Tag archive for ‘you got this’

  • “You Got This”: Women of the Verge Series, Part VI

    Cindy, rocking a black dress for her first cyclocross race.

    Cindy Brennan is a librarian by day, as well as a part-time student and she’s wrapping up her second season of cyclocross. 

She races for Bikes Not Bombs, which promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war and environmental destruction. For 25 years, BNB has been a nexus of bike recycling and community empowerment [...]

  • “You Got This” – Winner of the Verge Amateur Women Series Has It

    Verge Series Overall Podium (L to R) Emma White, Ellen Noble, Lori Cooke. Photo: Natalia Boltukhova | Pedal Power Photography | 2011

    by Ellen Noble Richard Fries calls me the hipster girl. Maybe it’s because of my awesome pink socks, my sweet Trek Portsmouth skinsuit or my thick-rimmed glasses, who knows. But it’s strange to think that before my hipster identity was created, I was just a normal mountain bike racer. A 3-hour-long-million-calories-burned-mountain-bike-racer. And in a true [...]

  • “You Got This:” Amateur Women of the Verge Series, Part VI

    Stark taking a corner intently at Northampton. Courtesy of Robert Swider

    Joy Stark is in her third year of racing cyclocross and rides for HUP United. Joy transitioned to bike racing after spending too many solitary mornings before dawn rowing single scull on the Charles River. As part of her race prep, Joy often bakes Hupcakes for her teammates for NECX friends, which she has found [...]

  • “You Got This:” Amateur Women of the Verge Series, Part V

    Tessa Clare, pre-race. Devin Riley

    Tessa is in her second year of cyclocross and rides for Threshold Cycling. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts and works as a guidance counselor in Lexington. When she isn’t racing ’cross she is mountain biking with her fiance and dog, snowboarding, playing basketball, or dancing to 80s music. The only thing she enjoys more than [...]

  • “You Got This”: Amateur Women of the Verge Series, Part IV

    Cait Dooley. Power Animal: Unicorn. Marty Walsh

    Cait is in her second year of racing cyclocross and rides for Geekhouse Bikes. When she’s not racing, she’s a horse-training, figure-skating, gymnast-ing, computer-nerd-ing, bike-mechanic-ing mermaid. If you see her at a cyclocross race, be sure to ask her about power animals. [Editor's Note: it will be the best conversation of your night. Guaranteed.] She [...]

  • “You Got This:” Amateur Women of the Verge Series, Part III

    Donehew on the Gloucester runup. Todd Prekaski (20poundskull.com)

    Kristina Donehew is in her first year of racing cyclocross and races for Hup United. In her earlier years, she played some college and professional tennis. After four surgeries she discovered cycling and has ridden road, mountain and track with limited racing experience. She is just getting back on the bike after a five year [...]

  • “You Got This”: Amateur Women’s Nor’Easter Edition

    Lodrina Cherne races for Geekhouse in the Verge Series. © Tiffany Remy (http://www.remyphotographic.com)

    Preparation for my trip to Burlington, Vermont and Nor’Easter ‘Cross came with a lot of expectations. After a weekend where I went flying off my bike like Joey hitting a barrier, I was ready to make the three hour plus drive to Burlington worthwhile. I wanted to get a Verge point which would earn me callups at series races for the rest of the year.



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