There I was, swooping down a buff, flowy trail - totally in my groove. Totally thinking about lunch. What sort of fabulous spread would be waiting for me when I finished up this mountain bike business at hand? And then - bam. Front tire went out from under me and I went down. On nothing [...]
Women’s Weekend at Mulberry Gap
scenes from an early spring ride
we finally got several days of warmish, sunny weather and i was lucky to get out several times. a two hour dirt/paved cross bike ride on Friday was invigorating - but not quite warm enough. my feet and hands froze and made the final 30 minutes pretty unbearable.
On Saturday I zipped out for an hour, [...]
Gravel Grinder Recon
We’re putting an event on in April, the Gravel Grinder Spring Classic Dirt Road Ride. This will be the 2nd year that we’ve made it “public”, though it’s a ride that was part of our spring routine for several years before we opened it up. this year we want to add on a ‘hero’ loop [...]
spinning
the last spin class i did was in 1998. I made it 11 years without spinning, and this was a good thing for me. i was happy with that. spin class just seemed so utterly pointless.
last night i settled onto the bike at the gym and hunkered down for a 1.5 hour ride. i’ve done [...]
not enough time
Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day. Cold in the beginning, but i was confident that things would warm up satisfactorily by the early afternoon.
And I was right.
However, I didn’t figure the day to be quite so convoluted. The dog had to get walked. Flyers for the Gravel Grinder needed to get printed. George [...]
saturday special
i wasn’t expecting to get outside on an actual bike today. saturday is normally a class at the gym and an hour spin afterwards. but i didn’t make the class this morning for a really lame reason. that reason was that overnight it went from 40 degrees and raining, to 10 degrees and totally freezing. [...]
