infinitely sustainable pace

Today’s Word of the Day is particularly apropos to what I’ve been thinking about this weekend. sitzfleisch MEANING: noun: 1. The ability to sit through or tolerate something boring. 2. The ability to endure or persist in a task. ETYMOLOGY: [From German Sitzfleisch, from sitzen (to sit) + Fleisch (flesh). Earliest documented use: Before 1930. [...]

Yesterday was the first annual Woman Day. Woman Day is a blatant copy of something the boys do every year called ‘Man Day’, but we did it in our own style. We started out by fueling at the best breakfast place in town, Park Row. While we were eating ourselves out from under a huge [...]

Saturday was one of those days. After enjoying 40 and 50 degrees and sunshine on Thursday and Friday, I woke up on Saturday to 3 inches of new snow, grey skies, and a vicious howling wind whipping that new snow across the yard. I didn’t have too much that I really needed to do, and [...]

I went back to see Dr. Steelthumbs today, and he confirmed my opinion that I’m making progress. It still hurts, but it’s a much more reasonable 2 as opposed to the 8 of last week. The swelling has mostly subsided, it’s moving around much more normally, and best of all the tendons aren’t creaking in [...]

To save you from listening to me complain about my arm and the incredibly stressful day I had yesterday, I thought I’d follow up on the whole Camelback thing that I discussed the other week. Dicky was right, it’s a good pack. Based on my first outing with it at SSAZ, the Octane LR and I [...]

So I spent all of last week whining about my arm and how much it hurts. On Friday it still hurt fairly bad, but the sun was shining and I felt like I hadn’t done anything all week (which I hadn’t) so I decided to keep on with my Friday lunchtime XC ski routine and [...]

At least I have a few things to remember SSAZ by…a few bruises from my Friday crash, the sharp, stabbing pain in my right forearm and a wicked glove tan. Up until this trip I had been very consisently training. Training to ride, sure, but also training to be able to have a few beers [...]

After the riding part of SSAZ wrapped up, Team Bike29 climbed triumphantly into the executor and drove off into a brilliant sunset. Hot showers were had as well as post-ride burgers at In-n-Out. Then we proceded to the Surly Wench for some bands and some beers and some whisky in honor of SSWC11 in Ireland. [...]

As I mentioned in my earlier post, my trip out to Tucson was a little dramatic.  I have never had to fly by the seat of my pants like that, and hope that i don’t have to do it very often. My arrival in Tucson on Thursday night never would have happened without the assistance of [...]

sorry, i can’t type up a tidy report of my SSAZ trip just yet. I flew down the trails so fast that I totally aggravated my trick arm and the pain is so great that typing is not my favorite activity right now. Should be improving by tomorrow. In the meantime, gaze at this little [...]