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Temperatures have been unreal here for March, 70 degrees and perfect blue sky’s.  I’m thirsting for Dirt, like a Heroin addict during withdrawal; I need my fix soon or going to go crazy.  Trails are opening up and everyone else is out riding mountain bikes!  Watching the World Cup XCO Opener from RSA on the [...]

Momentum is continuing on the training front.  The weather has been fairly in favor of training (except for all the crazy wind) and today was a short sleeve and jersey day to keep working on those tan lines!  I’ll happily take that anytime. Like the title implies, training has been going well.  That good feeling [...]

Well, not quite my new mountain bike, but that is ACTUALLY here, just awaiting on some SRAM XX parts.  But, I did finally get myself a new road bike! Rossetti Vertigo Now, I realize, it’s not quite all that in the road cycling world, I mean look at it, where’s the carbon deep dish wheels?! [...]

Yes, winter is every bit still here.  Cold temps and steady snowfall over the past week or so have remained.  Everybody is grumbling about the cold and the snow.  I’ve embraced it, it’s really not all that bad.  I’ve dealt with plenty of cold, harsh winters back in Upstate NY and well, honestly this is [...]

Well, up until about 10pm last night, I’d have to say this past weekend was definitely one of the greatest.  That was all thrown out the door though when Lizzy started throwing up last night and constantly whining.  I thought at first she might have had just an upset stomach, but then she was throwing [...]

Just came of a near perfect weekend.  Temps were gorgeous all around every day (and actually getting even warmer today).  Decided to hit the road on Saturday and ride up Lefthand Canyon all the way up to Ward.  Last time I was out here, I had ridden the climb a whole bunch, but actually haven’t [...]

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 [...]

So since I got my new Garmin 800, also got myself set up on an account with Strava (follow me here).  So far it’s dang addictive.  You upload your rides and data, if someone else has ridden it you get a performance comparison against them.  You can score KOM points or personal best on sections [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]