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Climbing Higher

Still chugging along.  We got some snow this past thursday/friday, but things warmed up pretty good over the weekend and melted the snow away.  Made for some good riding this weekend, but crazy winds!  Not nearly as windy as it has been, but just happened to center my ride around the time that the blue [...]

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Little Gains

As you can see below, weather was pretty dang amazing today. Tomorrow is looking sketchy, but hoping to get a a short ride in on the dirt. Headed out with the big cat Frank himself for a short bit, up and over 4 mile, then up Poormans and down Sunshine. I dropped Frank off and [...]

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Can’t beat it

As the cold snap broke for us this past weekend, these past few days have been absolutely gorgeous.  Managed to sneak out for some short but efficient rides.  Tuesday was a great day and headed up high to Jamestown, and down, up and over Olde Stage then again up and over Lee Hill.  Couldn’t beat [...]

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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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Another Great Weekend

What can I say, this past weekend was a great weekend of fun.  How can you call it training, when it’s such a blast to do?  Training to some conjures up puddles of sweat in the basement, counting calories, every workout planned, etc.  To myself & others it’s a nice extension of your natural being. [...]

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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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Stagnation

Stagnation

Wow, been almost 2 months since a blog post.  Been way to busy.  Marriage, Honeymoon, Moving back to Boulder has consumed pretty much all of my time.  I’ll keep this short and simple and lots of pretty pictures. Wrapped up my mountain bike race season with the Shenandoah 100 and the Liberty Classic in Northern [...]

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Lady Luck has departed

WTF even gone when I wrote his post…. As I just had it all typed out and disappeared!! Grrrr! Now for the short and pissed off version. Managed 5th overall and 3rd age at the Singletrack stampede. Broke my chain on the 1st lap & then next lap, busted up my front derailleur. After a [...]

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Mettre a jour

Mettre a jour

No idea why I used a french title, maybe too much watching the tour last month?  Anyways loads going on around here.  The biggest news is I got a new article published in the CycleOps Power newsletter!  If you’re subscribed to the newsletter you probably seen my mug in your email inbox (subscribe here).  If [...]

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Riding my bike

Riding my bike

I put some good miles on the road bike this weekend.  More so than I have in quite a bit.  Two back to back days of some good ol fashioned endurance riding.  Saturday, I rode down to Ithaca and back.  Lil bit boring route, mostly flat, some good views of the lake, but nothing spectacular. [...]

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