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Goals

As I sit here typing this snow is gently falling down on boulder.  1 day of winter isn’t all that bad compared to the great weather we’ve had.  So far though it seems like most places across the country are getting mild temps.  I keep getting emails from all my back east athletes, asking to [...]

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Snow Day

Firstly, I hope everyone had a most excellent Christmas. That Santa brought them whatever goodies they wanted. While we were stuck here in Colorado for our first Christmas away from family in New York, it was still an enjoyable day. Great news & congratulations to my sister & Sean who are expecting!! In case you [...]

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Training some

Yeah, I’ve been training some. Slowly kicked things back off this last week of thanksgiving. Been nice to get back on the bike as the weather last few until today has been good (Right now though we’ve dived full steam into winter). Between bike time and getting back into the gym, slowly starting to accrue [...]

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Windy Weekend

Wow was it windy this past weekend! If you attempted to get outside here in Colorado you were well aware. You can see below the wind speed span below from Saturday through Sunday morning. Wind speeds peaking near 70 mph during Saturday’s ride and hitting nearly 90 mph overnight! That made for some fun riding [...]

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2012 is gonna be EPIC!

Literally , signed with the Epic Endurance Team to race with for 2012 season. The team was a force to be reckoned with during the 2011 season and I bumped into the riders at nearly every race I attended.  So it was a natural fit to ride for them (can’t beat em’ join em’).  I [...]

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Been a Year Already

Wow, it came and went without any celebrations, but technically I’ve been in Colorado for 1 year. I only remembered when I got my email from REI telling me happy anniversary!  I’m not going to do a year long recap of sad sappy photos and stories though.  Sorry to disappoint but you can look through [...]

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Colorado Buffs Race Weekend-Gunnison

Like I mentioned in the previous blog post, I’m now the University of Colorado mountain bike coach.  Part of that job entails heading to the races with the team to provide support, encouragement and make sure everybody is where they need to be for their races.  Part of it is herding cats, but lots of [...]

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Happenings

Been a busy body lately this month.  Seems like everything has been crunched into September and I’m sure that October will likely be just as busy.  Been racing some cyclocross at Valmont and at Xilinx. But the big deal is I started working with the University of Colorado mountain bike race team!!  GO BUFFS!!  Super [...]

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Labored Weekend Pt. 2

Well, I was gonna post this last Friday, but apparently I borked twitter and blew up everyone’s feeds…. Uploaded with Skitch! So decided to let things cool a bit and you can all enjoy know that my facebook photo albums are right there in my blog site.  So if you’re not on the ‘book, you [...]

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Labored Weekend Pt. 1

I’ll call this part 1 as I’ll write up a separate post for mondays ride.  Managed to get out for some awesome riding this past weekend!  It definitely helped ease my disappointment that I wasn’t racing the Shenandoah 100. Saturday in Nederland, not quite the Nederland in Europe as Lake believes, but it does feel [...]

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