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[...]
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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[...]
October 8th, 2008 - 9:14 pm § in Ride Reports
Hitting the road & the weight room
Yesterday my team had a strength clinic with Upper Echelon Fitness. It made me remember all the stuff I was going to do last winter and never really did. I always start strong with a strength training program; I got up pretty high with my weights doing full squats last year, if I remember correctly.[...]
A new record
My bike club’s century was Saturday; we did it in just about 5 hours, ~19mph average, which is a new record for me. Woohoo; the route was beautiful through Yamhill wine country, and the temps were perfect. What a great ride, with great people! I also added about an inch to my farmers tan; ther[...]
July 13th, 2008 - 5:54 am § in MTB, Ride Reports
Epic
I think a while back I seem to remember posting about how I couldn’t wait until that one day, when my mountain biking skills and fitness would reach that point where I no longer get the jitters when I get on my bike, and when I could just *ride* without having to dismount all the [...][...]
July 7th, 2008 - 8:15 am § in Ride Reports
Longest day in the saddle. ever.
Before I get to that, I’ll hit on Saturday. I went out with 2 PV gals and hit up the Wilson River Trail in the Tillamook State Forest. It was my first time there, and I was very impressed. For the most part the trail was baby smooth, a few large climbs, but given that [...][...]
May 4th, 2008 - 7:59 pm § in Ride Reports
RACC century & Scappose MTB
Saturday I went out with a few other PVers for the Ride Around Clark County century. We round around…well, Clark County, starting in Vancouver and heading out to Amboy along the Lewis River. It was an absolutely beautiful course, and the weather stayed mostly dry with a few teases of almost-su[...]
