infinitely sustainable pace

All day yesterday, the view from my office windows was nothing but sunshine and blue sky. Honestly, that’s really all I can see. Sky mostly. The tops of some trees and a bit of the Worchester mountain range on the right. My point being, from my vantage point outside-world looked totally awesome yesterday and as [...]

My Niner One9 still isn’t back together from SSAZ/SSUSA. I wanted new brakes for it ever since I used the Hayes Stroker Grams down in GA in January. Those brakes gave me the feel of stopping that i was looking for. I like a lot of STOP for a little bit of pull, and my [...]

What a fantastic weekend we had up here. I really lucked out and spent a lot of time outside. The sun was shining, the snow was melting and temps in the 40s felt mighty fine. Saturday was VT tax-free day, so George was tied up in the shop all day selling lots of bikes. I [...]

Let’s see, I think that I nailed my 2009 goal of Not Sucking So Much on a Bike. For 2010 I think my goal is to Be Much Faster. Consistently so. I’m not planning to become a racer, because I’m so slow that me Being Much Faster is still quite a bit slower than the average racing [...]

this is it. then we’re back to biking.
they put up the pro photos today, so i’ll share with you the highlights. I don’t seem to be able to ‘borrow’ them for my site so here are some links for you:
Going around the turn, calm is my name, control is my game.
1K from the finish, eye [...]

It was a fine day for the first, and last, day of my cross country ski racing career. The temps were warm, the sun was shining while we were standing around at the top of Stowe waiting to start, and the snow was soft and forgiving.
My expectations going into this 16K ‘downhill’ race were low, [...]

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 than [...]

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 - I [...]

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 [...]