Greg K.

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Cute strapless number... |What is RadioShack thinking?

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 9, 2009, 9:01 pm
I don't get it. Do you? What the deuce is slung on Lance's back? In the annals of cycle-dom, there have been some doozie uniforms...and many worse than RadioShack's cute little number, bu...
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Mark Woolcott's local athlete profiles | Episode 6

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 8, 2009, 10:19 pm
I am HONORED! I made it into Mark Woolcott's on-going series of athlete profiles in the Denver metro area! As you all know I am pretty geeked up on photography and to have Mark, whose work I ogle ...
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Colorado States Photos | The amazing lens of Joshua Duplechian.

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 7, 2009, 5:14 pm
For a year or more now I have been enamored with the PDX crowd and their ability to capture cyclocross in a way that is not just focused on the racer. It’s everything AROUND the race…name...
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Cross Racing Week 12 | 2009 Colorado States and CycloX

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 6, 2009, 5:30 pm
I can barely type at this moment. Absolutely no feeling in my fingertips due to the insanity of participating in my 'last' race of the season today, CycloX, in sub arctic conditions. My body i...
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The Colorado State Cyclocross Championships | What a day!

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 6, 2009, 9:00 am
My full report coming but, man!, what a day of racing. Two of my dearest friends earning incredible victories. My 9th earned in (literally) blood and bruised bone. It was awesome... This is what the ...
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The Katie Compton Interview | Recorded by Brian Patrick

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 5, 2009, 3:53 pm
I'm amazed by elite athletes. So many have a perception that they are standoffish premedonna types. Not Katie. Not by a long stretch. Interviewing Katie is ore like hanging out with her and as you...
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Happy Hour with Katie Compton! | Plus a Q & A with Mud and Cowbells

Greg K. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 2:30 pm
Brandon has put something special together this coming Friday, Dec. 4th from 5pm to 7pm at Boulder Cycle Sport! Come on in and bring your kids for a Q & A and autograph session with current U.S. Cyclo...
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Cross Racing Week 11 | Don't overlook the obvious

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 30, 2009, 9:59 pm
“"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it.”   -Ferris Bueller We all work so hard and manage our own versions of the three...
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Assembling The Ridley X-Night Seat Mast | What I learned from Ridley

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 5:18 pm
The Ridley's have treated me unbelievably this seson.  A way better arrow than the Indian shooting it. The X-Night is a pretty sophisticated bike and is one of the new-generation frames featu...
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Worldsport.TV Interviews Niels Albert | "Cross is like riding to the bakery."

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 2:35 pm
Everything you wanted to know about Prince...ahem...Albert.
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An Inside Look at Vermarc Cycling Apparel

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 2:19 pm
This is a pretty cool video to see how cycling clothing is produced. Vermarc is a great sponsor of ours and I have a deeper appreciation for the kits when I take them out of the bag! Check it.. Verm...
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Cross Racing Week 10 | Exiting the mosh pit

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 11:26 am
Whoa. You ever get to that point in a season where you are like: “Jesus, Mary and Joseph, get me done already!!” And when the season finishes you suddenly start longing for ‘do-overs...
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Hamme Zogge Live this AM | VT4 SuperPrestige coverage

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 7:05 am
VT4 covers the SP's live via streaming so even us U.S. mopes can enjoy. The Hamme Zogge Superprestige starts at 7AM MST (3PM in Za Motherland). Click here to watch and FaceBook message all your fa...
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Eet es bettah too loog good dan to feel good | Colorado Springs sufferfest

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 9:57 pm
Full report coming after I get out of this weekend but today's race in Colorado Springs was painful. Waking up heady didn't help either. 8th...again. It's getting comical. Anyways, UltraR...
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"I will sell this house today!" | Coaxing the mind to stay on course.

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 10:33 pm
40. It’s just around the bend. That’s a lot of years. And yet I still have no idea what I will become. I think I am supposed to feel something different, but I am still wired to push. Am I...
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Cross Racing Week 9 | To the consistent comes the spoils.

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 10:37 pm
What kind of crosser are you? Seriously. Think about it for a moment. Are you the type who thrives on the early season warmth? Tackling fast courses and using some of your road or mountain season form...
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Fixies are stupid

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 11:08 pm
OK, I almost can't take it any more...having seen this video over the weekend in all it's HD glory after the Snob posted it. Perhaps 'cross is going mainstream, but honestly I'd rather...
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Keeping the BCS team clothed | New 2010 soft goods!

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 10:21 am
For the 2009 racing season, the Boulder Cycle Sport crew has been decked out from a set of GREAT sponsors who supply us with bleeding edge equipment. I thought it would be cool for fellow racers and t...
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Get some cyclocross skills! | Advanced course with "Yo" Parbo!

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 4:59 pm
Honestly, I do not think that I’ve ever seen Joachim (emphasize the "Yo!" in Joachim) without his red and white Danish National Champion’s kit. The guy is an institution of cyclocross batt...
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Blue balls. Cross style | A guest post by Michael Robson

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 8:50 pm
So for the first time, I'm going to pass the mic to a good bud, fellow daddy, husband and cross racer Michael Robson. Did I mention he's from Oz which by default makes him hilarious? Michael i...
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Cross Racing Week 8 | 8 Ball

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 10:32 pm
8th. Can’t seem to break the curse of the 8 ball. By most standards, top 10 is an achievement in itself…and the crew we have here in Colorado is about as fast as it gets. And yet even whi...
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Five Questions with Brian Vernor | From Pure, Sweet Hell to The Cyclocross Meeting and beyond

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 8, 2009, 10:23 pm
I don't know where to begin. Insane jealousy maybe at his ability to capture what we all see and feel in still and moving celluloid as cyclocrossers. Or maybe it's his ability to keep focused ...
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Finding my place | A mid season check in...

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 7, 2009, 8:43 am
I hear myself tell my legs on any given weekend "I hope you perform". But as we know, hope is not a strategy. It's a layer somewhere beneath luck, fitness, passion and ultimately skill that can he...
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Bloggin' from my iPhone

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
  Be prepared for lots of misspells and other anomolies as I am now armed and ready to blog from anywhere with SquareSpace's new iPhone app.
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Middle Cross Is On! | Junior Cyclocross on veterans

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 1:45 pm
Promoting cycling recreation and fitness for youth FALL BIKE FEST RIDE + FOOD + PRIZES + FUN Wed, Nov 11th 11 am – 2 pm Manhattan Middle School 290 Manhattan Dr., Boulder, CO
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A cyclocross race decomposed | Brian Patrick's video of the Blue Sky Halloween Cup

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:48 pm
Brian has outdone himself. What a fantastic keepsake for our tribe of 35 Open racers out here in Colorado. He filmed this and spliced together all the sound to punctuate the action with the racer'...
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More Boulder Cup Weekend Photos | Shawn Lortie's Lens

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 9:04 am
Shawn is a local hard man and has shaken up the 35 Opens after a pretty long hiatus from the scene. The man's got that prototypical Colorado mitochondria that mystifies. Moreover, the man is an in...
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BicycleRadio.com Tonight! | Mud and Cowbells takes the mic...

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 11:06 am
This could be dangerious for Sean and Brook of Bicycle Radio.com to let me have air time. I promised them I will not digress into potty humor or booger jokes. OK, maybe one or two. Ha! But serioulsy, ...
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Cross Racing Week 7 | Trench warefare

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 10:35 pm
Week in and week out we slay each other....like the gentlemen we are. It's very close and always tight like warfare in trenches in the First World War. And yet we love it. Purely, sadistically an...
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Boulder Cup | Photos from my own lens

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 10:27 pm
After my race I was able to mess around before going to work for Dubba and Webber in the pits. I snapped the faces of my friends and some of the ladies in the Elite Women's race....where Katie pro...
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Blue Sky Halloween Cros Mud Fest | From the lens of Rob O'Dea

Greg K. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 7:52 am
I am trying to fabricate something eloquent to say here about the photos Rob ttook yesterday of teh elite men's and womens race...but I all can say is: holy crap. Mr. Rob O'Dea has done it aga...
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The sweetnes |Xilinx mud fest

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 5:44 pm
Full up report coming after tomorrow's race but ho-lee-poop it was....AWESOME! My team ROCKS!! The pit crew was so PRO it as nuts...clean bikes every 1/2 lap! Here's a pic from The WK as a tea...
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Crossin' Colorado's Dale Riley Captures the Video Goodness!

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 7:58 pm
Dale from Crossin Colorado once agian has kicked some butt...simply by being out in the freezing cold at the wee hors of the AM and capturing video! Thanks Dale! Scene's from our race this Sunday ...
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Cross Racing Week 6 | 'Cross has come to CO

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 10:33 pm
For me cyclocross is a string of memories dating back to 2nd half of the 90s, living in the Bay Area with each winter bringing a worse El Niño than the last. Cross was an ALL day event, most of...
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Cross Week is HERE! | Participate in a week of events before the Xilinx and Boulder Cup UCI races

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 2:24 pm
BOULDER CYCLE SPORT'S DEDICATION TO CYCLOCROSS CONTINUES...
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unPRO | This is not WWII, Niels.

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 6:03 pm
Back in double-ya double-ya two, there must have been this certain style that penetrated the ranks of the soldiers fighting in the forests of the Ardennes, the skies above the English Channel, the sea...
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When the stars align...

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 9:41 pm
There are times in life when everything comes together. Everything is perfect. Set up just right. Some analogies come to mind like "setting the ball up on the 'T'". Or perhaps for baseball fan...
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Cross Racing Week 5 | All the little pieces

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 11:52 pm
It was a 72 hour interval of sorts…squeezing a boat load of work into a Thursday AM, boarding a plane that afternoon for Vegas, doing my thang with my company then getting back on the plane Fri...
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Valmont Bike Park Groundbreaking Cross | Daily Camera Video

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 9:06 pm
I'll have a race report coming up shortly but this is from Boulder's local paper, the Daily Camera. Have a look see. Some of my favorite people interviewed including Brooke Watts of Cross Part...
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I feel like a blogger now | BlogWorld Las Vegas

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 8:13 pm
I did it. I spoke to ‘my people’: bloggers and all those passionate about social media and getting the(ir) word out. BlogWorld, in Las Vegas….back again after my CrossVegas fest jus...
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Welcoming a new church member

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 9:42 pm
I'm heading to BlogWorld in a few days where I get to wax poetic on some cool trends we're seeing about bloggers and their readers who visit their sites. But secretly I'm trying to bust my...
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Interlocken Photos | Mark Woolcott Photography

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 9:25 am
‘Mr. Strobes’ Mark Woolcott braved the early AM cold and snow to shoot the Interlocken race, including a focus on the Juniors in the wee hours of the AM to give them some due air cover for...
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Cross Racing Week 4 | Stay loose, kid.

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 10:55 pm
“Stay loose. Just stay loose, kid.” It was his patent phrase. He’d use it with me on the field, when I would take a test and was stressed beyond my small brain’s capacities, or when I’d call...
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Interlocken 'Cross | A cockpit view

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 3:16 pm
All around good-guy and hard man Rod Yoder captured our 35 Master's race Sunday on a cold and frozen day on 'the grass' at Interlocken...BoulderRacing's 2nd race in its 4 part series. ...
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Jesse Anthony goes social

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 6:02 pm
Check out my home boy Jesse’s new site. Pretty pro, Jesse! You can keep up with all his travels and travails on the blog, or his twitter feed of course like all the kids are doing these days in the ...
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Greg K. is the author of Mud and Cowbells
Greg K. is the author of Mud and Cowbells

Valmont Bike Park | How it gets built!

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 10:39 pm
You ever wonder how a bike park gets built? Well, in the case of Valmont Bike Park, this is a MAJOR undertaking as nearly 45 acres of land will be meticulously groomed and shaped by earth movers to li...
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Cross Racing Week 3 | Doy!!!

Greg K. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 10:24 pm
Cyclocross…is…hard. I’ve raced it all, even a little track, and cyclocross is simply the hardest (in my overly biased opinion) to put all the pieces together and do something &lsqu...
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