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- Not So Worried This Time
- Where's My Focus? OH, There It Is!
- Dirt Fest: I Love Riding With My Husband
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- Check Out My Interview!
- Treating My Body Like a Temple: Pros and Cons to Going Gluten Free
- Treating My Body Like a Temple: Going Gluten Free
- Treating My Body Like a Temple: It's Time for Changes in the Way I Eat
- Trail Maintenance at Our Local Race Course
- French Creek: An Experiment
- Ice Baths Hasten Muscle Recovery
- My First Endurance Race: The Clock is Relentless
- Changes to the Training Plan
- Greenbrier Challenge: Race Report
- April
- All the Hard Work Paid Off!
- Leading up to Greenbrier: My First "A" Race!
- Couldn't Race, But I Got to Ride With George...
- The Blogs I Read
- Leading Up to the Big Race
- Missing George
- Mountain Bikers: The Least Important Trail Users
- Marysville Relay Race - It Felt So Good to Pass People Again!
- The One Foot Tall Log Conquered!
- Time to Grow Up and Face the Logs
- Choosing the Trainer on a Sunny Day
- This Weekend Killed my Legs
- March
- My VO2 Workout
- Intense Training While Missing my Husband
- How Biking Made me Feel Good About my Body
- My Husband: The Fair Weather Rider
- Random Thoughts of Biking
- Trail Maintenance: French Drains and Danishes
- Patapsco XC Race 2012
- I'm Sick… Right Before a Race!
- Why Can't I Change This Flat?
- How to Change a Flat: A Video Instructional Guide
- When Your Significant Other is Not Into Biking
- Intensity: I Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
- A Fear of Logs
- Blind on a Bike: Park V - The Solution
- Blind on a Bike: Part IV - Corneal Edema? Huh?
- Blind on a Bike: Part III - The Eye Doctor Rides
- Blind on a Bike: Part II - Specialist #1
- Blind on a Bike: Part I
- February
- Racing on Social Rides
- A Break Through Ride
- Rolling With the Punches
- Girl's Weekend at Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park
- Mid Atlantic Super Series is USAC Now
- Random Thoughts
- Saturday Sufferfest
- Many Rides and Trail Destroyers
- A Racer is Born
- Perceived Value: Riding With My Coach
- George's Lactate Threshold Test
- Lactate Test With Dr Ross
- Longest Week: Completed!
- January
- Will I Be Any Good This Season?
- How Do You Get the Stink Out of Bike Clothes?
- Fun in the Woods, Drudgery on the Trainer
- Trainer, Trainer, and More Trainer...
- Dreams of Grandeur
- I Took a Pull!
- Three Days of Training
- Freezing on my Road Bike
- Reprimanded Again!
- From Yoga to Killing it on the Trail
- A New Mind Set
- The Time Trial and the Let Down
- How Did the Bikinator Spend This Warm Day?
- The Monroe Bike Path: A Crash!
- Is It Enough?
- Correlation Between Hotness, Weight, and Biking
- 2011
- December 2011
- The Last Week of the Year
- The New Blog Title Unveiled
- A Stress Free Christmas
- Christmas Morning Dilemma
- Christmas Gifts: How to Please Any Cyclist
- Faster on the Monroe Bike Path
- Solo Night Rides: A Thing of the Past?
- Biking on my Mind
- Another Week Under My Belt
- A Little Girl in the Big Bad World
- A Cold Night at the Monroe Bike Path
- Coach Mike is Going to Push Me
- Acceptance of Risk
- Trail Maintenance: Finishing up the New Trail at Ceres
- The Week in Review and What's Coming Soon
- I Hate This Outfit!
- Why I Keep my Heart Rate Low
- Why Was it so Hard Today?
- Trainer Workout: A Photographic Essay
- The Third Week of Training
- November 2011
- It's Decision Time
- Choices for my Website
- Is the Website Racist?
- What I'm Thankful For
- Improvement in Only One Week!
- How to Make Riding on the Trainer More Fun
- My First Full Week of Training
- Training in Zone 2
- The Monroe Bike Path
- The Training Plan
- Snotters?
- Trail Building at Ceres Park
- My First Cross Race
- Learning About Myself at Ceres Park
- Good For Me, Bad For George
- Getting Ready for Cross
- Man, I Rode Badly
- I'm About to Become Even More of a Bikinator
- Hanging With the Men
- Debut of the Website!
- October 2011
- Loyalty to Your Local Bike Shop
- Reasons I Had Little Motivation to Ride Today
- Mother Nature, What did I do to You?
- Musings About Camden County College
- I am a Bike Snob
- French Creek, Flat Tires, and Shady Characters
- Preparing for the Spud Ride
- Competing With People Who Don't Know They're Competing
- Biking on my Mind
- The One Time I Enjoy Laundry
- Wind, Wind, and More Wind
- Cyclocross Racing: Um, No Thanks
- Do You Like It Wet?
- Girlish Insecurities
- I Just Can't Stay Away From Training...
- A Long Day at French Creek
- The New Website
- I Don't Like Being in the Back
- Riding as the Days Grow Shorter
- Power I Didn't Think I Had
- Team Action Wheels
- Injured at White Clay
- September 2011
- Night Riding at Ceres
- Ask the Bikinator: Passing During Racing
- First B+ Ride All Season... Guess What Happened...
- Riding Bikes is Always a Learning Experience
- For All the Kids Out There
- Plans for the 2012 Season
- Good Old Sandy NJ
- Bear Creek Race Report: 2011 MASS Finals
- Super D Race at Bear Creek: George Speaks
- George: Super D First Place Winner!
- Off to the MASS Finals
- How to be a Better Rider
- Riding With Action Wheels, Reacquainting With GCC
- Do I Belong in Elite?
- The Rumble in the Jungle: Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda...
- I Hope to Race Again This Weekend
- Letter to the Bikinator: Clipless Pedals?
- The Blog is Growing!
- My Strategy to Improve in Elite
- Holiday Ride With Action Wheels: 9/15/11
- Bloodshed on the Trail
- If Feels Good to Give Back: Trail Maintenance at Ceres Park
- Ride Reports: 8/30/11 and 8/31/11
- August 2011
- High Speed Surprises
- It's Good to be Back on the Bike
- Taking the Bridge
- Hurrican Irene vs the Bikinator
- GCC Race is Cancelled
- Andy Schleck versus Angie S.
- GCC Times Two
- Biking: An Unhealthy Obsession?
- $540 Dollar Wheel: Lost and Then Found
- Is Competitiveness Ugly?
- Back to the Wiss
- A Little of Everything
- The Theme of my Blog
- Rain Has Ruined Another Race
- The Unintentional Sandbagger
- Breaking in the Era
- Confessions of a Stalker
- It's Good to Ride My Bike!
- Accidents: Mountain Biking versus Road Riding
- The Race is Cancelled
- It's Hard to Please a Bike Fiend
- A Letter From My Era
- The Pitfalls of an Overly Analytical Mind
- Every Ride is a Race
- July 2011
- Progress at Ceres Park... Training at GCC... A Busy Biking Day
- A Sunny Saturday
- The Focus of my Life
- Riding With Your Significant Other
- I Have No Illusions
- Loving It!
- So Tonight, I Race...
- The Joys of Night Riding
- Just My Luck!
- A Bad Day on the Bike
- New Hope Ride With Friends
- The Anatomy of a Crash
- My Biking Accidents
- The Rabbit
- Fair Hill Classic 2011: Race Report
- I Can't Wait to Race Tomorrow!
- I am a Champion
- I thought the Bike Would Speak to Me
- It's All George's Fault
- How Many Bikes Should I Own?
- A Typical Ride for the Bikinator
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Bike Fiend
- December 2011
- About Me
- He Says/She Says/You Say
- Ask the Bikinator
- Product Reviews
- Otus Safe Sounds: Listen to Music Safely on Your Bike
- Prescription Cycling Glasses: Tifosi Roubaix's
- The Magic Shine MJ-808 Bicycle Light
- Vee Rubber Mission Tire (26" x 2.1")
- Pearl Izumi Barrier GTX Winter Mountain Biking Boots
- Aquaphor: Saddle Sores No More!
- Egg Beaters vs Time Atac Pedals
- The Soft Flask vs the Gel Flask
- Photos
- 2012 Gallery
- 2011 Gallery
- Lining up to race my first Elite race, Fair Hill Bike Line, 2011
- Me and George at the Preserve the Farm Land Road Ride
- 10th Place at Neshaminy, 2011
- Getting ready for a road ride
- Road riding
- Mountain Biking at Fair Hill
- New Hope Ride with Friends
- Night Ride at GCC
- Bike Fitting for the new Era
- Road Riding
- Road Riding
- Road Riding
- Ceres Trail Maintenance
- Action Wheels Group Ride
- Number 2 in the Elite Women's U40 Class, 2011
- 2010 Gallery
- Riding at French Creek
- Racing at Fair Hill
- Fair Hill Bike Line Race, 2010
- Fair Hill Bike Line, 2010, 3rd Place in my First Race
- Granogue, 2010
- Racing at Granogue
- Racing at Granogue
- Granogue
- Granogue Race, 5th Place
- Getting Focused
- Racing at Cascade
- First Place at Cascade, my first win!
- Team Action Wheels at Iron Hill, 2010
- Racing at Iron Hill
- Climbing the Mega Dip at Iron Hill
- 3rd Place at Iron HIll
- Gene Hamilton's Better Ride Clinic
- 3rd Place at Michaux 2010
- Starting Line at Fair Hill Classic, 2010
- Starting Line at Fair Hill Classic, 2010
- Start of the Fair Hill Classic, 2010
- Fair Hill Classic
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- Water Stop at the Fair Hill Classic
- Me and George at the Fair Hill Classic
- Me and George at GCC
- Racing at GCC
- Finishing at GCC
- 1st Place at GCC, 2010
- Racing at Neshaminy, 2010
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- Number One in the Women's Sport 35+ Class, 2010
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