tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17981514940072796112024-03-18T21:44:43.148-05:00Anna Schappertlil' scrapper.AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-9016561766638264162014-12-05T13:47:00.001-06:002014-12-05T13:47:32.870-06:00#WpgCX2014<div style="text-align: center;">
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Another cross season has come and gone, and boy oh boy was this one to remember. Starting off with this year's highlight, Canadian Cyclocross National Championships, in you'll never guess...WINNIPEG. It was so awesome it took us all a month to process.</div>
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After months of preparation the year's ultimate race was happening in my very own city, and we did not disappoint. I participated in 4 races over the entire weekend, at least one everyday, cheered so loudly I lost my voice, enjoyed some lovely Dead Ringers over looking a DOUBLE SAND PIT....I'll repeat a DOUBLE SAND PIT, annnnnnnd organized the after party of the decade. Just kidding about that last part, next year's will be even more killer.</div>
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As a racer I had the top result of my career, placing 5th in an Elite Women's field, specifically the very stacked Canadian women's field (*cough cough* 2x World Champion *cough cough*), made sweeter by the fact that all my family and friends had come out to watch me race. Only the sweetest deal in the world, and the perfect cherry on top of an ice cream season. This great season comes as a direct result of many fine folks who have helped me over the past year namely: Paul of Pure Fitness, Jayson Gillesspie for helping me drop all you fine folk in the dust, Phil Roadley, owner of Bikes and Beyond for supporting my racing aspirations overall these year, and my parents for putting up with to many bikes in our basement, among countless other things. </div>
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Not only was there racing, there was shenanigans.<br />Annz Bananz<br /><br />I hope you know I'm just grinning over here.</div>
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Finally on the grand Saturday snow day, Christine and I went for probably my hundredth and her first snow ride of the year. Great times ensued.<br />
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Now that I'm really on holidays I've decided to honor the Olympics in the most Russian way possible, by watching with Vodka. Its a very understanding tv partner and puts up with my criticism of all of the commentators, even the american ones.</div>
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Saturday marked my first outdoor road ride since August. Holy crap its been a while. Even longer since I've ridden a proper road bike (probably like 2012 at this point). Parker, a friend back from the days of the Cafe in Canmore, was able to hook me up with this super primo road bike (very low and aggressive) which was a dream to ride, and awoke an entirely different bike lust monster, one which wants now a road racing bike decked with 11 spd dura ace (but lets be honest who doesn't want that, for serious). From this super rad downtown shop in Vic (Broad St cycles) we went on a rolly route (for my unpracticed Prairie winter legs to do), eventually dubbed the "peninsula tour," going from Victoria north up to Sidney and back. On the way out was more that perfect, however after a short toast/coffee encounter we were slightly less than pummelled with rain and had to shorten our route less our fingers and toes fall off. To top off the day we hung out for at the bike shop for a while and talked bikes, that Lance documentary, and honey buns. Thankfully/unthankfully I left my phone at home so no photos for you.</div>
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Monday marked the end of Katie's reading break so I decided to try and work on an essay which is due in a week at U Vic while she was being all Law Studenty. Hardly any work got done. YAY. In the evening I headed out with fellow Manitobian and cyclist, Hayley, to Mt Douglas for a night hike. We crushed it so much we forgot to take pictures again. Let me just say it was beautiful to see the city at night, especially on a clear night.</div>
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The race: North Shore Mountain Bike Series<br />
Format: xc marathon, enduro, and super d (i competed in all)<br />
Where: north vancouver, more specifically Seymour. Almost in my backyard.<br />
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Xc marathon- 5th<br />
<b>One day enduro - 1st</b><br />
Two day enduro - 2nd<br />
Super d - 4th<br />
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It may have helped if i pre rode the super d course before hand. Though i was going up against some pretty fast chicks. The girls around here can really RIDE!<br />
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While all this was going on so was North Vancouvers Bike fest was happening so there were lots of tents and local buisness situated in Inter river park for a good time.<br />
On sunday after the super d i got to spend the day chilling with my cousin Sarah whos new to riding, tearing up the bmx track and beer gardens. <br />
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Succsesful weekend Id say.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
Anna Banana<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367789256355432521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-63973973829719266302013-04-11T16:57:00.000-05:002013-04-11T16:57:28.396-05:00Theres Still Hope for You Yet Winnipeg<div style="text-align: left;">
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First day of (almost) summer vacation (I'd say summer vacation but lets be honest maybe we should study for some exams before we get ahead of ourselves). </div>
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After a great paris-roubaix finish by MY BOYFRIEND (Fabz) some of us crazy enough to go out for a ride did, 2013 Milan San Remo style. Hopefully today's ride will account for my yearly epic "lets get hypothermia" ride, but considering Winnipeg's predicted weather I could probably guarantee this will happen again.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367789256355432521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-42363685416669487072013-04-05T20:21:00.001-05:002013-04-05T20:21:08.217-05:00AnticipationJust me. My bike. And the trail.<br />
Snow go away.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367789256355432521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-65383159371073769642013-02-10T09:23:00.000-06:002013-02-10T09:26:49.321-06:00Winter time in Winnipeg<br />
Any one who says Winnipeg sucks just can go stick their head in some snow. Even though it may be -40 during the deepest darkest shortest day, we make up for it by racing in a barn when its to cold do anything. And when the weather does look up we waste no time in taking advantage. <br />
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<br />AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-40458028541247462972013-02-02T16:32:00.000-06:002013-02-02T16:32:18.300-06:00Wait what?Yes. Currently in lou-ville (pronounced exactly like that) recovering/still partying post world championships. Feeling right now? Inspired. All i want to do is ride my bike and prep for cross racing next fall. Its amazing to see/meet many of my idols such as, Georgia Gould, Gabby Day, Vos is Boss, KATIE FN COMPTON (who we unfortunately did not get to meet), Helen Wyman, and many other of the worlds crew.<br />
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What I love about cross racing is that it gives me the chance to cheer on all my friends, and heckle the other ones.n On this fine day Luc decided to show up, so I finally had the chance to yell "Sandbager" all day. Good on ya sandbaging the open race Lukey. The A race was exciting with the some of our only beer handups were by the taken by the two leaders. Hell ya! Following the A race was the social which as alwasy promised included lots of beer, chips, and good times.<br />
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or maybe the demon rooster?AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-18168042668729892602012-10-11T11:11:00.001-05:002012-10-11T11:12:34.694-05:00All things fall.Beer. Cross. NIGHT RIDING. hoodies. bon fires.<br />
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I love fall.<br />
I can't believe there are only 3 cross racez left.<br />
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After my terrible math exam last night I dragged Ari out to Birds Hill for the first time since I've come back from the Best Coast, and for my first night ride of the year (with lights I should say....one interesting trip down Sagar). With my new fancy ass light, we could see no problem, enough to take DARING new lines....hahah. Which is quite contrary to our previous night rides, where we're guided by the stars and the moon.<br />
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Hope everyones enjoying the lovely fall weather and beautiful colors.AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-19999899311312221282012-09-17T14:59:00.001-05:002012-09-17T15:00:32.171-05:00Dark Cross!!After such a long wait....the race I'd been waiting for was here. Time for racing at night on a speedway. Lots of work went in to putting this event on so Thanks to everyone at FGBC, RRR, sponsors and friends That helped out! I'd say it was a success.<br />
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So I headed out to the speedway early on Saturday to help set up for the big day. Set up some tikis, supervised some beer drinking, and just enjoyed the day in general. This year the course was a little bit different, with much more straightaways, a really sick flyover, and some other stuff.<br />
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<li>Blinded by Camera Flash each Grandstand Run, hoping that my feet would land on each step.</li>
<li>My fans are ROWDY.</li>
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Friday : Specalized Safire<br />
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Friday was nothing special, just a rip on the Shore with Christine and Grant, except for the part where we "biked" Bitches Brew. Since it was Grant's birthday we headed over to the Black Bear for some post race grub. What happened after was awesome though..Grant's car is this wicked old mercedes, and we locked all of the bikes into the car. Total bummer cause I was racing an enduro in Squamish the next morning. Luckily Tahn Tahns was gracious enough to lend me her Trek Remedy, which in turn was a better bike than the Safire.<br />
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So early Saturday morning I raced up to Squamish with a bike I had never ridden before. This weekends race was different than any other that I've done thus far this season. The event was: Hot on Your Heels Classic. A women's only enduro (and for you non mountain folk an enduro is a downhill race with several different timed stages), my first "downhill" oriented race. There were so many women on gnarly bikes standing around in the parking lot it was just so RAD. All of the volunteers were men (mandatory lack of clothing as well). Along the route there were a couple of "aid" stations.<br />
The first one was pretty legit with watermelon and bananas. The second was gummie bears and palm bay. The trails : Angry Midget, Fools Gold, Hoods in the Woods, all really great (but lets be serious everything in Squamish in so amazing) Unfourtunatly I couldn't attented the post race party, but I'm sure that was quite rowdy. An amazing event put on by SORCA. I ended up 5th (for the 2 downhill timed sections) after crashing a couple of times...so me.<br />
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Monday, Mario, Cam, Christine, and I all headed up to Whistler to shred the park. This would be my first time ever on a downhill bike (after three years of living in the mountains it is a superme fail that it took so long). So i rented. Going into renting I thought for sure it would be some shitty shit shit. But no I showed up to the park early (no way was I not riding on this day) to my surprise they have one of the pimpest bikes i could dream of: Trek Session 9.9 carbon. Topped of with 2013 saint. <br />
Now how does one of these bikes end up in a rental fleet? I don't know. Don't question it.<br />
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Whistler Bike park: SO. MUCH. FUCKING. FUN. if you can go. GOOOOOO GOD DAMMIT. At first it was hard. There's so many jumps and before Monday I had been afraid to get any air, but on a bike with 8 inches of travel its not so scary. We rode so many trails and hit so much gnar. And it was so simple..the bike made everything easy. Nearing the end of the day my forearms were getting so sensitive that even the slightest bump (from the tiniest rock or stupid brake bumps) would give me so much pain. I had to end the day. Fortunately for me it just started to thunder, closing the lifts, and effectively ending the day. <br />
On my way back home I made a small pit stop to hang out with Fraser and Grant. I expirenced my first shuttle run (ish..i was the driver) Just driving the truck on the sketchiest road was fun enough since I could no longer bike on this day.<br />
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Tuesday I made full 360 degree circle back to my baby bike. After just being touched up by Rob Mulder again (such a great guy..<a href="http://www.robertscomposites.com/" target="_blank">Roberts Composites</a>) I got the bebe on the <strike>road</strike> trails again. I rode with Tahnee for the first time, we just did a couple lap of Frommage bobsled. It felt so good to be on my bike, especially the bebe bike. Almost anyone who sees me ride it on the shore is completely astonished. What really made this ride though was a thunderstorm. It was bright and loud, and raining just enough and since we were in the forest I wasn't too worried about getting struck. The experience felt so surreal.<br />
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Nimby50 - 110 Switchbacks up. 4th place down. Most delicious/nutritious race food. Coming back next year.<br />
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Westside Classic - deceptively steep. lots of chasing.<br />
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Axell Mercxx Pentiction Gran Fondo - super hot. fast. (160 km sub 5 hours!) Womens team win! cherries! More fondos are in my future<br />
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This past weekend was the first official Trek Red Truck Mtb crew race, the Orecrusher. Continuing with the trend of all of the racing I've done out here (and will do), it was extremely gruelling. Strangely enough this race wasn't littered with vertical which is what made it harder (ha as if I just said that). Ann rocked the podium with a third place, and Quinn with a first in Junior, and fourth over all (such a power house).<br />
Middle of the week I headed up to Mt. Fromme for another Shore ride, this one being better than the last, and now my favorite place to ride on the Shore. Theres an old logging road right in the middle which makes it much easier to access all of the trails. The trails are much steeper as well, so I enjoyed it a lot more. I can hardly justify through words how amazing the shore trails are. You'll just have to come and enjoy it yourself.<br />
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spent, with just about 8 hours of mountain biking. Saturday Jim drove us up to
Pemberton for the Nimby50 pre-ride.
It was a long day with lots of climbing (101 switch backs at least) but
also some gnarly descents. On the
way home we stopped at the famous Splitz Burger, for some very well deserved
Burgers. Jim and I were up bright
and early again on Sunday, this time to catch the ferry out to Gibsons for the
Sunshine Coaster pre-ride. We were
surprised to find Nick and Quinn in the parking lot since we thought they rode
the coaster yesterday, but it was good for Jim since he got a bit of a higher
paced ride than the day before (where the girls out numbered the boys 4 to 1,
when does that ever happen on a mtn bike ride?). To finish off the weekend, Ann hosted a team bbq where we
played some very intense Jenga games.<br />
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<br /></div>AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-16307707633014689692012-04-25T17:11:00.001-05:002012-04-25T20:44:59.910-05:00Goodbye Winnipeg, Heeellllllo Vancouver!As soon as I got back from California it was back to real life with exam week......wooooo (just soooo much excitement). Exam week was short but painful and I got through with little time to spare to get ready for my adventure to Vancouver. Highlights of the week include killer rock band night, filming a helmet saftey commercial, Bur Oak Time trial, awesome birthday bon fire, 12 hours to pack up my life, drinks at the Paw with ma gurls, and 2 intense days of driving to Van-city.<br />
Specifically I'm super stoked on the Bur Oak Time trial where I posted a sub 20 minute time, a goal and a new personal best of mine. <a href="http://www.olympiacyclingclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WNS-1-2012-v2.pdf" target="_blank">Woooo</a>!!!<br />
My dad helped me drive out to Vancouver and we were determined to make it out here in 2 days. We got delayed on the way to Canmore with high speed head winds, and just 10 km out of Golden we were delayed 4 hours by a disgusting truck accident (included pig carcasses, and there was blood everywhere), however we made it here safe and sound. <br />
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<br />AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-80117383306404283172012-04-11T14:26:00.000-05:002012-04-11T14:28:36.254-05:00Trek Red Truck Training Camp 2012Trek Red Truck holds an annual training camp down in Santa Rosa California for both the elite team and the masters riders. Let me just say it was EPIC. I have never spent so much time on a bike, and done so many kilometers in one week, with just that much elevation. We averaged 100 km a day, and every morning pre ride Matt would say " 100 km, 3 hrs".<br />
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I had come into the camp with literally no knowledge of what we were doing (besides riding bikes), where we were staying, or how we would eat. Needless to say I wasn't disappointed. We stayed in the gorgeous house up on the hill in Santa Rosa, rode "100 km, 3 hrs" in the mornings, and hung out by the pool post ride (unfortunately wasn't warm enough to swim in). And the cherry on top of the cake was Marcia who cooked the most amazing food for 20 of us all week.<br />
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Santa Rosa is 2 hours north of the San Fransico airport, and located mostly in wine country. We were able to make it out to the coast a couple of times, and rolled through the rolling Sonoma Valley all of the other times. Each ride we did was different from the last, and were all so gorgeous.<br />
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The first day we hit the coast, and there were some huge ass waves. It was so cool and I couldn't stop smiling (I've never been on the west coast before)<br />
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So Mark James (owner of Red Truck beer) organizes a ride each year called the duck ride. Where the masters team rides south, climbs up 12 km, desencdes on this sketcy/AWESOME descent, and then stops in St. Helena for a duck. After having some delicious duck and lots of wine, theres an even steeper (albeit shorter 8 km) climb back over the mountains back home. Though it sounds extremly painful (which I'm sure it was), everyone has a great time, and lets be serious it makes for a strange training camp tale. <br />
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Kings Ridge Ride (2, 15 km climbs and Colemans pass (10 km), which is part of this years Tour of California)<br />
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Pine Flats ride was the last day.<br />
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All week there was a lot of ping ponging going on in preparation for Janky Cup 2012. i suck so I was out the first round. The final round was contested by Dustin and Tyle, and Dustin the king came out on top.. not so much of a surprise.<br />
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The chef's secret stash of wine.<br />
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Bailey McKnight put together a great video of his time at the camp. <br />
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BananaAnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-10452985016946067072012-04-03T23:28:00.000-05:002012-04-03T23:28:33.952-05:00March Maddness!Soo its been a crazy awesome month! and they just keep coming...<br />
March started off with me coming home from 2 much needed weeks abroad, and to a very delightful gift of a new bicycle! YAY<br />
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<br />AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-79048810748580408012012-02-26T17:39:00.005-06:002012-02-27T10:49:16.736-06:00VacationoniSince last week wasn't reading week, I decided that it would be super fun to go out to Canmore and surprise one of my friends for no apparent reason, and maybe do some boarding/xc skiing.<br />
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So I left directly from South Carolina at 3 am. Not that I slept that much that night anyways, and didn't get to Canmore till 12 am (mountain time). I got home just after noon and then spent a couple of hours back at home re packing for my vacation out in the west. It was back to the airport at 5 for my thrid plane ride of the day to Calgs. I had coordinated with my friend Amanda Ammar (who just hours earlier won the KESKI in Gatineau, a 53 km skate ski race......YA DUDE SO STOKED), to fly in this evening because she also get back from her eastern ski tour.<br />
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Anyways, its been a super fun week chilling at the Ammar-Butler-Sometimes Groneveld household, baking, family guy marathoning, home working, and cross country skiing.<br />
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Amanda and I went skiing 3 times this week and she pretty much totally pwned me each time. However as the week went by I was feeling more recovered, and started to actually be able to keep up.<br />
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I unfourtunatly didn't get a chance to go snowboarding this week, for a lack of automobile syndrome, so DJ bootz and I had alot of bonding time :)<br />
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Skiing at the nordic center the first day :)<br />
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Deystroying walls at Mallory's new house!<br />
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Gluten and Dairy Free Red Velvet Cupcakes!<br />
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Adventures in Costco avec les cornichons.<br />
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BABOSHKA KITTEH!<br />
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How hipster of you.<br />
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Big Red Puffy Marshmallows.AnnaBananahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08619941746315060440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798151494007279611.post-55269907583032452332012-02-25T19:05:00.000-06:002012-02-25T19:05:19.684-06:00South Carolina 2012Again this year I had the pleasure of attending the Canadian Women's Endurance Camp down in Seneca, South Carolina. I had such a great time last year, that I thought that I'd try and go again this year.<br />
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My trip had a little bit of a rocky start with a layover in Chicago. It appears that the one time I'm going to experience a snow storm this summer, would be in the middle of my flights. The flight into Chicago was good until we actually got into Chicago where it was full on blizzard mode. Needless to say my flight to Greenville was cancelled and I had to spend the night in the hotel, all by my lonesome.<br />
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Early next morning I trucked it over to the airport early early, to make sure I'd make my flight on time. The airport was completely packed with all the other people whose flights were cancelled the day before. It would have been completely fine except for United had kept my baggage overnight, so I was overly worried that it wasn't going to make it to Greenville with me. Especially since I had been changed to two different airlines before boarding any plane that morning. The most stressful part of flying with american airlines is that i always feel like my luggage is going to get lost. However after all that I made it to Greenville unscathed and so did my luggage.<br />
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Since I had spent the night in Chicago I missed the first day of riding (which i heard was super windy anyways), so I started the second somewhat fresh.<br />
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Day 2: Team Time Trial work. A pretty gorgeous day, and DK put most of the mountain bikers together on a team so we really rocked the boat.<br />
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Day 3: Whitewater Falls. This is a 10 mile climb with a little bit of down on the way up, and at the very tip top is the steepest part. My bike unfortunately doesn't have a compact and my climbing, so it was a rough go, but i made it and it rocked. One of my favorite reasons for doing a climb is so I can descend with my super skillz. This a pretty fun descend too with lots of tight corners. DK put us into three different self selecting groups to descend so we would have less of a chance of crashing. We descended without crashes (yay!). This day we ended up doing 100 km which was awesome.<br />
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Day 4: Rest Day! It rained today, so it was a perfect day to take it off. We rode a cute 1 hour loop in a forest which was a nice change from all of the other roads we were riding on.<br />
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Day 5: INDIVIDUAL TT! The previous night we had a sport come and speak to us about race prep and mental skills so we had a chance to put them to use on this day with the ITT. We rode out to the same place, though by a different less hilly route. Warmed up, and then TT'd! I felt I had a pretty good TT, I was focused the whole time and I "rolled out the carpet" as some might say. I ended up doing it 14 seconds faster than last year, which is at least an improvement. We also ended up doing a recovery ride in the evening which was awesome and we just blasted Ri-ri from the Iphone the whole time!<br />
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Day 6: Endurance Ride. Today was by far the hardest out of the whole week. It was yet another rainy day, however the rain stopped a half hour into our ride. I just had a total suffer fest at the back today and just kept running low on energy. To make matter worse we semi got lost, and instead of the 2 hour ride we were supposed to do, it got extended to three hours. Anyways we got home and somehow I snuck into the shower first, leading to hot water :D.<br />
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Gab also made cupcake for next eve's potluck and she was nice enough to buy all the decorating supplies for us to do it with so we had spent the evening in the best way.<br />
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Day 7: Sasafrass. This was our longest day of the week, and my favorite. To start off we had some of the most gorgeous weather all week, which made this ride much more bearable (last year it was rainy and just plain miserable and I had to duck out early). The main highlight of the ride is a climb called Sasafrass. It super steep and takes about 40 min to complete. Steep enough that we had to weave back and forth to make it up (that is if you don't have a comapct). Anyways its awesome and I love hardass shit like that so I totally rocked it and and this year we made it all the way to the top.
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The rest of the day was super chill and rexlaxed, becuase once we had finished the climb everyone's stress just fell off their shoulders. By the end we were all getting super tired, and Kinley and I started singing and getting rambuckous(quoting rage comics). Once I got off the bike my legs were just jello, and luckly I had a massage that evening. Karlee, Caeli, and I all spent some time in the beautiful lake that just happened to be in the backyard of the lake house we were staying in.<br />
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Day 8: Final Day/ Sprints. Today was the final day so we took it pretty chill and went out to do a sprint workout near the abadonded diner. It ended up being another gorgeous day (sunny and warm enough for shorts and jersey) and did about 6 sprints. By the end of our sprint workout I knew my legs were done for the week and just went easy till the end.<br />
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I'm sad for the camp to be over, because I met a lot of great girls again this time around, and also saw some friends I don't get to see often, but it's regrettably time to go back to Canada, and move onto the next adventure of Canmore for Reading week. The race season starts in just over 2 months, and as each day approaches I just get that more excited. I'll be moving out to Vancouver just as April ends to start the season with a new team, Trek Red Truck, with their première year of mountain biking.<br />
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