#dirty kanza

[ronnydeschepper]

Vijftien jaar geleden: Dan Hughes wint de eerste Unbound Gravel

Unbound Gravel, eerder bekend onder de naam Dirty Kanza, is een evenement dat bestaat uit een gravelrace met verschillende afstanden die jaarlijks wordt gehouden in de late lente in de Flint Hills rond Emporia, Kansas, Verenigde Staten. De organisatoren van het evenement refereren aan de race van 200 mijl als “‘s werelds grootste graveltocht” en wordt gerangschikt als een van de top…

[bikeroar]

HUGE, CRAZY, HARD, DIRTY rides. Do you do 'em?

The Epic Ride Phenomenon → http://roa.rs/2oC2S9g

[thismachinekillscobbles]

[jimdaggerworld]

What Does It Take to Win a 150mile/240km Gravel Race? Power Analysis and Fueling Strategy

What Does It Take to Win a 150mile/240km Gravel Race? Power Analysis and Fueling Strategy

In the US and as a cycling coach at cts, if you want to learn how to get faster or just more about the science of training in general, be sure to subscribe. And if you have a training question or a topic you’d like to see me cover. In a future, article be sure to leave it in the comment section down below. I do my best to get to all the questions in the comments like I said at the beginning of…

[jameslano]

I was recently invited to submit a logo for Ted King’s #DIYGRAVEL virtual cycling project that you’ve seen me participating in lately. I would be humbled & very grateful if you could vote for my submission!

NO SIGNUP VOTE NOW!  https://www.iamtedking.com/blog/diygravel-logo-voting-is-live

[howtodirtykanzain2months-blog]

Day 6-9

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I value the experiences in my life. I break this into two questions, both of which relate to my very brash understanding of my purpose in life. In short, I think life is about discovering your passion, and being propelled by it in a way that is incoherent to everyone else besides you, which makes passion a very fragile feeling. As I understand it, when you are overcome with passion, you are helplessly and emphatically biased towards whatever it is you feel passion for. Passion is the greatest expression of an individual that the individual can present to the world, which is finding an activity or subject so personally compelling that you are relentlessly seeking to further this activity by empowering the community of people that share your passion. I could go into specifics regarding passion, but I will hold myself back to get back to writing about Dirty Kanza. My first question regarding my experiences is concerned with finding a balance between experiences directly related to my passion, cycling in this case, and experiences that don’t have anything to do with my passion. I think it’s fair for me to say that I want to become as great of an ambassador for cycling as I can be, but I struggle with maintaining that spirit and keep myself afloat by distracting myself with bullshit quizzes on Facebook news feeds and other miscellaneous interests that might spontaneously demand my attention. Keeping up this sort of passion is exhausting. I wonder how other greats in their respective crafts keep their fire burning. How often does Beyonce second guess her decision to become a singer? Does Jon Stewart ever believe for a second that the bullshit he deals with as a comedian and writer isn’t worth it? How sharp and focused does the mind of Michael Jordan have to be to be Michael Jordan? I feel like those lapses of focus are like snacking during a diet. You tell yourself it’s just a little snack, and before you know it, you’ve demolished a few boxes of girl scout cookies that were supposed to last all week. How much of my potential do I squander by not fully committing myself to being the best cycling advocate I can be? But when I find myself exhausted from riding to work, working a nine hour shift at the bicycle shop, riding home, and planning out my lunch and workout for the next day, I wonder how much of my potential am I squandering by not taking a break from cycling? To quote Slug from atmosphere: “I’m trying to build a balance”. Keyword: build.

My second question is more about my evaluation of these experiences. Sometimes, it’s not totally obvious whether something is harmful or helpful for me as a person, and I think it’s fair to say that this sort of examination is necessary for us as human beings so that we take responsibility of our actions and decisions in how they inform our beliefs and morals. That being said, somedays I am confused as fuck about whether my time is being spent constructively. For instance: when I go out with friends, I’m usually doing something that I wouldn’t choose if I were to pick. I went to see Beauty and the Beast one night. I went out to an Irish pub in D.C. a different night. I want to maintain some semblance of a social life, yet my mind eventually arrives at the consideration that I’m wasting my time. Even before I try to build a balance, I feel like I’m constantly trying to figure out what I’m balancing. So to actually put a question together, how much energy do I need to spend evaluating these experiences? Should my gut reaction to what I’m considering be good enough to judge its utility? Or is my borderline overthinking not without merit?

While I wouldn’t call my bicycles meticulously built and maintained, I do think a lot about the way my bicycles are pieced together and am constantly researching new ways to improve my bicycle as I see fit. Calling it an obsession would be putting it lightly. Calling me obsessive wouldn’t be an incorrect statement. When I care about something, I tend to overload my mind with as much information as my curiosity demands. 

This unfortunately leads me to be paralyzed and inwardly focused. I’d like to think that I’m capable of brainstorming a lot of ideas, and my creativity helps broaden my perspective, but I lack resolve. Ideas bounce around my head. My thoughts hang inside my skull like clothes I don’t wear. Dirty Kanza is scaring me, if only because it’s challenging what I deem to be a very central part to who I am. More specifically, I’m finding that a lack of resolve isn’t gonna cut it. I don’t want to be the kind of person that just “goes with the flow”, but I think an important part of decision making that I miss out on at times is simply making the decision to do something. I challenged that lack of resolve when I pressed the confirmation button to sign up for Dirty Kanza. Following through with the rest of the process is proving to demand a similar sort of resolve. At this point, I’m trying to balance my desire to be correct with my desire to get things done. 

As far as my training goes, it’s been hard to stay focused. My ECR is lacking for speed in the worst way. I’m anxious to get my All-City Macho Man shipped to me so I can actually start putting in some fast miles. I still haven’t signed up for a gym, simply because I’m wondering if I even need to spend the money to do so. The running I’ve been doing has been painfully cathartic, and my lungs are turning masochistic on me. It’s wonderful. I might simply swap my running routine and lifting routine so I run more and lift less, while doing core exercises every morning like I’ve been doing. Actually, I’m going to do that. No more of this might bullshit. At this point, I’m running out of time to train effectively for Dirty Kanza. These past few days have been a reminder how hard it is going to be for me to focus on training, but I have to keep pushing. It’s the only way I’m going to survive this race.

[velocandy]

Ted King wins Dirty Kanza 2018

[walkandmean]

Trek Adventure Bike

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[youcantbuyland]

Total badasses ~ Dirty Kanza

[snipernyc-blog]

What do you think of gravel racing. Doing dirty Kanza or Vermont 100 races. Can you do a video on the upheaval and it’s popularity as seems.

[tyler-reed-is-superman]

How did I manage to completely miss this??? Holy shit.

I Ride For Her from Salsa Cycles on Vimeo.

[thismachinekillscobbles]

[dragynride]

“I felt pulled to be part of this amazing group of women showing that women can do anything,” said rider Kayci Sterzer.

Want to join OUR amazing group of women on a relaxed bicycle adventure? Apply to join the Dragyn Ride!

[aces5050]

(via Allied Able: The bike that doubled up at Dirty Kanza 200 – VeloNews.com)

[gowiththeflowsmallboy89]

The Groad to Kanza Episode 5: Dirty Kanza!

[gearandgrit]

HED Wheels Announces Emporia Gravel Wheel Line

HED Wheels Announces Emporia Gravel Wheel Line

HED Wheels announced a new gravel specific wheel line and a name change for the range today. The wheels formerly known as Eroica will now be known as ‘Emporia’ wheels, more on why in a minute.

The new wheel introduced today is a carbon gravel specific wheelset called the Emporia GC3 Pro. It features a 30mm deep profile, a nice wide 26mm internal width, and has a claimed weight of just 1395…