#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.

Cross Nationals Update

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Did you know that NECX is REALLY GOOD?

Because we are.  The Wilichoski CRUSHED the 35-39 race.  Dylan McNicholas CRUSHED the 30-34 race. Adam Myerson got third in the 40-44 race. Sally Annis DECMIATED the 35-39 race. Jesse Keough got 4th in the U23 race.

ALSO: Andrea Smith won the 30-34 race, with Crystal Anthony in second. Austin Vincent won the 15-16 race, Peter Goguen got second. Paul Curley won the 55-59 race.

So, yeah, good work everyone.

I’ve spent my time here hanging out and working in the pit – first for Sally on Friday, and then this morning for Curtis and later for Colin in the 30-34 race (he got 17th).  Tomorrow I’m pitting for Ben Coleman in the Collegiate D1 race, the MIT dudes in the D2 race, Sally in the Elite Women’s race and Colin in the Elite Men’s race.

The pit is going to be a NIGHTMARE in the races with big fields – it’s quite short, there’s only two pressure washers.  Stu Thorne is going to punch someone.

Other than pitting, I’ve been watching, yelling, updating the Internet via Twitter, and taking some videos with my iPhone.  Which are below.

Richard Fries had stopped announcing at the end of Colin’s race…then we told Richard that Colin was about to finish, and he turned the mic back on and got back to work.

Hell yeah, NECX.