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)

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).

My new gravel bike Trek Boone 6 got upgraded today with 25% wider tires, and from tubed to tublesss. So that moves me from the stock 32c (mm width) tires to 40c.

Woohoo! After months of research and testing two gravel bikes, I fell in love with the 2022 Trek Boone. Eighteen months (!) to get it in Cali; but Hunter found the exact bike I wanted in a Salt Lake City bike store –> ROAD TRIP!

Wow. OMG. Words. Just had the insanely ambitous and most fun bikeride I’ve had in 15 years! While I’m zero-ing in on what gravel bike to buy, Hunter let me borrow his 3T Exploro Racemax new gravel bike for a ride together on a 3-day weekend. I shot for the moon – “let’s go up Mount Tamalpais (if I even can) and try to get down the other side and ride around back to the start”. About 30 miles. I haven’t been off-road, really in 25 years (with brief…