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	<title>Adventures on a Bike</title>
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		<title>At the Precipice &#8211; Riding Sonora Pass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The air is chilly at 9,628 feet atop Sonora Pass in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains.  I’d spent the last hour and a half climbing ever so slowly to the pass and now I was considering the unthinkable – descending the other side.
“This has got to be the craziest thing I’ve ever done on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Cyclocross Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyclocross is cool because the race course has such varied terrain – grass, pavement, sometimes mud and usually a little sand.  This was not the case at yesterday’s race. The second race in the SoCalCross Prestige Series was held at a motorcross park way out east in the desert.

This is an example of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/09/28/my-first-cyclocross-race/</link>
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		<title>How I became a Cyclocross Racer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn’t stop staring at the cover of Velonews. The February 2009 edition had just been tossed in front of my while I sat munching a sandwich in my kitchen. The cover depicted a wet, slimy, muddy and yet intensely focused cyclist – I was completely captivated.  What crazy sport was this? Cyclocross &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/09/23/how-i-became-a-cyclocross-racer/</link>
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		<title>Join the fight agains MS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the third year in a row, I’ll be riding the 150-mile MS Bike Tour next month to raise money in the fight against multiple sclerosis, and do you know why? 
I ride for my friend Blake’s dad who has struggled with this debilitating disease for the last 17 years.  It may have taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/09/21/join-the-fight-agains-ms/</link>
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		<title>Three times the screw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-six hours before I was to board my flight to Colorado to race the Leadville 100 I was riding peacefully in my backyard canyon, trying to keep my legs loose. That’s when I felt a terrible “ker-chunck!” from somewhere and felt my bike sag depressingly towards the ground.  Shiny metal fragments flew off my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/09/04/three-times-the-screw/</link>
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		<title>So, what’s next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standing in front of the Leadville Courthouse at 5:54pm on August 15th, it occurred to me that for the first time in a long while, I had nothing to do.  I did need a shower pretty badly, but besides that, my schedule was completely empty.  Wow, what a strange feeling…
I started preparing for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/08/31/so-what%e2%80%99s-next/</link>
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		<title>You’re going to crash!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ride a mountain bike with any regularity, you already know what this is about.  If not, you may be surprised to learn that you are going to crash if you ride a mountain bike, so just expect it.
Sometimes crashing happens in predictable ways.  Like, you know you shouldn’t have bombed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/08/28/you%e2%80%99re-going-to-crash/</link>
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		<title>2009 Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shotgun went off about a half second early.  The blast surprised me as I counted down the last 10 seconds to the start of this year’s Leadville Trail 100 MTB race along with 1,232 other riders. I half-expected to start moving at the sound of the gun, but with about 800 riders in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/08/27/2009-leadville-trail-100-mtb-race/</link>
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		<title>Photo Montage from Leadville</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I used this really cool tool called Screenr to put together a little photo montage of my Leadville 100 race.  There&#8217;s some good shots of Lance and Dave Wiens in there too.

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		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/08/18/photo-montage-from-leadville/</link>
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		<title>Leadville 100 Silver Buckle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last eight months focused on earning this. I did it.
I wonder what&#8217;s next&#8230;
 Sent from my (fabulous) iPhone



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		<link>http://www.adventuresonabike.com/2009/08/16/leadville-100-silver-buckle/</link>
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