The 10th annual Tour de Gaslight took place this past Sunday August 22, 2010. It was a beautiful day and the crowd turnout was excellent! This was no ordinary criterium race day as East Grand Rapids was host to the Michigan Criterium State Championships! I decided, why not? There always seems to [...]
The Founders team was well represented at the 6/12 hours of Pando, with 7 racers competing. The weather called for high temps and high humidity but luckily the clouds delivered some welcomed relief from the heat for most of the day.
Team “IPA at Midnight” consisted of Jeremy, Brad, Nicola and Matt. They [...]
I left Grand Rapids for Pennsylania Thursday night and stopped in mid-Ohio at Motel6 for the evening. Saturday I completed my drive to Coburn and Millheim. Coburn is where the race started and is about 2-1/2 miles south of Millheim, where I’d rented a hotel room.
The Millheim Inn was a classic “rooms upstairs, pub&restaurant downstairs” [...]
Experts rode four laps of eleven miles and the course reportedly had 1800 feet of climbing per lap. Brent Walk, promoter of FunPromotions, put together an interesting course. All of the course was on trails we’ve ridden before, but Brent linked and looped sections together to create an inventive and interesting course that in some [...]
I don’t know what I was thinking, volunteering to help promote the State Games of Michigan Mountain Bike Race and also signing up to race just 7 days after putting on one of my largest and most draining bike races, the Lumberjack 100. No backing out now I kept thinking, just delegate various jobs to [...]
For the past two years, I’ve been on the sidelines of the annual Lumberjack 100 – volunteering where I was needed, cheering on friends and strangers, and supporting my husband as he completed his first-ever century in over 20 years of competitive cycling. I was inspired by what I saw as an ‘outsider’ and wondered [...]
The Cannonsburg 8 hour challenge was a hot one! I could only rock 3 hours of the 8 hour race because my niece had her high school graduation open house that I couldn’t miss. Jeff Jacobi and I were the only ones flying the Founders colors that day. I know a lot of our team had [...]
Mohican 100- yes I keep calling it MUDhican- which is exactly what it was…….
Teammate Martin had sent me a great glowing description of the Mohican trails. I didn’t see THOSE trails, but I saw glimpses of what could be potential of those trails.
I got to Loudonville Ohio Friday evening and got my race packet. I’d [...]
This weekend I attended the Bloomer Park XC race on the east side of our lovely state. The park lies in the heart of Rochester Hills and is a great place to ride a bike. The park holds our only velodrome in the state and has some of the most technical trails I have ridden.
The [...]
The Western Chapter of the MMBA held a membership drive this past weekend where members raced for free. The chapter ran the race with volunteer help (including Founders/Alger racers, Rick Plite, Martin Hall, Dennis Murphy) and attracted 13 new members. The time trial race criss crossed 13 miles of Barry County dirt roads and two tracks [...]
