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Shawn "bega" Blumenfeld
a quest to win a championship...

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blueberry_soup_is_coming - February 18 2010
blueberry_circuit_race - April 12 2010
im-in-points - November 19 2009
on-lead-lap - November 25 2009
bike_to_work_day - May 24 2010
getting-ready-for-cross - September 14 2009
urban-cross-is-coming - November 14 2009
officiating_the_crits - May 17 2010
indoor-training - January 10 2010
officials-renewal-clinic - February 6 2010
waba_vasa_ride - March 11 2010
44th - December 2 2009
outdoors - January 27 2010
tacchino-ciclocross - November 8 2009
usa-cycling-radio-ban - February 3 2010
no-rain-for-me - March 29 2010
ten-nine-radio - February 8 2010
and-so-now-im-addicted - September 22 2009
kelley-acres-next-up - September 24 2009
hyattesville-cross - October 12 2009
re-urban-cross-is-coming - November 15 2009
photo-from-hyattsville - October 13 2009
another-cross - October 6 2009
off-to-the-races - February 25 2010
towc_part_2 - June 23 2010
re-tacchino-ciclocross - November 9 2009
kelley-acres-cross - October 5 2009
tour_of_washington_county - June 12 2010
south_jersey_training_series - March 22 2010

Over the years, I've dedicated a good deal of my life to helping other people race bikes. Whether from my early years of racing with the likes of Team Aggress, my own messenger racing Team Bega, and more recently the Hub Racing Women's Pro Team, I've received most of my glory from other people's victories. Don't get me wrong, I've played my part and I've recieved proper admiration for my job as a manager, a soigner, a domestique. But it's not the same as winning a race on the bike. And I've won a couple. But I want my own Championship. At the Cycle Messenger World Championships, I've qualified on the front line, placed top 20 twice, been in 6 finals. So now I really want to try to win my own championship in Guatemala at the 2010 CMWC... (im already thinking about 2011 also: the usa national championship timetrial in the mixed tandem masters classes)

re-urban-cross-is-coming

November 15 2009

urban cross charlottesville va. Monticello Velo Club and the bluewheel bike shop put on a great race definately with a city feel.

21st !!! i had a rocking race. with a good start, i was near the front as we turned from the concrete to the mud, but an early chicane up around this little tree caught the whole group and almost all but the 1st 5 out of the hole shot had to put a foot down. i stuck to the middle of the field and found a group of about 4 or 5 to race with. i hammered the several parking lot sections, and this gave me good luck on some of the technical stuff as i was frequently clear of other riders when we turned out of the parking lots and into the mud. very much a messenger style course with curb jumps both up and down. but somehow, i still got lapped (in sight of the finish no less). i cleared the sand pit on every lap, but lost traction on the steep climbs (turning them into run-ups for me). i kept stable and safe on the downhills that almost always dropped into a turn. and i took 21st!!!

the ncvc and rt 1 velo guys (danny k, chris c, elliot) were shouting for me the whole way. and big ups to the altius racers. several of them passed me during the race and everyone of them had something nice to say like "keep going" and "youre doing great". which i did and which i was!

next sunday Rockburn Cross in elkridge md. cross season's almost over.