Samantha Dery
Hometown
Danvers, MA
Date of Birth
5 July 1973
Category
2
Profession
Product Marketing/Product Management
Years Racing/Year Started
1998
Hobbies
job hunting(!)
in her own words
How did you spend this off-season/winter?
Looking for a new job and riding the rollers.
What are your goals for 2008?
Upgrade to category 2 – accomplished!
What are your Favorite Movies/Bands/Books?
The Police
Eat, Pray, Love; The Extra Mile; Ultra Marathon Man; Let My People Go Surfing
What is your Favorite Race? Why?
The Fitchburg Longsjo Classic & Green Mountain Stage Race – best local stage races.
When did you start racing, how and why?
Paula Bedard introduced me to NEBC many years ago.
Who were/are your cycling mentors and/or influences?
Wendy DeHart and Robin Gilmore-Barnes
What was your first bike? When/how did you get it?
A Schwinn Prelude courtesy of my grandmother.
What was your first win/best placing?
GC @ GMSR 2007
What would you consider your finest moment on the bike?
Riding down the Natchez Trace with the Sultan of the Socratic Method.
What was your worst or most embarrassing moment on the bike?
Getting poison ivy after peeing in the woods.
What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen on a bike ride?
The General Lee parked outside of Puckett’s in Leiper’s Fork.
What’s the one thing you’ve done on a ride (training or race) that you will absolutely never do again?
Pee in the woods.
When you’re not on your bike, what do you like to do?
Send my resume
What’s the best advice you ever got for training/racing on the bike?
You can’t get stronger with rest and recovery.
Anything else you’d like to share?
Personal motto/words to live by:
“If you can’t eat it or ride it, don’t buy it.”