Brand new bike! After trying Hunter’s Trek SuperCaliber 9.8 XT ultra-light XC (“cross country”) racer bike for a week – I was hooked. Once I saw this color scheme, and the 20% off sale for this 2022 bike – I secretely ordered it. It’s an absolutely amazing bike. It wants you to push hard, to tear into a climb or bounce down a descent.

Lost & Found 100 mile gravel race - I won my age group, women’s 50 years (and up)!

2023 Grinduro! at Mt. Shasta - 61 miles race where they interestingly only time four segments (~20% of the race) of various representative skill/terrain combinations. I had rough rear derailleur issues after lunch and wasn’t sure was gonna finish!

Utterly fantastic gravelbike climb up Mt. Tam, to Muir Beach, during rare snowy week in Bay Area. Thirsty Thursday group of five of us – part of East Bay Gravel Bikers. The snow was in the cooler areas up Mt. Tam (didn’t get on video, but picture stills).

Hunter and I bike the crazy 80 mile Rock Cobbler race in Bakersfield, CA, with 4 of our friends. Slippery mud, impossible climbs requiring hike-a-bike, cows, and over 8,000 feet of climbing insanity with 1,000 riders. This is the longest and hardest dirty ride of my life!

Hunter and I gravel bike up Mt. Tamalpais “Old Railroad Grade”, and head down the challenging “Rock Springs” fire road, circling 3 lakes! (Bon Tempe, Lagunitas & Phoenix)

Life this year has been particularly great. Here’s basically what I’ve been up to on a daily basis. 😎

I overcome my trepidation of biking across a 12 foot huge rock drainage barrier between me and my morning coffee. I get to clown on camera. Give it a watch – it’s only 40 seconds! 🤗

Well, we upgraded my gravel bike “Candy” to be a MUCH better climbing bike (really we turned it from a “cyclocross” bike to a super-light gravel bike). After upgrading the tires, we upgraded the rear cassette (and derailleur) and front chainring.

One Gravel Race; Two nights camping; 62 miles. OMG I just biked my longest off-road ever – by a long shot! (This is also my first bike race ever).