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Karla!: Redlands!
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Wednesday, April 09, 2008. Warning, this post is WAY too long. It's cool though, since no one reads this blog anymore, and I know at least my mom will enjoy it. And, you can pace yourself, since chances are good I won't blog again for another year. When Laurel asked if I wanted to do Redlands, my first thought was, "sure why not? Ha ha The official grunted as he heaved my bike up onto the scale. So, uh, is it the heaviest one of the day? I asked them. And they did! So I kept clim...
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Karla!: Criterium Nationals!
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Sunday, August 17, 2008. Meanwhile, I was like, hello? I thought this was a warm-up race? Post-race, we went and got some take-out Indian food and a DVD and watched it in our super-sweet one-block-from-the-course host apartment. After a restless sleep, we hit up the Caribou Coffee first thing in the morning and picked up our numbers, before heading back to the AC of the apartment to set up our trainers. Nice. So I run into the pit, thoughts running through my head:. But where's t...
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Karla!: Track at last
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Sunday, June 17, 2007. I finally got myself down to the Hellyer track today, my first time on any track other than the NSC Velodrome in Blaine. Hmmmmm, let's just say that my favorite track is still Blaine. Hellyer is a 335 meter concrete track with about 25 degrees of banking, according to the website. I have to say, I much prefer the steeper banking (46 degrees? And wood surface at Blaine, even if it does give gnarly splinters. But it was fun to get back on a track again!
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Karla!: tra-la-la...
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Monday, May 28, 2007. Posted by (dis)pencer at 9:08 PM. Madera Stage Race, Continued. Madera Stage Race = HOT. A crit, a road race, and. cyclocross?
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Karla!: More Crits and whatnot
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Monday, June 04, 2007. More Crits and whatnot. Saturday morning started early for me, in order to get to the Dash for Cash Crit in Pleasanton. This is a disturbing trend I've noticed - I'm often getting up earlier on the weekends than I do during the week, just to make it to races. Then Monday comes, and I'm like, "woo-hoo I'm sleepin' in! It was a 3/4 womens race, but it was actually a lot faster than Saturday. People were attacking a bunch, the Dolce Vitas, the Bellas, the ...
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Karla!: Aw, shucks
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Monday, July 16, 2007. Here's what I learned this weekend (actually this morning) - always check the results. I suppose I should have learned that at Superweek last year when I was in a winning break for the entire race, and they still managed to miss my number. Yesterday was the Lafayette Crit. I wasn't even sure I was going to do it, since I was more concerned with getting lotsa good hours on the bike to be ready for my 24 hours of craziness. Site this morning to look at pics&#...
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Karla!: Crappy Crashing
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Monday, September 10, 2007. My blog's been outta commission, but now I'm outta commission. Hopefully not for too long though. Dislocated shoulder at the Benecia Crit, but an awesome guy, Steve, popped it right back in before I even knew it was out. Hurt like hell, but no worse than the road rash on my leg and elbow. The arm is in a sling, but I should back on the bike CXing in a couple weeks! Posted by karla at 3:08 PM. Let me know if you need any replacement kit. Hope you are fe...
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Karla!: Racing some more!
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Unfortunately, my blog has pretty much become a way to keep track of the races I've done if I ever manage to put together a race resume. Oh well, I'm over it. We did start out pretty fast, but then things settled down. It was really just a lot of fun! I'm psyched for this coming weekend - a crit with a 180 on Saturday, and then Sunday I get to do 2 crits. Hooray! Posted by karla at 12:34 AM. I am doing some Dakota crits to learn how to corner like you!
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Karla!: Catching up
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Tuesday, July 03, 2007. Lots and lots of racing! Photo courtesy of Garrett Lau. I should have tried it about a lap earlier, when people were slightly less on edge. As it happened, I ended up leading out the last lap and getting passed before the line by six or so ladies, ending up 4th in the cat 3s. Ali from Form Fitness won the field sprint for the cat 3 win - she rocked it! Posted by karla at 7:12 PM. The suspense is killing me! Lookin' to give it to you the next time.
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Karla!: Matters of some importance
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A subsidiary of sd4life. Sunday, July 08, 2007. Matters of some importance. First - I'm finally a cat 2. I gave myself some time to think about it, and waited until I felt ready. And now I've gone and done it. Second - I'm going to be visiting the Twin Cities in less than two weeks, and showing up to race at the track in Blaine on July 19 (I hope it doesn't rain.) If you're on the fence about going that night, DO it. It will be great to see all the tracksters again. I'm already getting psyched for 'cross.
