Member Bio: Matt Donahue
Age: 30
Years Racing: 3
Website: http://mdonahue.blogspot.com
Mountain Bike Category: Sport
Favorite Race: The Shenandoah Mountain 100
Least Favorite Race: 12 Hours of Lodi Farm, it always rains and I ended up in the hospital last year (I’ll like it if both of those things don’t happen)
2005 Highlights: 1st Place overall Men’s Sport Senior I for the Michaux Series; 10:22 finish at SM100 (met my goal of beating last year’s time by at least 1 hour - last year was 11:46)
2006 Goals: Finish the SM 100 in under ten hours, get first place in a single sport race, actually ride in a cyclocross race.
Bikes: Specialized Epic Marathon, Surly Karate Monkey SS, Specialized S-Works Tri-Cross (Cyclocross), Cannondale R1000 Road.
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- Author : Matt Donahue
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[…] Raced the 3rd Cranky Monkey on Sunday at Fountainhead. It’s a great course and the weather was perfect. The expert field was stacked yet again with the local semi-pro and expert fast guys. After putting in 72 miles the day before with Eric, Judd, and Matt, with some spirited attacks and sprints, I was worried I had cooked myself before supper - if you catch my drift. My warm up reinforced this concern - my legs were tired and heavy. Well, I resigned myself to starting on the slower side and hoping for my legs to come around. The start, on a 1 mile road loop and no one wanting to sit out in the wind, would come down to a sprint out of the last corner and for the single track into the woods. I was cut off in the turn - Note: - mtb’ers can be very bad roadies - and lost some positions, but was in the top 10 dropping into the dirt. Long story short, I made up some positions and my legs were feeling ok. Granted it was early in the race, and I planned to save something, but getting a good start is critical. […]
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