Well, I finally had my LT test with Russell today. Stacked against me: I have been pretty much off the bike (in terms of training) for the last month and a half, two months. I know. I have never done any bike testing before… ever. Unless a race counts as a test. I learned to snowboard the day[...]
Archive for December, 2008
December 29th, 2008 - 1:18 pm § in Deep Thoughts
New Challenges
I feel like scouring the internet looking for something for New Years Resolutions, but I’m not really sure what for, since this is not a tradition in which I typically take part. Maybe by reading about other people’s resolutions I will catch some sort of goal-achievement bug; isn’t[...]
December 28th, 2008 - 8:31 pm § in Snowboarding
Something white this way comes…
So, after being trapped in my apartment, except a few trips to the store here and there, I decided on Friday that I just had to DO something, something that would take up my entire day. Hm, well mountain biking is generally the only thing that comes to mind. Obviously that’s out. So… tur[...]
December 22nd, 2008 - 10:26 pm § in Uncategorized
Arctic Blast 2008: ENOUGH ALREADY
So much f*n snow. This weekend we did little besides trudge to New Seasons and drink. I did attempt to go mountain biking in the snow, but it was far too deep on the side streets, and when I finally got some speed going on a more main road that was packed snow/ice, I majorly wiped [...][...]
December 17th, 2008 - 9:53 am § in Food & Diet
On and off and on the wagon
I’ve finally come to terms with something about myself: I am really bad at being on diets. During the week, generally, I have no problems. But as soon as special events (aka going to a bar) crop up, wham! All bets are off. Although, not entirely; generally when I feel like I’m in “[...]
December 14th, 2008 - 4:26 pm § in MTB
SNOW!
I am so sad I don’t have my new camera yet, because the sites today were pretty amazing. I was supposed to have a big cocktail party last night, but early in the morning the newscasters moved the snow storm up to 4pm. So we called it off early, since I didn’t want to spend [...][...]
December 12th, 2008 - 11:20 am § in Racing
Tentative Schedule
March Banana Belt Series 1st, 7th, 15th April Cherry Festival Classic Stage Race - 3rd-5th Bear Springs Trap XC/STXC – 25th-26th May Cascade Chainbreaker XC - 10th Silverton RR – 17th Rehearsal Road Race – 30th June Elkhorn Classic Stage Race – 19-21st July 8 Hour[...]
December 11th, 2008 - 10:14 pm § in Food & Diet, Workouts
Ass = kicked, Soy Zone, and Power-tap envy
I’ve started attending my strength training class twice a week now. Yesterday I upped my weight on just about everything and really pushed myself to go a bit further (like doing 1-legged 1-armed planks, eg. left arm straight out and right leg straight out at the same time). That one’s a [...]
December 11th, 2008 - 8:25 am § in Uncategorized
FYI
I am in the midst of rejiggering the blog. I had a design almost done that was super cool, but I realized that I would never finish programming it. So I found a free one and am using that for now. [...]
December 8th, 2008 - 4:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Stop comparing yourself to others
I just stumbled upon this blog post over at Zen Habits and I have to say, it pretty much hits the nail on the head. The Effects of Social Comparisons But let’s take a look for a moment at what’s wrong with comparing yourself with others: * Like I said, it’s usually an unfair comparison to star[...]
