infinitely sustainable pace

Tough week. Between work, weather and daycare snafus I’ve found myself on the short end of the stick for workouts. It’s not that bad, really I’m just behind by one workout. But add in some bad eating this week and i’m not super happy with myself. Uh, but you know what? I’m no pro racer. [...]

This week has found me in search of some more of these elusive cross-country skiing skills, and frankly it’s not going well. On Tuesday I took my skis out and across the street into Town Loops. These are the trails that I bike (and run when I’m running) all the time. I know them better [...]

On Monday mornings I can always judge how hard I went over the weekend by how it feels to climb the three flights of stairs to my office. This morning it hurt. Bad. Between Friday’s downhill cross country ski, 1.5 hours on the skis on Saturday, and 2.25 hours on the singlespeed on Sunday – [...]

A few weeks ago a work colleague asked if I would be interested in joining our corporate team for the Stowe Derby, a downhill cross country ski race. I’m not much of a cross country skier, but I’ve always kinda wanted to do the Derby just so I could say that I did it. Work [...]

So anyway, I rolled into the finish area. I had my pizza and a beer and happily scored a snazzy Twin 6 jersey for my efforts that day. We were just getting into a fierce game of boules when Deejay called for the Decider. At SSUSA the winner is not the fastest, but the one [...]

Saturday dawned clear and warm. We pulled up to the starting place to find the Dales Pale Ale RV setting up shop and loads of singlespeeders in various degrees of undress, spandex and costume. It’s not quite the fancy dress party that SSWC is, but there were a fair amount of folks that opted for [...]

i’m at a bit of a disadvantage here, i don’t have too many photos of my own from this weekend but I know they’re out there, i just have to wait for them to show up so i can borrow them. this, being the second trip out for SSAZ, was a highly anticipated trip. How [...]

Look for the tale tomorrow, but for now look at what is coming home with me from SSUSA: