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Long bike weekend (RIM and UAR 2009)
Knots in my calves, IT band pain in my knee, sore shoulders and forearms, and two great bike rides out of the way. This is long winded account of RIM and UAR. RIM 2009 First up, was the Rapture in...
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Cross season
Cross season has started. As mentioned it started relatively well: I picked up for 2nd in my first race. It was a lowly beginner race which means it was only ~20 minutes and skipped the largest hill...
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Winter training in Missouri has proven interesting. This is the first year that I’ve really strived to train all winter or at least come semblance of training and I think I’ve had some reasonable...
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January 2010 Training
January was the first month I’ve ever really kept track of which days were rest days and which days I did really any “training”. Looks like: Training:rest ratio: 12:31 (0.38) Cross bike: 5 days Road...
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February 2010 Training
Following my January training log, here’s what went down in February: Training:rest ratio: 4:7 (0.57) Cross bike: 1 day Road bike: 5 days — 235.5 miles MTB (trail): 5 days (1 day) — 73.8 miles...
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Death By Evil, Evil Hills 2010
I’ve been on long bike rides where I just hit the “wall”, scrape my way home, just hoping my legs can keep turning the cranks. There have been bike races where I could not even stand on the pedals for...
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March 2010 Training
Training has stepped up, and so have the bruises and scrapes. March was a rough month, but fun. Finally got some weekday sun, some dry-ish trail time, and the first mountain bike race of the year....
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April 2010 Training
Two races this month and some slightly more “focused” training runs lowered my total miles for this month. Mountain bike miles are highest they’ve been this year and all of my days on the mountain...
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May 2010 Training
Three races this month! After logging less than 100 road miles last month, I have jumped back up over 100 and almost topped 200 MTB miles in a month. In May I’m going to try to pick up some running...
View ArticleJune 2010 Training
A much belated post about training in June. July is almost up! And no images to support. Some mini-race reports coming soon as well. Training:rest ratio: 1:2 (0.5) Road bike: 3 days — 102.6 miles MTB:...
View ArticleLessons from CX
This weekend was the first two cyclocross races in the local Bubba Cyclocross series. Saturday’s night races were a blast: a good crowd came out and cheered all the races. The course was mostly flat,...
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Bubba #6, #7, and #8
After a couple breaks from cyclocross for epic mountain bike races, it was back to the skinny tires. Bubba #6 at Queeny Park was going to be a nice refresher for me and it pitted me on terrain that...
View ArticleRacing results
The 2010 racing season has ended (or is that both seasons have ended now?). I’ve previously posted results for the mountain bike season, so here’s an update on the cyclocross season: PRIDE #2 (Godfrey,...
View ArticleDeath by Hills 2011
The Team Seagal crew was at it again with a new edition of their DBH road ride. In 2010 I realized that this ride is best completed with any kind of wussy gearing you can get your hands on: compact,...
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Singletrack weekend
This winter, like last winter, I have been training for the upcoming racing season. This year was a bit more structured as I did two different things: set a goal number of hours of training for each...
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Chasing
Feels great being back on singletrack! This last weekend, I got in another singletrack weekend but this time taking in Matson Hill and Lost Valley trails. The legs are adjusting to back to back...
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Broemmelsieck-Matson Hill Bifecta
This Sunday I decided I wanted to ride Matson, but wasn’t feeling the vibe to ride between Matson and LV (and honestly to climb Matson Hill Rd on my singlespeed). So I opted for the...
View ArticleWinter Gloves
I wrote this up a few years ago, but since we’re getting such abnormally warm January weather, I thought I would delve into a review of some of the gloves I’ve been using the last couple winters. In...
View ArticlePlanning for two big events
As I posted in The Season Ahead, I have my eye on a couple very exciting and desperately different events “early” in the year this season. Or perhaps that should be “early in the season”. First up, I...
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A Long Road
“When you can’t run anymore, you crawl… and when you can’t do that … you find someone to carry you” — Firefly This weekend offered up a new opportunity to test and to suffer. I took on the AntiEpic 150...
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