Happy Halloween Hal Loewen
Halloween + Cyclocross Race = Pure Unbridled Awesomeness I think I like Halloween better than Christmas. And I am starting to think cyclocross is pretty awesome too. But unfortunately I am suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and cannot…
Sometimes it’s Hard to be a Woman
“Bike Like a Man”. Good or bad, it’s a mantra I use when I want to bike strong. I recently discovered I may have taken this mantra a bit too far when I overheard a couple of spectators at last weekend’s…
Fantastic Cross-Tastic (and Then Some)
Ok, how fun was that? FOG’s Cross-Tastic race at Wittier Park on Sunday offered swoopy grass stuff, fast gravel sections, muckapalooza, stairs, barriers, hills… and then sausages and wicked draw prizes. Somebody described cross races as a family picnic with…
Cross-Tastic this Sunday!
Time to get ready for Cross-Tastic this Sunday at Wittier Park. B Race starts at 1:45(ish). Will this race be another Mudbuster like Menno Cross? Or nice swoopy grassiness like St. Malo? Or something in between? No matter, there will be…
Double Cross Weekend
With two races to choose from this weekend, plus the added pressures of laundry and skinning my cat, what’s a girl to do? I decided to do some “research” (Google surfing) to weigh one against the other in anticipation of the…
CX Double Header – Next Weekend!
Time to stuff ourselves with turkey in preparation for next weekend’s back-to-back CX racing extravaganza! Warm up (or kill yourself) Saturday with a race at my summer stomping grounds, St. Malo, a French community southeast of the city. Pick your swear words…
It’s a Long Way to Portage la Prairie
Bob, Michael, Yours Truly, Eric and Nettie. Team Glutton for Punishment. Every year a small posse of riders from Portage la Prairie’s Junk Yard Dogs join a rag-tag group of Winnipeg riders for the cycling equivalent of a 200 kilometer progressive…
Cross Training
Last night, in my ongoing quest to either kill or humiliate myself on a bicycle, I attended a Cross Lab, a locally run series of technique and workout sessions meant to prepare riders for the impending cyclocross season. What is…
Nightmare
Nasty, nasty spill last night. Still can’t believe it. Thanks to all for the well wishes. 5 shots of morphine, three x-rays, lots of painful rash scrubbing, 7 stitches over my eye, 5 on my hip, torn hip ligaments and…
Doing it.
If you hadn’t noticed, I am obsessed with cycling. And call me what you will, I will do it anywhere, anytime, with almost anyone. I will even do it in the pouring rain if necessary. It’s fantastically dirty and the…