Varying degrees of DK

Every year since the first ride report, I’ve debated about whether I needed to do another race report on my Dirty Kanza. Fortunately, every year is different, and every year it still catches me off-guard.

DK200: Official Testimony

There is the truth, and then there are the facts. Sometimes they are very same things. Here is my 2017 Dirty Kanza 200 Ride Report, ala Mr. Comey-style.

DK200: Ice Sock Fever

The storm before the calm
A crack, a flash, the room strobes with light and something outside thumps. I sit up on the foldout bed and see the shadow of…

DK200: Lay your dirty burden down

This is for you.

And so the mud caked you and raked you, it stuck and it clung. It formed five-pound pie plates under each foot, and you squelched and…

Hematoma Takes a Holiday

We don’t have time for this! No time. Tick tock.

I’m not starved for attention, nor do I yearn for affection or the ear of a long-suffering confidant. But…