The Reanimation of Alison
Alison Delgado won the first marathon she ever entered—Cincinnati’s Flying Pig—then was nearly killed in a traffic accident. Miraculously, on May 6 she will return to the starting line of that event, thinking of winning once again.

So what do you do when a frustrated, disorganized pack decides to soft pedal all but the last 1km of the final lap?  If you’re Matt Harbaugh you work your way to the front with 3 miles to go and try to push the pace, only to realize no one was interested, you’re off the front and you have only one guy on your wheel.  Then you keep up the pressure and increase the distance on a pack crawling along at 17 mph on a slightly up hill section we took all the previous laps at 22 mph.  I expected the final lap in this section to be ridiculously hard because the final k was a slight downhill with the wind at your back so I thought it would be a brutal battle for position to be first into the … Read More »

Matt “helmet cam” Hardball has some footy from the wet descent and crash in the Open 3/4 race.

Jason Monk (Mad Monk Racer) mentions in his blog that the guy beside him had his front wheel slide out at about 35mph. Max Lundbeck (BSM and Lundbeck Cycles) told me that he barely avoided a guy that hit his brakes and had his bike slide out.

It was definitely slimeeeee out there. I’m glad that I was able to keep the rubber side down, probably because I was blasted off the back. Unfortunately, Kyle and Seth got taken out in this crash…

Race report coming soon. I’m way too tired now.

OSRS #2 – New Haven Road Race was set in the rolling countryside of Miami Whitewater Forest one of Cincinnati’s great parks.

Lesbi-Anne made her racing comeback after a broken collar bone at the Mainstrasse Race Seriesin August of 2011! Unfortunately for her, while she was healing from the initial break, she fell and broke the collar bone again! Earlier this year the bone still was not healed so she went and had surgery to get a titanium plate help keep her together. Needless to say, Lesbi-Anne is back in full force. She took her fair share of pulls and finished mid-pack. Way to go grrl!

We had a great turn out for the mens 3/4 race; Kyle, Seth, Starr, Hardball, Big Tom and I were all registered. Unlike the 100 field the week before, this was a workable 50+ field. Large … Read More »

I rode up with jamie(pike county), billy(orange crush) and lil t(lil t). luckily pike county’s navigation skills are second to none. he made 3 hours of driving only require 3.5 hours.

We had clear skies up until about 20 miles from the course. As luck would have it, some rain clouds greeted us and began to drop lots o’ water.

we made it to deer creek with a little under 1 hour to get registered, visit the port-a-potty(some of us, multiple times), get kits on, check our horoscope, etc…

CAT 5
Pike County, Billy the Orange and Lil T went out into a heavily sand bagged Cat 5 race stacked 50 deep field. This is Lil T’s first road race, but not his first rodeo cowboy. I predicted he’d podium because he’s riding really strong. He’s racing his new cross bike with … Read More »

I ended up 38th out of 62 riders and I was able to finish the entire race without getting pulled.

The course had crazy frozen ruts that would instantly throw me into the tape at random. I’m pretty sure I broke at least 8 stakes during the race.

Surprisingly, i only went down once as a deep Rut threw me into a cloth barrier under the green monster and the solid stake holding it up grabbed my front wheel threw me to the ground.

To top the frozen ruts off, there was a coating of ice like slime on the rest of the course which caused me to unclip several times to keep upright.

My front wheel must’ve not been attached too well because it was shaking. Or, the ruts knocked it out. I’m not sure. I did have to stop on the ‘green … Read More »

It’s winter, it’s getting colder around the Midwest. Pass 2 hours of your time with a le Tour “Living in Hell” video:

Finally did it this year, 1st place Cat 3 / 35+ CX Radness. Had a last row call up, about 55 deep and worked my way slowly through the pack. Had a great battle with Chad Needham and took him by surprise at the very end. He made me run WAY FASTER than I wanted to. Thanks to my teams; Family, Friends and Team Hungry!

coming to you live this weekend – 2011.12.3/4 Kings CX

UCI3 Cincy3 Cincinnati Cyclocross Festival will bill be here in less than 2 weeks! Get ready, get rad, get stoked! Top pros will be in town raging through our local CX courses in Covington KY, Middletown and Fairfield OH.

This pic of Stybar just makes me want to go out and get rad. So much power!

Hungarians have been out representing at all of the OVCX race series… The racing is intense and the fields are bigger than ever. Although none of us have been on the podium, we’ve had really great results. Chewning’s been top 20 most Elite Races, Jamie and Billy have broken into the top 10 for Cat 4 35+Races. Tall Tom, Medium Tom and Starr have been battling it out against each other for Cat 4 top 20 finishes. James has had two top 5 finishes in Cat … Read More »