This has been a remarkably different year for me in terms of training and cycling from the previous three. Honestly, I haven’t really been riding much, and I don’t have any kind of training plan. I try to put in a few long rides here and there, often failing (this weekend, as one example[...]
Archive for May, 2010
May 24th, 2010 - 1:04 pm § in MTB
Birthday “ride”
Another birthday come and gone. And you know what that means! No, I didn’t cry myself to sleep thinking about how terribly old I’m getting, but I hit the trail in celebration of all things fat tire-d. Well, at least we tried to. The weather was looking downright atrocious, and from the w[...]
May 18th, 2010 - 9:42 pm § in MTB
Utah MTB – Part Four
So we woke at the crack of mid-morning, ate breakfast and packed up. And then drove back to Springdale to say goodbye to his Aunt and see her hotel (which of course has amazing views etc), and then we drove to another small city on the way out looking for his cousin’s house…we spent mayb[...]
May 18th, 2010 - 9:33 pm § in MTB
Utah MTB – Part Three
The night before, Preston told his cousin we’d be back from riding around 10 or 11am (with a look from me, revised that to noon). Which was interesting because the trail we were slated to ride was estimated to take 3 hours, and this is from someone who knows the trail and does races like [...][...]
May 17th, 2010 - 11:55 am § in Cycling
How I became a mechanic – a diversion
While I wait for a certain someone to upload his photos from Moab so I can post my parts 3 and 4 to the trip, I thought I’d do a short update of all things not Utah-related. The day before we left, I acquired two new bikes. My original intention was to buy back my Miyata [...][...]
May 12th, 2010 - 9:45 pm § in MTB
Utah MTB – Part Two
Read Part One here Sleeping in. Not something I do very often, with early morning strength training classes, all day MTB adventures, early morning team rides…so I relish the times when I get to stay in bed long past the sun’s arrival, laz about making breakfast, and be slow until I damn [...]
May 11th, 2010 - 9:54 pm § in MTB
Utah MTB – Part One
The start of the trip set the tone for the rest: we got up and left later than we intended, both of us tired from stress and lack of sleep. The storm cloud ahead of us We drove through rain, we drove through snow, we drove through driving rain and SLC traffic on a 10 lane highway [...][...]
