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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[...]

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 [...][...]