{"id":409,"date":"2022-08-23T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2022-08-23T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:36:37","slug":"meet-lyllie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/meet-lyllie\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Lyllie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a guest post by the overall junior women’s winner 2021, Lyllie Sonnemann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hi! My name is Lyllie Sonnemann, and I really like bikes<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My favorite thing about bikes is the places they take you and the people you meet through them.\u00a0Although I\u2019ve been riding since before I can remember, I didn\u2019t start racing bikes\u00a0until I discovered cyclocross races when I was 10 (I’m now 14). When the pandemic started, I got my first mountain bike,\u00a0and now I race both MTB and CX.\u00a0 I was privileged last year to have the opportunity to ride and race\u00a0bikes all over the country, and it was amazing. I got to see so many different landscapes (like the Colorado Rocky Mountains), eat lots of delicious foods on my rides (the tacos in Tucson, Arizona are the best!), and learned lots of lessons (try not to fall off your bike onto a cactus, ouch!). I\u00a0raced in 6\u00a0different states, competed in 30+ races, and the Iceman was one of my favorites.\u00a0 Although\u00a0I did my first Snow-Cone at age 7\u00a0(and several Slush Cups after that),\u00a0I didn\u2019t realize it was a real race until my second Slush Cup. After finishing and learning that it wasn\u2019t just an organized ride in the woods, I remember asking, “I was supposed to go fast?!” I didn’t care about whether I was at the front or the back, I was interested in having fun, and I sure did. I’ve started to love the competitive aspect of bike racing, but my top goal in each race is to have fun. I have a blast each November flying down the descents, making my way through the sand, and pushing myself to the top of climbs. The atmosphere and community also make this race one of the best,\u00a0and I\u2019m already\u00a0counting down the days until this November!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you would like to share your Iceman story, please email your story and photos to Fanphotos@iceman.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post by the overall junior women’s winner 2021, Lyllie Sonnemann Hi! My name is Lyllie Sonnemann, and I really like bikes. My favorite thing about bikes is the places they take you and the people you meet through them.\u00a0Although I\u2019ve been riding since before I can remember, I didn\u2019t start racing … Continue reading “Meet Lyllie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,165,174,72,141,153],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-iceman","tag-iceman-cometh-challenge","tag-juniors","tag-kalkaska","tag-traverse-city","tag-womens"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iceman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}