swamped

nothing exciting going on here. now is the time of year when i get to knuckle-down and produce results at work. all of my efforts to be creative and different have netted me a lot more work to do, and i’m totally bogged down. Add in the stuff I need to get done for the [...]

Flower Power Race Report

The VT mountain bike race season has traditionally started off with the Flower Power at Catamount Family Center. It’s been going on for forever, but this was only the second year that I’ve done it. Last year we added a singlespeed focus by also making it the Vermont State Singlespeed Supreme Championships.

The format is 5k laps, [...]

Giving Back

Talking about my real job here for a moment, not the bike shop. We used to do this thing called Ski Day. Kinda like a company picnic, and it sorta involved skiing. In recent years it had become fairly fractured due to not everyone being interested in skiing. This year we decided to change things [...]

strange days

woke up this morning to snow. again. it’s mother’s day. nearly mid-may. winter, your time is over.
it’s been a strange week. I’ve definitely had a sense of point-event depression. Now with SSAP and PMBAR in the past, there’s nothing big and fun looming in the distance. Nothing that I’m really working up towards. Just a [...]

hello exhaustion

what day is it?
holy smokes, PMBAR really smacked me upside the head. I wasn’t so much sore, as just completely and utterly sapped. And it didn’t really hit until that 3rd day after the race. I sat at my desk, in a state a little more awake than this:

Finally I seem to be getting back [...]

PMBAR 2010

Pisgah has been on my list of places that I want to ride for a long time. But with the shop and the job, we’ve never worked out the timing to go down there and do it. So when Emily asked if I had any interest in being her teammate for PMBAR, it seemed like [...]

Still on the road

PMBAR report to come soon.

PMBAR Bound

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 Yoga. [...]

The Aftermath of SSAP

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 [...]

Singlespeed-apalooza Report

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 [...]