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Manarea: January 2015
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Friday, January 23, 2015. Fat and Furious at Gunstock 2015. Weeknight bike racing in the Lakes Region! Polartec is sponsoring a series this year and Gunstock offered up their nordic trails for the first two races of the series as Thursday night events. I was super pumped when I heard about this. Usually you only really see weeknight stuff down south in the more populated areas so it was really nice to have the option to get a good race pace effort in close to home. Can't wait to do it again in two weeks.
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Manarea: April 2015
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. Loosely translated Russian for 'mud season'. This race/ride has had a lot of chatter behind it in the cross community and Eric talked me into it for this year. I'm glad he did, I'm really digging these early season adventure rides. Interesting, challenging, everything I like about mountain biking but on the road! Mountain bikers take note! Our meal ticket was a Livestrong-esque bracelet that said Never Give Up in English AND French. Post race meal was amazing. Production value...
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Manarea: July 2014
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Monday, July 14, 2014. Linking Franklin Falls, Highland XC and Spaulding Woods. I've had this idea in my head for a bit now, maybe a year or so? Highland and Spaulding have come a long way in a short time with their XC trails. They don't have a ton of mileage per se but the quality of what is there now is really good and definitely worth checking out. Good ratio of trail to connector. Places to stop for calories at good intervals not sure what else you would really need? Wednesday, July 2, 2014. As most ...
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Manarea: Carrabassett BC Challenge 2015
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. Carrabassett BC Challenge 2015. BEST 100K COURSE IN THE WORLD. (maybe just New England.my sample size is not substantial). Its probably one of the better 50K courses too for that matter and really becoming one of the best events in New England in my opinion. They have come a long way since the last time I did it in 2013. Its funny to think that before all this awesome happened things were looking grim on the start line. I had one of those "What the hell am I doing here? Moments as ...
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Manarea: August 2014
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Sunday, August 31, 2014. Macho Man beef'd up. Twitter keeps telling me that #cxiscoming. Its also telling me #crossisdead. WHICH ONE IS IRONIC? Although I think my favorite is #crossisdad due to the fact that so many guys who race cross are middle aged fathers. I'll probably be modifying some of my lunch rides to have some cx practice mixed in. Maybe ride Gyro and ride around in fields and run up embankments and the what not. Maybe jump some barriers, who knows I don't know how this stuff works. Seronega...
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Manarea: October 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014. Orchards make great CX venues. As my cyclocross experiment continues I think I have found my favorite course/event so far. Orchard CX at Applecrest Farm has some serious production value. Farm equipment on hand to build interesting course features, a full blown farm stand/market complete with cider donuts and hot cider, a petting zoo, pick your own apples.oh and a cross race. A photo posted by @chainlinecycles on. Oct 10, 2014 at 5:34am PDT. Monday, October 20, 2014. I sort of h...
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Manarea: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. Single Speed Cyclocross Build. I built a bike! I feel like its been awhile since that has happened, and it took place mostly in Manarea v2.5 AKA the refurbished basement shop. I've done hodge-podge work in the basement the last few winters but it was always a hack of a setup and it was primarily just to avoid the really cold days in the shed. I inherited a work bench from the demo project of Tony's garage, hung some bike hooks and BOOM. Cold weather hibernation shop is a go!
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Manarea: July 2015
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. Carrabassett BC Challenge 2015. BEST 100K COURSE IN THE WORLD. (maybe just New England.my sample size is not substantial). Its probably one of the better 50K courses too for that matter and really becoming one of the best events in New England in my opinion. They have come a long way since the last time I did it in 2013. Its funny to think that before all this awesome happened things were looking grim on the start line. I had one of those "What the hell am I doing here? Moments as ...
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Manarea: September 2014
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. White Park and Sucker Brook CX. Brapp #embro #handupsarenotacrime #keepcrossweird #etc. I (double) dipped my toes into the world of CX this weekend! First go at it was White Park in Concord NH on Saturday and Sunday it was Sucker Brook down in Auburn. I think it was just about as perfect an introduction as I could have hoped for. Saturday was cold and dry and Sunday was wet and wild. Aaaaand I'm pretty much hooked. I don't have any crossresults.com points yet (but I do now!
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Manarea: June 2015
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Monday, June 8, 2015. The Pinnacle EFTA NECS #3. This recap won't be nearly as entertaining as Millstone. The weather and the course was basically perfect. My race prep was far from it however. Although it was far from it on purpose. Overall goal for the weekend was maximum fun not necessarily my best race performance and I think I met that goal. Or its shot and I just need a new one. Felt like I finished strong, I passed a few guys later in the race to avoid the DFL and still had some gas in the tank so...
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