adventure riding

This week’s long ride had a little bit of all sorts of stuff. Two good dirt road climbs. Tight, twisty, technical singletrack. Fun downhills. Texting while riding (not recommended). and a brief bout of stormy weather. Not quite committed to one particular ride, I left the house on the singlespeed on Sunday afternoon headed towards [...]

6/10 Catamount Race

Welcome to Wednesday night mountain bike racing. I’ve been going to the races for years, cheering on George and our friends or helping out at our tent on our sponsorship nights. But this is the year that I’m going to get out there and race too. I feel like I need to get that feeling of [...]

saturday ride

There’s a quiet dirt road in Stowe with a nice, long, gentle climb that will, eventually, take you to some fun singletrack or enable you to loop around to more dirt roads. Today I rode out there for some more interval work. At one point the road becomes less of a road and more of [...]

boy, am i ever tired

today’s workout involved a series of hill repeats on a pretty steep hill. i didn’t expect them to be that hard, and though it hurt, a lot, they really weren’t that hard.  i thought about throwing up. i gasped for air. i felt oddly disconnected from my body as I entered a flat singletrack section [...]

Riding on Cape Cod

   This past weekend I had the opportunity to head down to Cape Cod for a little mini-break from real life. My parents were down there, and they invited  K and I to come and hang out on the beach. The beach is one of Keiran’s favorite things, one of mine too. It didn’t take [...]