*****WARNING! Long and very pathetic post ahead! ****** (although there is something redeeming at the end of it) My team met with Russell Cree of Upper Echelon Fitness for a talk about setting up a training plan. The basics of training cycles and training with power and testing and zones; the basic [...]
Archive for November, 2008
November 10th, 2008 - 10:54 am § in Cyclocross, Race Reports
Cross Crusade: PIR
I admit: I feel worse and worse at each cross race. Not so much that I’m slower or physically feeling worse, but I’m definitely mentally worse. I just… don’t really try. I don’t take chances. I don’t push it. It’s really lame, but my heart’s just not i[...]
November 9th, 2008 - 10:03 am § in Uncategorized
Fixies, spring cleaning, and monsoons
The cleaning madness actually started last week and continued most nights after work, but came to a full head on Saturday, with the two of us cleaning madly for 6 hours straight. For the past 5 or 6 years, I’ve moved every year… except this one. The beauty of constantly moving is that yo[...]
November 6th, 2008 - 9:20 am § in Uncategorized
On blogging & writing
You may not know this, but I have been blogging since… well, before the word “blog” existed, about 1998 (all of those blogs have mysteriously vanished..aka they’re on floppies in a box somewhere and no computer has floppy drives anymore so I guess I will never read that shit [...]
November 5th, 2008 - 11:21 am § in Uncategorized
Obama wins!
Well, I think everyone’s well aware of that… I just wanted to make note of where I was and what I was thinking, you know, for historical purposes. I was home. Alone. In the middle of a huge apartment makeover (turning the art/office/shit room into an art/office/bike room). I did my train[...]
November 3rd, 2008 - 1:30 pm § in Uncategorized
Cross Crusade: Barton Park
Let’s just say I spent way more time cleaning mud out of my bike/clothes/ass then I spent racing. Barton Park aka The Gravel Pit ate racers alive. At least 1 trip to the ER (a BAD face first endo), 1 broken knee and 2 broken collar bones, and that’s just what I witnessed or heard about. [...]
