster is seen in the bathrooms of fine establishments,
across the country.
across the country.
Congratulations Michael, may Gosh be with you.
12/4/10
Screamin' Deal on Bulldogs (tires!)
Hutchinson Bulldog CX Tires
700x34, TLS, tubeless ready. Brand New. $39.00
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(clearing out what we don't need, have 11 tires left)
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Michael Engleman a
US Women's Cycling Development Program
970.769.4292
12/3/10
Durangoan Max Thurston - Captain, On and Off the Field
Max Thurston #60
Receiving Top Honors from DHS, and from the League
Congrats to a Young Mennonite
11/20/10
Russian Cycling - The Next Frontier
(Press "Play")
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Inspired by Cyclocross, these are Russian Mennonites
11/19/10
Durango's Carmen Small - BIG WIN IN JAPAN !!!
(Carmen on Left)
Carmen Small
Tour de Okinawa
In a Breakaway of 4 riders
then Solo at 1 km for the WIN
Durango's Ben Sonntag Currently in 1st Place - Costa Rica
Ben Sonntag
almost at the line (in first place) in Stage 1
La Ruta - Costa Rica
FLC - National Champions - the Podium Pic 2010
Fort Lewis College
in the Red White & Blue
2010 National Mountain Bike Champions
11/12/10
Boure has what we need...
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Perfect for cool rides.
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Boure also has Jerseys of the same material.
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Click HERE for Boure, info and ordering.
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(I have NO financial, or ANY other gain for promoting Boure
Simply, the Fabric and Fit are Fabulous)
11/4/10
Durango's Shonny Vanlandingham - 2010 Xterra World Champion
Shonny Vanlandingham is a World Champion
Vanlandingham, a longtime Durango resident, climbed to the top of the world’s podium in Hawaii last weekend when she won the 2010 Xterra World Championship on Maui.
“This is my third year on the Xterra circuit, and I made it my goal, although it was a lofty goal, to win the championship in my third year at the age of 41,” Vanlandingham said on the Xterra World Championship website.
Vanlandingham also is a primary figure in a major fundraising effort at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango.
David Bruzzese of Mercy has been working with Vanlandingham on a campaign to raise funds for mammogram screening at the Mercy Regional Breast Care Center.
Mercy is offering Shonny Vanlandingham Signature Series cycling jerseys for sale online. The cycling garment is the follow-up jersey to a jersey that was named the “Jersey of the Year” by Bicycling Magazine.
“Shonny takes the time to help her local community. We really appreciate that,” Bruzzese said.
From her standpoint, Vanlandingham said: “I was honored to be a part of it.”
I Took a Bike Ride the Other Day - Scott Smith
I Took a Bike Ride the Other Day
I took a bike ride the other day
The fall air was crisp but still OK
The leaves on the road under my tires
Crackling like hot roaring fires
I took a bike ride the other day
Alone with my thoughts far away
The solitude of a late season ride
No pace lines or bikes at my side
I took a bike ride the other day
Couldn’t wait to spin without delay
Down the road without a care
Another thirty miles if I dare
I took a bike ride just today
I’m addicted - what can I say
Scott Smith
Halloween Phun at Phil's World
(Click on the Pic to Enlarge)
Mountain Biking at Phil's in Costume
Phollowed by
Phabulous Party Accoutrements
Fort Lewis College Wins the National MTB Championship
The Nation's Best Collegiate Mountain Bike Team
Fort Lewis College - 2010 Division I Champs
Lake Tahoe, California
Fort Lewis College Wins the National MTB Championship
Collegiate National Championships
Near Lake Tahoe - California
Fort Lewis College Racer Sage Wilderman Top Step
Kaila Hart 5th (on far right)
Women's Division I Overall Omnium
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The Men's Mountain Bike Team also won.
The National Collegiate Championship winner is determined by adding the points for the Men's AND Women's teams over 4 days of racing: Cross Country, Short Track, Downhill, and 4x Slalum (think 4 folks racing downhill at the same time, on the same course, with carnage).
Congrats to the team, their Coach Matt Shriver, and their Team Manager Dave Hagan.
Carmen Small at the Road World Championships in Australia
Carmen Small (Center)
The top 7 US Women selected for Worlds
10/28/10
Durango's Coach Steve Ilg With Info You Need
Coach Steve Ilg, USCF/RYT/CPT
Helping set a new course record in the 2004 Furnace Creek
508-mile Race through Death Valley, CA
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"Yoga is the only training discipline that complements all sports
yet contraindicates none of them."
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Let's forget about all the cycling equipment and expensive tweaks you've purchased over the past, say 3 years.
Let's trade ALL of it for something that is endlessly more vital to your enjoyment, performance, and spiritual transformation through cycling: a flat spine while riding.
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A flat spine? Uh...yeah...a flat spine? Did I stutter or something?
Riding a bicycle with your elbows soft and low, and your spine flat - like your kitchen table instead of hunched over like a sad sack of potatoes - will achieve at least 1-2 mph more speed to your riding instead of the idiotic fractions of seconds presumed to save you by pencil-necked bicycling engineers with stocks in their company urging you to buy fancy wheelsets, cranks, and of course seat stems. Thank God I have an integrated carbon seat stem!
I recall a Los Angeles Times reporter interviewing me after my team's record-setting effort through the supra-heat and heights of the Furnace Creek 508-mile Race through Death Valley, CA.
"I was in your support van cruising along side you. When I reviewed the video of you a couple weeks later, I was so fascinated by your low body position, that I freeze-framed the DVD and the Ilg’s cycling form became a zen-koan, “How does he do that?” I kept saying to myself."
The reason why my flat back was at issue is that many of the cycling world’s top experts on positioning talk about achieving a flat back is key to good cycling. Yet few attain it.
Why is a flat back key to cycling performance?
One reason is more power; A flat back lets you ride faster because it provides an ideal platform for quads and glutes to push-off against, almost like a wall.
Another reason, probably the most important, is injury prevention. As cyclists have aged-up over the last couple of decades with the sport’s continued popularity, back pain has replaced knee pain as cycling’s number-one injury. And the cause of a cyclist’s back pain, many experts say, typically can be traced directly to the bent-over riding position, which flexes your spine in the exact opposite way that it was meant to flex. While a young body can recover from this position, decades of of riding with a rounded back eventually can cause “creep” — a stretching of the ligaments that string the vertebrae and the discs between them together. As the ligaments weaken, so does their ability to keep the back aligned. Result: A high incidence of back pain for cyclists.
It’s great to tell people to ride with a flat back. Yet, it’s obvious that very few actually achieve this position. What good is focusing on proper pedaling cadence and lactate thresholds when you can’t ride because your back’s out or that your pelvic horizontality is 60/40 in favor of your dominant leg? Where are the tools —the instructions—we need to get our backs and aligned hip power and other key elements of our cycling
foundtions!?
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I can answer those questions with one word: "Yoga."
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Yoga is an ideal compliment to all sports — especially for the limited motion and odd positioning of cycling. My deep involvment in both bike racing (i edited the USCF Cycling Manual) and yoga at high levels as led me to develop a number of cycling-specific yoga routines that simultaneously serve as antidote and supercharger. One class with me and you will ride better the moment you hop on the bike.
Oh, like you have something MORE important to work on over the winter than getting a flatter back, more open, powerful hips, and a stronger core?
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Hope to see you this winter in the Practice Cave...
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Hope to see you this winter in the Practice Cave...
head bowed,
coach steve ilg
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Coach Ilg teaches his High Performance Yoga™ classes 3x weekly at The HUB (which he calls, 'The Cave of Champions'): Mondays; 5:30 - 7:00pm, Wednesdays; 10-11 am, and his infamous Secret Weapon of All Athletes; his HP PROP Workout™ Wednesday evenings from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Ilg has competed in 7 World Championships in 5 Different Sports and was named, "America's MultiSport Mutant" by OUTSIDE Magazine. He has authored 5 books in 13 different languages.
Carl (Durango Coffee): Drama at Levi's Gran Fondo!
Gran Fondo - California
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The weather was perfect. We started out at 8 am from Santa Rosa with 6000 people this year. As we left Santa Rosa in the mob it took 20 miles to thin out. By then we had traveled by narrow roads through the wine vineyards and were starting into the redwood forests. We passed through these huge redwoods that were just far enough apart to drive a car through. So what did they do? They put the road there. The tree trunks were as wide as a car too. They were tall and it was dark in there.
About mile 42 we started to climb out of the redwoods and climb and climb and climb on a road that was wide enough for one car. 12- 18 % grade for the next 6 miles. Finally made it to the top and out into the sunlight and onto the coastal meadows. Lunch was the next stop at about mile 50 at the top of Kings Ridge. Then what goes up must go down. You thought lunch but no I meant the road. We descended a bit and then back up another 12 -14% grade. Ok then down one more time. The descents were as steep and narrow as the climbs. More redwoods to miss on the way down. Then..... thump, thump, thump coming from my back wheel on the way down. 30 mph. Some crazy curves, steep and kind of dark in the trees. My rim started melting from the brakes. Oh my! I didn't know they could do that? :-( Should I start walking? The rim was barely holding my tire on. I still had 40 miles to go with another 3 miles descent on an 18% grade down to the ocean. But first I had another 14% grade to climb. I wasn't sure if my wheel was gonna hold me. Drama !-)
Well it held for the rest of the ride but it is toast. The descent to the ocean was spectacular on just the front brake. Pictures attached. What a great route. Then one more 14% grade for a couple miles to climb and descend leaving the coast on the way back into Santa Rosa through the vineyards.
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So I never caught up to Levi, Taylor Phinney, Ben King the new young US pro champion, Steve Cozza and Dr Mc Dreamy on Grey's Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey. That is the picture of Levi and Patrick while being interviewed on stage talking about their charities at the end of the ride.
All for now,
Carl
10/26/10
Hydration Info Made Easy
Things to consider:
High sugar drinks can slow hydration. A cheap simple recipe for hydration fluid:
1 liter water
1 tsp salt, NaCl
1/2 tsp salt substitue, KCl
8 tsp sugar, helps ion uptake
4 oz orange juice or similar, for flavor (optional)
This recipe has much less sugar and more electrolytes than commercial brands. The addition of KCl is similar to the WHO and UNICEF formula. You can make gallons of this stuff for a couple of bucks.
Cheers!
Gregg from the California Congregation
High sugar drinks can slow hydration. A cheap simple recipe for hydration fluid:
1 liter water
1 tsp salt, NaCl
1/2 tsp salt substitue, KCl
8 tsp sugar, helps ion uptake
4 oz orange juice or similar, for flavor (optional)
This recipe has much less sugar and more electrolytes than commercial brands. The addition of KCl is similar to the WHO and UNICEF formula. You can make gallons of this stuff for a couple of bucks.
Cheers!
Gregg from the California Congregation
10/19/10
10/8/10
Deep Vein Thrombosis - Up Close and Personal for Cyclists
BLOOD CLOTS IN LUNGS INCREASING AMONG ATHLETES
by: Rich Bagienski
Martha Iverson and Rich Bagienski returned from St. Johann Austria after racing in the UCI Master World Cycling Championships, late August of this year. Iverson, a former world champion, was 4th in the time trial and 6th in her road race. Bagienski was 39th in the TT and 54th in the road race.
Rich works hard in the 90F heat and sun. Martha climbs in the cold and rain.
He then said “Less than a year ago I didn’t know if I would ride again, much less race. Last December I was diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot in my left leg. The clot broke several times, the pieces traveled through the heart, and lodged in the lungs. I now had eleven pulmonary emboli, blood clots in the lungs. Needless to say I was hospitalized and place on blood thinners for 4 months. I’d like to share some info that may help lessen your odds developing a DVT.”
All the following info is from my experience, web information, professional athletes, and conversation with ER doctors and sports medicine MD’s.
The DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS, DVT, and PULMONARY EMBOLISM, PE, rates are increasing in athletes. This includes runners, cyclists, and triathletes. The initial clots result when blood does not circulate properly and pools in the veins. About 80% of PE’s are the result of clots moving from the deep veins of the legs, DVT, into the lungs. There are many reasons for DVT formation, but I’ll list the ones that mostly effect athletes.
1.DEHYDRATION essentially thickens the blood and requires more force to move the blood.
After a long race or hard ride REHYDRATE. Water alone won’t due it. Use drinks that contain electrolytes for faster re-hydration. Some athletes require IV feeds because they are too dehydrated. When on the road to re-hydration your urine will be normal color, not dark or clear.
2.INJURIES and INFLAMATION can cause a section of the vein to malfunction and not operate to help push the blood.
Use compression hose after the event and when traveling. This helps recovery. They also help the blood flow in the legs.
3.SLOW CIRCULATION caused by low blood pressure or a slow heart rate.
Sitting in one position when traveling will lower your heart rate, decrease blood pressure, and may restrict vein diameters. Sleeping in the car or plane increases these affects. Recover before you travel. Even if it means traveling the next day. When traveling, take the time to walk around and do knee bends. Every 60 to 90 minutes is good. This stimulates the muscles, elevates heart rate, and raises blood pressure thus increasing blood flow.
Again, use compression hose when traveling. They are available in knee high, thigh high, or full panty hose. Many athletes you see in magazines and on TV wear these leggings.
4.GENETICS can increase the odds of a DVT.
Special blood tests are done to check for certain protein and enzyme levels when blood clots are discovered. These proteins and enzymes control the blood clotting. If your tests are abnormal, you may require the blood thinner regimen beyond the time initially determined by your physician.
Other contributors to a DVT are congenital abnormalities of venal anatomy, May-Thurner syndrome, cervical rib causing an outlet obstruction, and problems with the vena cava, the main abdomen vein.
COMMON SYMPTONS of DVT and PE
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DVT: PE:
1.Swelling of leg or arm 1. Shortness of breath
2.Pain in leg or arm. May only feel like a sore muscle 2. Sharp stabbing chest pain, especially when breathing
3.Discoloration of leg or arm 3. Rapid heart rate
4.Continuous tingling sensations when leg or arm is still 4. Coughing up blood or blood streaked sputum
Lastly, the death rate for untreated PE is 18-30%, and the death rate for treated PE is 1-5% depending on the survey. It took my experience with the PE to realize mediocre is good.
(Scribes Note: Thanks Rich for the current and important information.)
Walt Axthelm - Powered by ASEA
ASEA Makes Big News in the Cycling World
By: Walt Axthelm
Technical editor Richard Cunningham has been putting the ASEA product through the paces for about 90 days, and his article in the July issue of Road Bike Action gives a glowing endorsement of our product's effectiveness in aiding in athletic endurance, performance, and recovery.
Some excerpts:
"Independent tests with ASEA...discovered that athletes, on average, could push 10 percent longer at their maximum thresholds with high results in the 30-percent range and lows around 7 percent. After testing the stuff for three months, I'd have to agree with them. We could pedal harder longer and recover from repeated, 100-percent efforts in ridiculously short intervals."
"ASEA quietly powers up the muscles, dramatically reducing recovery times after over-the-top efforts, and it enables you to push precariously close to the anaerobic threshold for prolonged periods of time.... Typically, ASEA users can go hard over and over again and count on a full recovery within a few minutes. I addition, it is possible to push harder on the pedals for extended periods without going anaerobic."
"Most people simply feel fresher and more energetic when using the stuff. Residual muscle pain and soreness is considerably reduced during a hard ride, so it encourages riders to push even harder."
"Hi-Torque has a long-standing policy of not recommending any supplement or drug for cycling, partly for liability reasons, and also because we lack the resources to do double-blind scientific evaluations of every compound that claims to enhance performance. We can say, however, that our three-month trial use of ASEA substantiated Dr. Samuelson's laboratory results of preliminary Athletic study of ASEA."
This is great validation for ASEA! A credible, professional magazine editor performed his own tests on ASEA, and found fantastic results!
For More Information Contact:
Walt Axthelm
http://www.old1.teamasea.com/
http://www.old1.teamasea.com/
970-247-8520
Edgar "Fast Eddy" Reicke - Two Beauties For Sale
Trek Madone 5.9 2006 in pristine, like new condition. 54 cm frame, all Shimano 7800 Dura-Ace components. Crankset 53/39. Cassette 12-25, 10 speed. Carbon frame, seat post, handlebars, and stem. Race X Lite wheels. $1900
Trek Madone 6.9 2010 in pristine, like new condition, 56 cm frame, all Shimano 7900 Dura-Ace components. Compact double drivetrain: crankset 50/34, cassette 11-28. All XXX Race carbon: frame, wheels (Bontrager XXX Lite, carbon), seat post, handlebars, and stem. $4500
Contact Edgar Riecke
10/2/10
The Best Blaze Yet
(Click on the Image to see a larger version)
The Best Blaze Yet
"Thank You" To All of the Church Congregants That Participated
This Is The Bike Deal Of The Year
Giant TCR Advanced SL
Medium (50cm actual seat-tube/55.5 top-tube)
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DuraAce 7900 with TRP R960 brakes (red), Shimano 7850 tubeless wheels/Hutchinson Fusion2 tubeless tires, Shimano 7800 cogset (12-25). Giant GRC carbon bars (42cm), Giant carbon stem (90cm but can trade out for different length) Giant carbon bottle cages, Giant Continuum W wireless computer, Selle Italia Signno saddle (new), grey Hudz, GoreTex cables and housing. aa
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(Scribe's Note: Here's why it's the best deal of the year):
"This is the last bike we have to sale from 2010. Trying to meet budget for the rest of 2010 so my personal bike has to go. This was my personal bike, which I got in April and I only get to ride a few weeks a month. I put on a newer set of wheels and the tires have a little use so I will throw in a new set of Hutchinson Fusion 2 tires and a few other extras. This bike would be around $7000 new. Selling it for $3000.00."
Michael Engleman
m.engleman@uswcdp.org
United States Women's Cycling Development Program
Florida Congregant at the Top!
The Mt Washington Hill Climb
Florida Mennonite Michael Herman On Top!
Wearing the DWC Colors with Pride
9/16/10
Local Lauren Hall wins the Gateway Cup!
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Lauren Hall
(Team Vera Bradley )
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Sharing the overall series podium with Shontell Gautheir (Colavita-Baci) and Laura Van Gilder (Mellow Mushroom). Hall landed in the leader’s jersey on the final day of the series.
“This is for everyone who believed in me all season -- for everyone who told me I could do it. I’m so happy to finally prove them right,” Lauren said.
9/15/10
A Small Giant for Cyclocross Season
One More from the United States Women's
Cycling Development Program
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2010 Giant TCX Cyclocross Bike
Size Small
Brand New
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Shimano Ultegra 6700 STI Shifters, front and rear derailleurs. Shimano Ultegra 6600 crankset (172.5-38x46) Mavic Ksyrium Equipe wheelset with Hutchinson tubeless ready CX tires, FSA stem, Aerus carbon bars, Origin8 brakes. $1850.00 (Retail $2300)
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For More Info:
http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-US/bikes/model/tcx/3889/37116/
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Michael Engleman
US Women's Cycling Development Program, Inc
970.769.4292
m.engleman@uswcdp.org
9/14/10
Safety and Etiquette for Boobs
A Word on
Safety and Etiquette
Safety and Etiquette
When one hears "Car Back"
the folks riding abreast must move in.
the folks riding abreast must move in.
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An easy way to do this is for the Outside Rider to Point with Right Hand to a spot in the paceline. The Inside Rider must then Slow-Pedal (DO NOT BRAKE) allowing a gap to appear.
The Boob on the Left
(the rider abreast)
then moves in.
(the rider abreast)
then moves in.
Mennonites have indeed been riding safely and with good etiquette.
Let us do so on purpose with the grace of Gosh.
9/11/10
Kristin McGrath Wins The Green Mountain Stage Race
Durango's Kristin McGrath
Overall Winner
Green Mountain Stage Race
September 2010
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Kristin was hit by a car last December (on her bike)
and had a badly broken leg.
Surgery, rehab, determination.
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She's baaaack!
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