I went to Mountain Bike Oregon last year with a big group of Portland Velo team mates, but back then I was a normal paying guest. This year I was a guest of a guide, which meant I got in for free, but I had to volunteer and I couldn’t take any of the shuttles. [...][...]
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August 9th, 2010 - 11:49 am § in MTB
Stress and Mountain biking
The past few weeks have been filled with an ungodly amount of work stress (and will continue to be for a little while). I’ve been pretty much either eating, sleeping, working or riding (which, as a side note, has kept me within my $40/week going out budget). On Saturday I got home from a four [...]
August 3rd, 2010 - 10:21 am § in MTB, Race Reports
Short Track Finale
What can I say? I had an amazing race. My original thought was to again just soft pedal the first lap to save my back. But as we lined up to start, I thought to myself: fuck it. I’m racing. I wasn’t even last coming to the first corner and managed to not be last the whole [...][...]
Short Track, Chris King, and Wrenching
A week ago was my second short track race of the season, and I changed my strategy, with my focus being on a back-pain-free race. So I essentially soft pedaled my first lap, sitting in the back, actually wishing the couple of people in front of me would go faster on the technical sections, that [...[...]
Back in the groove
After short track, I rode downtown and home Wednesday-Friday, I rode out to Forest Park, rode at a hard pace (for me) for 2 hours, rode home; rode 2 hours in the west hills on Saturday and then did some mountain biking on Hood on Sunday. And now it’s short track day [...][...]
Race Report (!) – Short Track
I started getting nervous about racing around 4:30pm, even though I knew that I would not be able to give my best effort. I would probably be nervous going over anything vaguely technical, I am out of racing shape and it would be my first short track as a cat 1. I figured there was [...][...]
July 17th, 2010 - 9:26 pm § in Ride Reports
Larch Mountain made my junk numb
While not totally back to normal, I actually did quite a lot of workouts this week; did a hard ride on Wednesday, did my own version of Tedder’s strength class Tuesday/Thursday, and then today. Oh today. I haven’t been so completely wiped out from a ride since I started riding bikes way [...]
I love bikes
A few weeks ago, I started riding my road bike on my trainer, which was interesting; my back felt OK, but my heart rate was just off the charts, and I was barely pedaling. I was doing 10 minute intervals (10 “on”, 5 “off, although my heart rate was generally super high all the time[...]
June 8th, 2010 - 8:45 am § in MTB, Spinal Injury
How not to jump
I have a stub of a blog entry for the sister’s stampede race, but that’s going to have to wait. Saturday I set out with a few friends to finally ride Surveyor’s+Knebal+8 mile. The trails were in absolutely perfect shape, the temps were in the 70s and sunny after a long week of rain[...]
May 25th, 2010 - 3:50 pm § in Cycling, Deep Thoughts
Kristin rides…sometimes
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[...]
