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 [...][...]
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 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[...]
