When does a ride become epic?

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by Nathan on January 29, 2010

Some rides are ill-fated from the start. These are the ones where you left one shoe cover at home, or found a bulge in your tire from a torn casing, or your water bottles leak Perpetuem all over your frame as you drive to the shop. Sometimes you feel like hanging it up before you even turn a pedal. Other rides start out great and then surprise you with circumstances that challenge your willingness to suffer.

Tagged as: cold rain, epic rides, harpeth bicycles racing team, team building, training

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Todd’s NGAR 2010 “Toughest Race in Georgia” Race Report

January 26, 2010
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Harpeth Racing’s own Todd Essig braved the cold and rain to race the 2010 edition of the North Georgia Adventure Race. Running for 30 continuous hours, race participants paddled, ran, and pedaled mountain bikes through the Chattahoochee National Forest in North Georgia. Todd submitted this race report after successfully completing the event on January 16-17th, 2010.

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Response to the last post

December 14, 2009
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I’d like to talk a bit about how we watch for each other at team rides. At one point Brad and John got separated by the group on Greenbrier headed toward N Lick Creek. Fortunately it was due to some miscommunication, and not a mechanical or anything like that. So, I’m asking everyone on the team to avoid passively going along for the ride, and maintaining awareness and practicing communication so that we either arrive together or if we arrive separately, it is planned that way.

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Kit Pickup Day and Team Ride

December 12, 2009
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The team kits came in late last week from Louis Garneau, so we arranged for pick up on Saturday followed by a long endurance ride. Our group was 17 strong. It was mostly guys from the team, but we also had some strength from Team Belladium, the newly formed women’s cycling team.

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Lock 4 Six Hour Race Report

November 30, 2009
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Jonathan, Gabrielle, and I had a great time racing the Lock 4 Six Hour Challenge two weekends ago. Our cumulative time and lap count was good enough for second out of fourth place in the 3-person “Just Having Fun” category. Racing two laps each (Close to 19 miles) didn’t seem like much when compared to the 8 laps that some of the solo racers were able to turn, but it was enough that I felt it the next day.

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