Proving there’s no age limit on fun, Nancy took up cyclocross at 66 and plans to compete in the 2009 senior games. She’s an excellent cook, football fiend and a sore loser — at least at cards. If you foil her bid to rule the game, she might throw her cards at you.
Likes
My church, Carl, my best friend of 45 years, family, home decorating, gardening, cooking, football, classic old movies, puzzles, playing pitch, all types of music.

Dislikes
Dirty, messy house.

Favorite Tunes
I have a 400 CD player filled with country western, folk, opera, rock (Christian & secular), gospel, pipe organ, classical, etc. It is set to “shuffle”.  Only one song on a CD plays then it changes!

Admires
My 2 daughters.  They are so ambitious, intelligent, wise, encouraging, gracious and fun to be with!

“Mother, daughter share passion for cyclocross racing”
A nice article about Syd and her mom. Cool.

Team Revolution women don’t sit around idling away the days till the next road season. Instead, I like to think we’re all out rockin’ it in other ways. Some of us are swimming, others running and putting miles on their other bikes, and me, I like to mix it up on the ‘cross courses. This last weekend found me just south of Des Moines, Iowa at the inaugural “Spooky Cross.” Payouts were good and the course great — well, great in a ‘cross sort of way.

The first day it had rained and parts were a little slick, but it was relatively fast between the painful run-ups. The second day — big OUCH. It had rained most of the night and hadn’t let up when my first race, the men’s 3/4, pulled up to the start line. An hour later, the rain had paused, but the slop was plentiful and the course full of suffering for my second race — the women’s Open.

Two days. Four races. Results: 4th (Men’s 3/4), 1st (Women Open), 8th (Men’s 3/4), 1st (Women Open).