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Lots to catch-up on

I guess I’m waaay behind but I’ve been uber busy these past few weeks.  So I’ll break the posts down into small chunks over the next few days.  Where did I leave off last time….. I had wrapped up the Pueblo XC and the big man, Brendan Housler was making his way to Boulder (his [...]

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Yin-Yang

I suppose for every good day, theres’ gotta be a bad day.  This past saturday am, had some really great legs.  Weather was gorgeous, trails at Heil & Hall ranch where in mint conditions.  Plan was to go out and just ride a nice tempo/sweet spot pace for the entire duration of the ride.  Felt [...]

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Betasso

Almost forgot about this, we got a new GoPro HD Camera at FasCat Headquarters and I took it out for a little test run at Betasso Preserve, hooked up with Von and Followed him around the loop     Betasso Preserve from Jason Hilimire on Vimeo. Still need to do some work on the editing [...]

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Rockies and Rolling

Wow, what a great (but crazy) weekend just had here in Colorado.  I took Friday off from work & spent some time with Lake.  It was his spring break week off from school.  Decided it would be a great guy trip to head up to the mountains and spend the day at Rocky Mountain National [...]

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MEGA?

What a great weekend.  I wouldn’t say it was ‘epic’ as that word is pretty much played out…. I’ll steal Brendan’s term and call it MEGA. Started off Saturday with a gorgeous morning ride with Lake at Eagle Trail.  We spun the dirt road to the trail head and then did a nice lil out [...]

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Back to the Bone

Sunday, was another day on the dirt. Just couldn’t pull myself enough to hit the roads. Fire was still burning up Lefthand and it was too cool to go up high. Really didn’t feel like going to Carter Lake… Did what any good mountain biker would do! Headed out for some more trails. I rallied [...]

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Sometimes Bad, Sometimes Good

Saturday, I hit the local throwdown Gateway ride.  I’ve not hit this ride up since January of 2009!  Been working on the fitness a bit and finally had a chance to roll with a good group.  If I was back home in NY, I’d having been lacing up the cleats for the spring Giros.  Alas, [...]

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Devil’s Backbone

Never managed to get the rain that was forecasted for Sunday, thus heard some reports that Devil’s Backbone in Loveland was in awesome shape.  I was in desperate need of a dirt fix.  Weather here has been pretty golden, but with the snow that we had the trails just weren’t quite yet ready.  I last [...]

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Cabin Fever

So things finally thawed out a bit this weekend and brought some nice warm temperatures to the front range (& hopefully will continue!)  Got the message from Sonya Looney that she wanted to go big and go up on the mountain bikes.  I had a similar plan so we synced up and headed up.  And [...]

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Weekend Fun

Wow, what a killer week of bike riding and awesome weekend to cap it all off.  Weather was just downright awesome! (As I say that we are paying for it right now with some severe cold and snow).  Managed to get in a really great week of volume and the legs are finally starting to [...]

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