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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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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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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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Freestylin’

Freestylin’

No not rap freestylin! I’m hosed right now, that about sums up todays workout. Weather right now is unbelievable for February. Far to good to pass up a climb up into the hills. At first I was a little weary that I would still be a bit tired from the weekend, so I did a [...]

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Tempo Bursts

Tempo Bursts

Headed out for some Tempo Bursts this afternoon. One of my favorite workouts. Seems to make the intervals go by so much quicker when you do a little sprint a few times during the efforts. I’m the worst at doing long intervals, not bad when you can do them on a climb, but always loathe [...]

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Home with the snow people

Home for a the next few days, this place is buried under a few feet of snow, and the people are buried under few layers of clothes. Bridget had her surgery and is recovering well, though she’ll probably have to stay behind tomorrow when I take Lake sledding. Tired and sore, hopefully she’ll swing through [...]

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Heil frozen over/Heading Home

Heil frozen over/Heading Home

This past Sunday, I hit up Heil Ranch with Kat Statman his blog is here, original plans were to do the Heil/Hall double. It was friggin cold, I think my car had 13 degrees and a light dusting of snow had fallen. We hit the trails and climbed up Wild Turkey and down Picture Rock. [...]

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