Thanks for registering for the 2016 Farmer’s Daughter Gravel Grinder, the second year in what we hope will become a longstanding tradition, and thanks to all of you who took a chance on us last year and not only came back, but brought friends. Welcome old friends and new, we look forward to seeing you …
We hope that you’ll participate in and enjoy the Farmer’s Daughter Ride this year because it’s a great cycling event on its own, but it’s also a good tune-up ride for several races that you may be signed up for this year. It’s always nice to do some of one’s training on a nice course that provides good …
We think that our inaugural event last year was a big success. We hit a couple of glitches, which we scrambled to fix, but participants had a great time, and almost everything went according to plan. We have some changes in place to make it even better on May 15th addressing a couple of issues …
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Farmer’s Daughter now has an official event photographer! Barry Koblenz, a cyclist, long-time CBRC member and cycling photographer is going to be out on the course taking photos throughout event day. I’ve been enjoying his bike race photos myself (check out some of his portfolio online); the Farmer’s Daughter has some beautiful and impressive spots for …
We’ve had a few inquiries about places to stay in the area of the Farmer’s Daughter event, so I thought I’d post some links and suggestions. First, northern Columbia County is a rural area, so there are not a lot of big hotels in the immediate area. For people coming in from the north or …
When a very small group of us first started talking seriously in the depths of the winter about organizing the Farmer’s Daughter Gravel Grinder, I privately set a milestone of 150 registered participants as the mark that we had reached the point where we could feel confident that the event would be a success. We passed …
What a beautiful day for a ride! A small group of us decided to ride parts of the FDGG course yesterday (Sunday, 19 April) on our cyclocross bikes. All in all, we covered about 28 miles of the candidate course. It was, for me at least, a recovery ride after racing yesterday’s Tour of the …
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Finally, almost all the snow is off the trails we’ve been scouting out over the winter. There was a lot of snow in the area covered in the course of the Farmer’s Daughter Gravel Grinder, and it all melted over the past few days now that we’ve gotten several days with highs at least in …
The Farmer’s Daughter event will be a great tune-up ride for some key off-road races in the upstate NY area in early June. If you’re participating in the Wilmington-Whiteface 100K XC MTB race on June 7th, or the Black Fly Challenge on June 13th, you should have this ride on your list. It will be a …
