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• An Overdue Thank You to Readers

  Last week, I found out that you don’t actually have to be fast to win at the Cross Crusade Awards Party. You can be lucky and win the raffle, like my friend Beth, who made off with a ridiculous set of tubular wheels. Or you can be unlucky, flat... Posted Dec 16 2008, 09:29 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, cycling, cyclocross, bikes, announcement

• Cross Crusade #7 Race Report: Mud, Whiskey, Mini-Golf

  I’m traveling so this has to be quick but the race report from this weekend went up realllly early this morning over at the Wend Blog. In other news, at 4:30 in the morning, after 3 hours of sleep, I decided I definitely needed to bring my pedal... Posted Nov 12 2008, 12:55 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, cycling, cyclocross, life, glimmers

• SSCXWC Photo preview

  While I’m writing today, I’ll leave you with a few snaps from yesterday’s festivities. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Also, check out more photos from Ironclad, Jason Sager, and David A. I’m sure there are many, many... Posted Nov 10 2008, 11:54 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross, bikes, photos, shenanigans

• Single Speed World Championships - The Pre-Party

  SSCXWC contenders descended upon a time-trial qualifying course at a secret location in Portland today. I was there for the start, but I had to work so I could not return to the shenanigans until later in the night when the second-chance race left from... Posted Nov 08 2008, 10:27 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross

• Obama!!!

  This video, from last year’s SSXCWC at Estacada, probably says it best. I’m cringing to post it again but - unfettered joy is unfettered joy, ya know? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog.com%2F2008%2F11%2F04%2Fobama%2F';... Posted Nov 04 2008, 11:57 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, cycling, cyclocross, life, news

• Race Report: Barton Park Carnage

  The Barton Park race report is up over at the Wend Blog! You can read it below, too. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. All photos courtesy of Stiv Wilson. Blood, rocks, mud, carnage. Barton Park 2008 will go down in infamy. Cue to the quarry... Posted Nov 04 2008, 09:17 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross, stories

• Post-Barton Get Well Wishes

  It rained. It wasn’t exactly epic, but it definitely rained enough to wreak some serious havoc. Barton’s a killer because you’re not just dealing with mud, you’re dealing with layers of mud that are concealing really slippery rocks... Posted Nov 02 2008, 07:41 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, cycling, cyclocross

• Perfect Agony: Rainier Cyclocross Race Report

  The full race report follows, but I wanted to mention that I’ve recently established a relationship with Wend Magazine and they’ll be publishing these reports as a diary series on their blog this year. I’m super excited to be hooked... Posted Oct 22 2008, 09:55 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, cycling, cyclocross, bikes, announcement, stories

• The Curse of Villebois

  I should have known better. We’re racing bikes through what is left of a former insane asylum. A few rotting concrete walls and several deadly spikes of rebar growing out of the ground here and there are the only remnants of the building that was Dammasch... Posted Oct 15 2008, 10:22 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross, adventure, stories

• Holy Alpenrose.

  Let us speak plainly. The race did not go as planned. Buried on the start line despite my early arrival. 4o-something headed into the single track. Are you kidding me? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog.com%2F2008%2F10%2F05%2Fholy-alpenrose... Posted Oct 05 2008, 10:28 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross, bikes

• It’s Christmas Eve for Portland ‘Crossers and The Sugarplums Look a lot Like Beers to Me

  It’s here. The Crusade is upon us. Tomorrow morning. We ventured out last night to Portland Velo’s First Friday gathering at the Lucky Lab and then over the Roots Brewing Company for the Cross Crusade Kickoff Party. The ‘crossers were... Posted Oct 05 2008, 12:23 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross, bikes

• Epic

  There’s only one word for it. When the remnants of a typhoon from Japan hit Portland on the same day as the USGP in Portland, the result can only be referred to as epic. The morning is black and cold and we pull into the parking lot before the sun... Posted Dec 04 2007, 12:44 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross

• Thankful for Mud.

  Sunday was epic.  Absolutely, insanely epic. Rain in sheets, mud in streams, skinny roadie boys shivering post-race.  It was a day for the books.  Four Portland Velo tents, one tiny heater, a row of trainers. addthis_url = 'http%3A... Posted Nov 22 2007, 06:27 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, cycling, cyclocross, sports

• Gold Speedos and Black Boss Porter

  I’m stroking the saddle of an extremely tall, orange Kona when a shadow falls over my hand.  I become aware of a tower in front of me, blocking the low-hanging winter sun. I look up and pull my hand away. "Were you just petting my saddle... Posted Nov 14 2007, 05:04 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross

• I Left My Legs at Horning’s Hideout

  I don’t really know how to race a bike, but I do know how to suffer. Yesterday I proved that: At 5:00 in the morning an alarm goes off on the other side of the bed and I lay perfectly still. There are rules in this household and one of those rules... Posted Oct 15 2007, 04:12 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cross_crusade, racing, cycling, cyclocross, motivation, sports