Race Report: Assault on Mount Currahee – by K-Dogg
According to Wikipedia, Currahee is a Cherokee word for Mount "Stand Alone" and possibly meant someone who is very brave. There was also a vicious civil war battle (The Battle…
Central Georgia Mud Madness or “Honey is it OK to pour straight bleach on lycra?” by K-Dogg
February 18th, Irwinton, Georgia from the Blue Goose Hostel. "K-Dogg! Where the hell have you been riding?" said J.D., my mechanic from Bike Works of Gainesville Florida. "Your brakes are…
Fried Green 50 2015 Race Report: by K-Dogg
Politically correct or not, I love the Uncle Remus stories. As a kid I wanted to be Br'er Rabbit, who constantly eluded or outwitted Br'er Fox. The stories were written…
Pisgah Monster Cross 2015 Race Report – “Tales of Eldorado”: by K-Dogg
Tales of Eldorado If you read any of our recent blogs you know I (K-Dogg) descend like a plucked chicken with vertigo. I admit it freely and so do my…
Observations: Things You Give Up as a Gravel Cyclist by K-Dogg
Our man K-Dogg gives his take on at least twelve things you give up as a Gravel Cyclist. Chains and cassettes that last more than one race. Chains and cassettes…
Hilly Billy Eldorado: K-Dogg’s Race Report
K-Dogg's Race Report from the 2015 Hilly Billy Roubaix - held on June 27. We should have known - this was not going to be your average extreme gravel race.…
Darby Roubaix 2015 Race Report: by K-Dogg
As my old cycling buddy Mark T. from East Mobile Bay used to say, "I'd rather arrive at a race under trained than sick." Sage advice. But it didn't work…
Throw Up Thursday: Rouge Roubaix 2013
You’ve heard of Throwback Thursday. We prefer to call it Throw Up Thursday. Remind yourself of the suffering you endured at a prior race, telling yourself at the time you’ll…
A Divorce from Florida Road Racing: by K-Dogg
This article may be controversial to some, but make perfect sense to others. I have competed in Florida road racing for more than 30 years and until a few years…
Love Valley Roubaix 2015 Race Report: by K-Dogg
"Florida idiots." That's what we are... Florida idiots. Drive eight hours north away from sunny and warm to race three hours in face numbing cold. Walking 50 yards to registration…
Southern Cross 2015 Race Report: K-Dogg’s Perspective
I just love Gravel people. Lining up this year in a steady drizzle at the base of Springer mountain Georgia was more like a family reunion than a race. Everybody…
Training Ride 101 2014 – Pre New Year’s Knockdown Keport
Reporting by K-Dogg. The limitations of having such an International cycling team during the holidays was apparent, as the Tuesday Night GCX Worlds ride barely fielded three Cycle Logic riders. …
Jingle Bells (Bikes) – an Ode by K-Dogg
GravelCyclist.com isn't liable for any grumpy roadies that may be PO'd by K-Dogg's poem :D Jingle Bells Roadies smell Cross bikes rule the night Oh what fun is it to…
K-Dogg’s Pisgah Monster Cross Challenge Report – 2014
I love climbing. You suffer a lot but it’s peaceful. You can hear birds chirping and the deep, labored breathing of fellow sufferers around you. Everything is in slow motion and downright peaceful. You have plenty of time to pick your line. Nobody flats or crashes going uphill. I would much rather be in agony climbing for hours than experience 5 minutes of terror descending skittery gravel switchbacks.
For the last 3 years at extreme cx races I’ve tried hard to man up and go faster down the cliffs….but every time I get the courage to “let it go”… I crash spectacularly. At 59 (and living in Florida) drastic improvement is just not in the cards. So this year’s counter clockwise route of Pisgah Monster Cross should have been perfect with much more uphill, than down.
This year I didn’t crash but there were two close calls…. at the two exact spots they had warned us about. ” Two point three miles before forest service road bla, bla,bla and halfway between Bubba’s Still Road and Cherokee Revenge Holler.” “These washouts are real wheel grabbers so look for the multiple orange markers on your way down” said Cam.
Right.