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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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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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Looking up

Things have really started to mesh well the last few weeks. Been getting some good ride time in on the bike & all the snow is starting to melt. The sun is even shining! Few days last week I managed some early morning road rides along the lakefront. Something quite serene & peaceful about it. [...]

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More or less the same

Things have been pretty much more or less of the same on the training front. Been riding the cross bike on the snow covered roads. Much more fun with the new powertap on her. Put in 3 hours Jens factor 4, on Saturday. It was snowing pretty good all ride. Even found a super fun [...]

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Snow Cross

Snow Cross

3rd times a charm right? Typed this out 2x on the phone already & failed to post. Oh Well. Keep it short. Hit up some snow covered roads on the cross bike last night. Way more fun the rollers. Super serene & peacefull out there.

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Stealth mode?

Stealth mode?

I’ve not kept up on the blogging front, but I have been training! You might just call it stealth mode training I guess nowadays. As everytime someone goes on a bike ride apparently there’s suppose to be a blog post with pictures and powercharts/tweet/or facebook update. (I’m guilty on the twitter/facebook thing as it’s just [...]

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Call off the SAR…

Call off the SAR…

It’s ok really, I’m still alive. My off season has come and gone. You can call off the search & rescue crew, I’m finally making a blog post. I’ve even ridden my bike a few times… These guys were looking in the wrong spot, we didn’t get snow till today So I took a few [...]

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XC Ski at Eldora

XC Ski at Eldora

Weather didn’t looks so nice today for a bike road. Besides, every now and then you gotta switch things up and keep things fresh. With that in mind I headed up to the Eldora Nordic Center to put in a solid 4 hours on the xc skiis. Trails were groomed, temps were perfect was looking [...]

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Winter

Winter

Last day here in NY. Nothing like heading out for a nice ride on the frozen tundra. Short but sweet, managed to get in a workout and stay off the trainer. I did manage to fall once on the icy roads though and crack my elbow pretty good. Hurt like a mother. It was solid [...]

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