The second stop on the NUE series the Mohican 100 was the 3rd race of the season for me. The weather was perfect, sunny skies and temps in the mid 70’s, the start of the race was a mad dash up a steep road climb out of downtown Loudonville OH, when we made it into […]
Dirt, Sweat and Gears – 2009
My race report for dirt sweat and gears is coming a bit late but it has taken some time to get the sour taste out of my mouth. as you can tell the race didn’t go as planed, to sum up the area in Tennessee got 7 inches of rain in a week and it […]
Cohutta 100 – 2009
I got to Tennessee on Friday to beautiful weather but very hot, temps were in the upper 80’s and were looking to hit the 90’s for race day. Race day morning came after decent sleep, all the heavy hitters were here including Jeff Schalk, Jeremiah Bishop, Chris Eatough, Michael Simonson, Sam Korber and Christan Tanguy. […]
24 Hours of Moab – 2008
I arrived in Moab on Thursday to set up by myself and proceeded to get sand blasted for about 3 hours of set up time. When I finally got my light weight screen tent up I sat there and watched it get abused by the wind and figured it wouldn’t make it through the weekend. […]
Tahoe Sierra 100 – 2008
The Tahoe Sierra 100, the last race in the NUE series took place in a remote part of the Lake Tahoe area. Under perfect sunny skies the race went off at 7am and the pace started of pretty mellow but about halfway up the first climb it started to pick up. A lead group of […]
24 Hours National Championships – 2008
This was my first time at 24 nationals the course was much different than what I expected instead of smooth buff single track the loop consisted of tight rocky single track with some fast dirt road sections, hardly any climbing to speak of but all the single track really kept you on your toes. The […]
Breckenridge 100 – 2008
I woke up at 4am for the 6am start of the breck 100, the race kicked off under clear skies with a temp in the 40’s. The first climb up Breckenridge ski area and then up to some beautiful alpine single track was a nice kick in the teeth to get you going, I wasn’t […]
Cowbell Challenge 12 Hour – 2008
Finally a race with no rain, the course for the cowbell consisted of about 7 miles of single track 4 of it was a fun twisting and turning ride through rooty and short technical sections. The rest of the course was a burned in trail from a weed whacker that outlined the edge of a […]
Mohican 100 – 2008
I woke up at 5 am to a steady rain in Loudonville OH it had been raining all night but by the start of the race the rain had stoped and it was clearing. The start of the race was straight out of town up a very steep paved road which did a great job […]
Dirt, Sweat and Gears – 2008
First off I want to say what a great job that clay, Grant and all the rest of the people did putting this race on, when I take part in a race that has so much love and care put into it I feel good about racing my bike, this race will definitely be an […]