I remember the days when I would update this blog every day, sometimes twice a day. Those were the days when I was training heavily, putting in 10 or more workouts a week, counting the hours I put in on the bike, keeping track of my calories and my plan and staring at the OBRA calendar for at least an hour a day.
Suffice it to say, things have changed. read more
Me and two teammates drove to Echo, Oregon on Friday in the early evening, stopping briefly in Hood River to enjoy some Double Mountain love. We arrived in Echo around 9pm with some hand scrawled directions that said things like “take a left after the air strip and the windmill, a right just a[...]
… that whole novel thing? A few weeks ago I reread some of my notes and started thinking about it again. And then California. And then moving. Excuse excuse whine whine. The truth of the matter is that something this huge has to be at the forefront of my mind all the time, otherwise I forget [[...]
What does it mean to me, to let go? I’m a control freak, I’m a perfectionist, I scare easily. And yet that’s not who I want to be. I want to let go. At the same time I also tend to trust my gut, listen to my intuitive, I have become impulsive… but I am [...][...]
Remember back when I said I didn’t want to race until April? Why, was that again? Oh yes, I haven’t been training to race (no intervals training, no speed work, no race pace anything), I don’t want to burn out early, etc. Well, given that this is me we’re talking about, I de[...]
I’ve changed some stuff around, and decided to make a go at the Oregon MTB XC Series races, those are colored in blue. Now, there’s one problem. You have to race 7 races to be considered in contention. I will probably end up getting cat’d up very quickly. In fact if I podium at Red[...]
At some point in the near future I will post up all my write ups about Santa Barbara. It was an amazing trip that thoroughly tired me out, although to be honest I had much more energy at the end of every day then I thought, and by the end of the week I felt [...][...]
