By Zach Adams Am I happy with my fall cross season? Shades of gray seem to fade in the rear view mirror. I’ll end it with a yes, but the shades of gray remain like a 16 year-olds homegrown tint job. In some cosmic sense, we must be content with what we have accomplished, as [...]
By Zach Adams Leaves rustle off in the distance. It is faint at first, but with time the sound grows definition. Maybe its a deer. Maybe not. There’s too much noise now. Maybe its a bunch of deer. Either way, the saftey goes off with smooth deliberate motion. It took me 100 yards to see [...]
Abbreviated Version: Rockville Bridge Cross Festival KICK ASS CROSS RACING ALL FRIGGIN WEEKEND OCTOBER 22-24,2010 Register HERE: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Uncut Version You may be asking yourself what you are doing the weekend after Granogue. You may have not even thought about it yet. And chances are you haven’t registered for any races yet. If you haven’t [...]
Sacrifice and glory come hand in hand: that’s what we learned by watching our heroes. Ignore the pain and the pay-off will reign supreme. As young cyclists with untouchable aspirations- we lay in bed and think of our heroes, the greatest giants of time, and envision our own conquest to glory. We have dreams about [...]
Around the corner, tires slipping on harshly trodden grass repeatedly smothered into the ground, the need to accelerate becomes overwhelmingly apparent as that wheel in front of you, so meticulously focused upon, begins to fade away from your periphery. An aluminum frame flexes ever so slightly under powerful legs, snapping back with each up-stroke. That [...]
I thought that I’d be writing a different article today. I thought for sure it would be the one I wanted to write. I don’t want to write this one. I really don’t, but I feel like it’s necessary. You see, for every success, there are 1000 failures. That’s part of being an athlete and [...]
It’s a hard balance to strike when youtry to build a down to earth, fun event with a grassroots feel but still desire a glimmer of a professional show. It’s a balance to not disassociate from the fact that we are still racers ourselves. I really try to keep that in mind for my own [...]
One of the best parts of my lifestyle right now is that I get to see a lot of truly amazing places that I’ve never been to before: constantly seeing new things. I love it. In the past few weeks I’ve been a couple new places and done a few new things that I think [...]
Chance meetings are so much easier: a collision of fate, a common trend, an unplanned meeting- some uncontrolled conjunction of two entities. There is no meet cute in our relationship; we can’t wait for that spark to ignite our dialogue. That puts the pressure on me for today: I have to be the one to [...]
