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 [...[...]
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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[...]
March 29th, 2010 - 8:32 am § in Cycling, Ride Reports
Spokane: getting to know you
It’s still amazing to me how you can grow up in a town and still really have no idea where anything is or have such a limited knowledge of the surrounding area. I brought my bike along with me again for the weekend, as I went into town for another wedding. Saturday the weather was [...][...]
Syncline; HC 100
Saturday afternoon, me and 2 friends drove out to Hood River for a quick ride around Syncline. This was actually the first time I’ve ridden the entire thing in one ride; John kept scaring us by mentioning a hellacious 2 hour climb; it turned out to be about a 40 minute climb, and while pretty[...]
February 1st, 2010 - 9:07 pm § in MTB, Ride Reports
Mountain bike FAIL; Lacamas Lake FAIL
While I’ve had a lot of janky bike moments on the trail in the past (“oh you appear to be missing two of your chain ring bolts”), I’ve never actually been forced to turn around because of them. Well, there’s a first time for everything. The weather didn’t look pre[...]
January 24th, 2010 - 2:11 pm § in Ride Reports
Big motherfucking weekend
Saturday morning I decided I wanted to have my legs ripped off. I wanted to hurt so much all I could think about was each pedal stroke and how only through extreme concentration could I keep from vomiting all over my handlebars. And so I went for my first race paced team ride. It was a [...][...]
January 10th, 2010 - 7:43 pm § in Ride Reports
No More Excuses
I have a lot of really great excuses for missing team rides for the last month. I was nervous about having to push it if my knee were to start to hurt, and then be lost somewhere out in the middle of no where if I couldn’t keep the pace up. I was nervous that because I [...][...]
November 23rd, 2008 - 9:45 pm § in MTB, Ride Reports
Wrenching & Snow Biking
The weekend definitely began on Friday night…it involved 1 glass of sake, 1 martini, 2 beers, a glass of wine, Embers, walking an hour in pointy heels back to the car across the Hawthorne Bridge, realizing I left my keys in my purse which I had given to Alex who went home, and coming home [...[...]
October 28th, 2008 - 7:00 pm § in Ride Reports
Astoria!
First of all, please ignore how ugly the site looks right now… I updated it and lost all my designs, but i was going to redesign it anyway, so i didn’t bother to try to fix it. Astoria: What AMAZING weather! Sunny, 60-70’s, it was summer on the coast, at the end of October. Complet[...]
