#TJROW

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HEY!  GUESS WHAT?!?

I’m doing the Ride On Washington - riding from Boston to DC over five days.

I’ll be joining Internet superstar Chandler Delinks, leg juice wizard Pete Smith, best friend in the world Tim Johnson, and, um, other people?

I don’t know who else.

We’re raising money for Bikes Belong, which is super important to me because I ride my bike a lot.  If you read this site often, or follow my Internet presence, you understand that I ride my bike to work.  And by working to make cycling safer and easier for people, Bikes Belong makes my commute better.  That’s two hours and twenty minutes PER DAY that Bikes Belong is trying to make better!

And the more people that ride bikes, the more people are healthy, the less we spend as a country on health care, the longer people live, the better everything is!  And then we can build more amusement parks with the saved money.

Hopefully I’ll be making more #TJROW-related posts regarding my PREPARATION (aka studying townlines along the route so I can WIN) to constantly remind you to support my ride!  So do that.  Please.  For the bikes.

Cross Nationals Conclusions

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Here are some things that I learned at nationals:

  1. Pitting is stressful, and I’m really glad that it wasn’t super muddy during the elite men’s and women’s races.  Or else Mr. Katie Compton and Stu Thorne would have murdered me for my spot in the pit wash line.
  2. Running around like a maniac is tiring.
  3. Free Grape Nuts is fantastic.
  4. Food in Madison is cheap as hell.
  5. So is beer.

I think that is all.

It was a fantastic (and exhausting) few days, and it was great to meet so many people from the Internet.

One of the most amazing things that happened during the weekend was when I Tweeted “I’d like a coffee,” and Hilary replied with “I am at a coffee shop, would you like one?”, to which I said “Yes please!”

And then she brought me one.  HELL YEAH INTERNET.  Please note that we did not meet one another prior to this coffee interaction.

So, um, yes.  New England cleaned up, so we’re the best, everyone can suck it.

patternsandcycles: Woh, I needed a moment to breath after…

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patternsandcycles:

Woh, I needed a moment to breath after CXnats. The trip out to Wisconsin was a really great time…awesome host housing, epic tunes, hours of jokes, pit crew dance parties, grocery store adventures, trail rides through farm lands and quick sand, laundry and bike washes to infinity, champagne/coffee/mud covered van, victories small and large. This season was my favorite yet and this trip was the perfect way to end it.

According to USA Cycling I was predicted to get 34th place at Nats, according to CrossResults.com I was going to get 45th. In the end I was 40th out of about 80 women and although thats fine, it really just leaves me feeling like I can’t wait to do better next year.

At the end of my first season in Elites I am super grateful…I have had so much encouragement and support through out the whole cross season from my family, friends and team. Thank you all so much.

I am posting this just because there’s a picture of me holding Sally’s bike.