Goodventures

I was running a little late leaving the house. Rain was pouring down with bright flashes of lightning, and the ominous thoughts were already beginning. Would Melanie want to postpone to tomorrow? Will it be lightning all day? What in the world am I doing? I sent an ETA text to let Melanie and Ali […]

I should be embracing rest. I do not ever embrace it well. Truth is, I’d fire this plan right now and do my own thing if I didn’t know that according to everything I read, rest is correct. But, I never like it. I am supposed to sit down and think about 2018 goals with […]

I had to go back and read last year’s post about the Black Bear Rampage. I finished it in 4:12. I had a mechanical, but still managed to finish well in the Sport category. I was back to ride a sub-4. In fact, I predicted: Next year, I expect a sub-4 by more than barely. That […]

River Gorge Omnium is the race we choose as a team to finish out the race season. Luckily, it is our local race and has a big turnout in the southeast area. I did the race last year, and it was particularly difficult thinking about doing the road race again this year. The road race […]

[arve url=”https://youtu.be/95z1-4lf_Uo” title=”ORAMM 2017″ autoplay=”yes” /] Spontaneously, as I tend to do, I signed up for ORAMM in North Carolina. I haven’t ridden my Top Fuel near enough, and it was time to see how she could handle some gnarly single track both up and down. Too bad I wasn’t near enough trained for the […]

Cat 4 women:Tour of Southern Highland Stage Race – 3rd placeTour of Southern Highland Road Race – 4th placeTour of Southern Highland Circuit Race – 6th placeTour of Southern Highland TT – 1st placeSunny King Crit – Cat 3/4/5 women – 10th placeAaron Shafer Memorial Road Race – 3rd place (6th overall)Max Gander Memorial Crit […]

Saturday, October 22nd turned out to be a crappy day. My husband departed on a cycling ride with his buddies, and I loaded the kids up to soccer in the van. Here I am, the stereotypical mother in a white van hauling kids to a soccer field in October. Our dog, Jake, had been diagnosed […]

This race. I was on the fence but the week before had a lot of miserable rain in the forecast and the next weekend was hinting toward absolute perfect tacky trails and sweet racing on trails not usually open to the public. How could I refuse? As the days approached to the race, it was […]