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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PMBAR report to come soon.
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. [...]
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 the handlebars [...]
