infinitely sustainable pace

I leave for Pisgah in North Carolina in the morning. Though it’s just me traveling, and I’m only going for five days, I feel a bit like this – Tomorrow night I hope to get to my cousin’s house with enough time to catch the Level II yoga class she teaches as her studio, Shenandoah [...]

Here’s how I looked after my Singlespeed-apalooza finish, enjoying that well earned recovery drink in my hand. This is after I had a small wardrobe change in an attempt to avoid hypothermia. I stripped off the jersey and arm warmers and threw on a fleece cycling jacket and my rain jacket that I was wearing [...]

To cap off our week of not having our kiddo, George and I headed down to New Windsor, NY for Singlespeed-apalooza. It was awesome to look forward to another singlespeed specific race and the date couldn’t of worked out better for us as it put us in a perfect location to get back the kid [...]

Slowly trails are coming back to life. I slipped out in the afternoon and climbed up the road to descend down Tony’s Trail. The trail is hidden under leaves, needles and sticks – but it’s still there. Small green, leafy things poke up from the sides. Just a few patches of mud. Got thrown over [...]

K has school vacation this week and he’s been down in PA with my parents since Sunday. I’ve come to realize how efficient one becomes with a kid due to the juxtaposition of how inefficient I have been in his absence. Monday I worked a little later than normal (no daycare pickup), went out to [...]

Saturday afternoon my dad calls and asked what I was up to. “oh, just finished up buying some whiskey for the aid station for our  bike event tomorrow.” Days asks incredulously, “Whiskey? At the rest stop on your sporting event?” Yes, Dad. It was going to be that sort of day. Saturday morning we woke [...]

woke up this morning to a thin layer of snow and ice covering everything, and the start of the cold, cold rain. looking really awesome for the Gravel Grinder this weekend, I wonder how many no-shows there’ll be? Really, this weather is probably because i’m planning to ride it this year and mother nature thought [...]

I’m getting a new baby niece in a few months and the baby shower is coming up this weekend. Since I can’t be there as it’s on the west coast, I’ve been furiously knitting up a present so I could at least be present in a different sort of way. It’s super cute, more muted [...]

Our big spring event is coming up next weekend, one week ago. I got a lot to do between now and then. Luckily this is year #3 and at least I know what to prepare for. But there is still a lot to do, lists to make, courses to mark, cue sheets to update. On [...]

So yesterday I was talking about the handling characteristics of the One9 and what we were going to try to address them. George changed the travel on my Rock Shox Reba SL from 80mm to 100mm. I thought that the longer travel would make for less favorable, slower handling. But after my first ride on [...]