Race Reports

Justin and I just finished up a trip to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to race the 20th anniversary event for this mountain bike stage race.  This is the last year of the 7-day format, and they are changing to a shorter 5-day event next year.  The extensive network of trails on the central portion of […]

    I awoke feeling under the weather, but I wagered I could probably still race well enough and should go for it. So I drove out to CBR and raced the 2/3. Out of the gate, many riders wanted to start a breakaway, but nobody was quite strong enough to drive it and everyone

Chris, Justin, and Heather all traveled to this 75-mile gravel event in Carson City, NV, with Justin trying to defend his winning title from the past two years in the pro event.  The race is put on by current gravel pro Peter Stetina and contains many of his favorite training routes.  The race has a

Justin and I traveled to the famed mountain bike trails of Moab, Utah, to compete in this three-day stage race.  Moab is famous for slick rock trails where the route is over long sections of sandstone where the only way to mark the trail is to paint arrows on the rock.  We arrived in Moab

Justin and Chris just finished up a trip to the US Pro Cup mountain bike event in Temecula, CA, with solid results in the elite and master’s categories.  Check out the report and great photos! Justin writes: I decided to skip the elite short track on Friday as I was still recovering from a cold

At the end of a long season of bike racing, I set off for one last adventure in Fayetteville, AR, for cyclocross nationals.  I had never been to Arkansas before and had heard great things about the investment in cycling that this community has taken on over the last few years.  The race was in

I had some family obligations on the East Coast this fall, and I decided to have my plans include the Pan American Cyclocross Championships in Washington, D.C.  The promoters have put on an annual race for more than a decade on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home just a few miles north of

Hi Team, This year was my first trip to collegiate national mountain bike championships to watch Justin race, and I wanted to send an update to the club even though he is required to race in his UC Berkeley kit and not LGBRC p/b Ben Dodge Realtor kit. Justin, the reigning national champion in the

    Hi Team, This weekend I traveled to Wisconsin for the 4th round of the Life Time Grand Prix at the Chequamegon MTB Festival. This mass participation event takes place on the nordic ski trails of the Birkie classic, which are 50ft wide grass covered rollers in the summer. The race is a 40-mile

Justin and I made the long drive to Breckenridge, Colorado, to compete in this event on challenging high-altitude single-track.  With typical stage lengths of three to four hours with six thousand feet of elevation gain, it was tough to recover each day so that we could race at full speed later in the week. I

Justin and I wrapped up our racing in Virginia at USA Cycling’s mountain bike national championships yesterday with a win for me in the men’s 55-59 XC race and top finishes for Justin in the under-23 short track and XC.  Justin had epic rainy conditions in his XC race, which made the roots and mud

Dear Teammates, here’s the update! Lexi and I packed up 4 kids and all the gear and drove down to Watsonville a couple weekends ago to toe the line at the annual Watsonville Crit. If you’ve never been, it’s a fun, tricky course with 6 turns, one of which is sweeping and one of which

Justin and I are in the heat and humidity of Roanoke, VA this week for three different mountain bike national championship events.  The first of these was yesterday with the marathon event (~3-4 hrs) and later in the week are the short track (~20 minutes) and cross country (~90 minutes) events. On Monday Justin set

  This event on Vancouver Island in British Columbia has been on my radar for a few years with its focus on racing on technical single track for seven straight days!  The first stage started off with a relatively short 17-mile ride, but only 5 miles of this was timed, consisting of a twisty single-track

Justin, Heather, and I all raced in one of California’s largest gravel events this past weekend in Portola.  Heather took 2nd in the age 51-60 women’s 64 mile race, and I struggled with leg cramps to finish 7th in the 51-60 men’s 97 mile race.  But the star of the show was Justin who battled

Hi Team, This weekend I flew out to Kansas for the Unbound 100 gravel race, the second round of the U23 Lifetime Grand Prix. Since this was only the second week of my internship at SRAM, I decided to fly out from SLO on Friday morning at 5am so I could still work most of

Attendees: Ben Dodge Lexi Dodge Randy Domolky Serenity Marshall and friend Joseph Dan Phillips and friend Kori Dan Scannell and wife Christina Mark Thompson Rachel Vasquez Friday, May 9th at approximately noon we headed south of Healdsburg along Westside Road. The pavement was smooth, and we were greeted by verdant rolling hills lined with vineyards.

Justin and I returned for the second year to this event in Carson City, NV that has a somewhat unique format of three timed gravel segments that are added together to determine the overall standings.  This makes the rest of ride pretty enjoyable in that you don’t have to suffer and can ride with family/friends

  Racers: Eric Brown, Luis Gomez and Salvatore Talarico After a roughly 4 hour crawl on Friday to our accommodations in Auburn we arrived at the race venue early on Saturday morning to pin numbers and get warmed up to set off with the first wave of racers at roughly 8am. It had been blazing

Race Report: Grasshopper Ukiah Mendo Gravel Epic, Justin Justin won this past weekend’s Grasshopper race for pro men and you can read about it on cyclingnews.com with a podium shot below! Race Report: Whiskey 50 Off-Road, Prescott, AZ, Chris This event is in it’s 20th year and had been on my radar for a number

Race Report: Slug Circuit – Cat 3/4/5 35+ Date: April 5, 2025 Field Size: 10 LGBRC Racers (finishing position): Salvatore Talarico (5th) Brian Paden (6th) Vu Nguyen (10th) Reporter: Brian Paden Course: 11 laps on a scenic but hilly 3-mile loop through the UC Santa Cruz campus. Excellent pavement, non-technical layout—you might not even touch your brakes the