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When your friends get up before sunrise to ride bikes with you, you take them to north Georgia to see the alpacas. @gracejbranum @dogsandbikesrule

Ready to roll into the long weekend! #Repost @teamcatfight ・・・ #matchymatchy 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️ @gracejbranum @dogsandbikesrule @la_howell @aliwhittier #teamcatfight

Perfect evening for a bike ride with friends. ❤😘🚴‍♀️

Y'all, I've been holding out you...the @skratchlabs matcha chews were love at first bite! The taste is unbelievable and like other Skratch products, they're easy on my sensitive stomach. They'll definitely be along for the ride as I train for my first 100-mile mtn bike race this September. 😬🤞🚵‍♀️ . . . . @smithoptics @pactimo_official @handupgloves @privateercx @teamcatfight

Never a dull moment riding with my fav ladies! @teamcatfight 😂

Trail time with your friends is the best! 😽❤🐾 @gracejbranum @teamcatfight

Thank you, #Pisgah for the beautiful views and exciting trails...and for helping us disconnect from the real world...often my favorite reason to #mountainbike!

Had a great weekend in Pisgah and got my first look at Pilot on today's #SundayFunday ride!

The mind is a powerful thing. I couldn't have been more prepared for this year's #BigFrog65 (thanks to Coach Steve Carpenter/@ecpscoaching). And thank goodness my body was ready to pick up the slack my brain was giving on race day. I was emotional, hard-headed, anxious, and completely unreasonable with myself for most of the first and all of the last singletrack section. I made mistakes I didn't in training, and I let that frustrate me, which is extra-tiring during a race. BUT the good news is that I got over myself and managed to have some really great moments (and PRs). I was grateful for the time I was able to relax (and unclench my deathgrip on the handlebars) and push through the funk. I was blown away and humbled to see so many familiar faces (yay, @teamcatfight!) at the finish line of our "hometown" race put on by two of our amazing friends (kudos on a race well-done, @roostracingllc). So while these results aren't my best work, I'm still happy to have them. I showed up had another opportunity to remind myself of things that are ACTUALLY in my control (and that's always a great lesson for this life-long control freak). 📸 @dashingimages . . . Cheers and thanks to these great companies for being so supportive! @skratchlabs @pactimo_official @handupgloves @smithoptics @cycle_sport_chattanooga

Finish line desperation 😊😝🤪🤓 #BigFrog65

Enjoyed a nice morning on the trails before the rain. Grateful for @spencerwhittier encouraging me to session a couple spots I've always struggled with. Just in time for next weekend's race!

Maybe if you do something you're not very good at for awhile, eventually you'll get better at it, right? Sure, not always, but yesterday was that kind of day for me. I did my first cycling road race 5 years ago, and yesterday was the 3rd time I actually finished with the leaders pack in a race with a sizable group (and a climb that got me dropped the year before). It made me proud to actually be able to "do my job" to help get @ditchflower on the podium. I've been dropped so many times in road races. I've even had to beg a promoter to include me in results because I was so DFL they didn't know I finished. :) It makes me happy to do things I'm not necessarily equipped to "succeed at" because I get greater satisfaction from learning how far I can climb on a mountain than seeing how long I can stand on top of a hill. 📸 Tony Fallin Big thanks to the tremendous village that helps (or has helped) keep me going in the right direction in cycling along the way: @spencerwhittier and my awesome, supportive friends/family/coworkers, @ecpscoaching Coach Carpenter and @fastmamas Team Coach Lewis, @thek2, and nutrition coach, Barry Murray. And of course these great companies: @skratchlabs @pactimo_official @handupgloves @stoke_signal @smithoptics @cycle_sport_chattanooga

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