Training

Elevation Correction is a Garmin setting that I had inadvertently disabled when I was training in the flatlands.  I recently discovered this...

I'm sorry, but I've been thinking of that post `title' almost all morning as I climbed from Skull Valley to the top of Iron Spri...

Got a late start (12:15pm) at the hottest time of the day (92 - 93). Up, over and back over the mountain again. Rushed back home to finish ...

Skull Valley Loop Challenge The Skull Valley Challenge is a 55 mile loop with over 4500 feet of climbing.  More than half of the loop tak...

These past 3 weeks of summary data: WEEK 1: Hrs trained:   7.33 hours Miles:  79.26 Feet of climbing: 6,954 WEEK 2: Hrs trained:   1...

The plan was to ride the 34 miles and 3,700 feet of climbing to and from Wilhoit. But I sensed even before I started that I was on the ed...

It wasn't pretty ... but it WAS:  4,519 feet of climbing in 56.29 miles. Skull Valley Loop - 08-10-2011 I was fit for about 40 of th...

Almost a year ago I entitled a post `Balance.'  Had to do with balancing job, family, training, private time, time to do nothing.  I did...

Everything carries some risk. Those of us who think they avoid risk are, in fact, risking the possibility of a good outcome to an anxiety ...

Not as in `Darth Vader.'  Dearth means there is a relative scarcity of something.  There is a `dearth' of recumbent cyclists where...

Going south from Prescott the rider has two choices.  One option is to take 89A; the other is to take Iron Springs Road. 89A to Wilhoit ha...

Plan was to ride from my house to Wilhoit and back: 35 miles.  Nothing special, just over the mountains and back.  Got to Wilhoit and was te...

As a caveat, I am not a mountain bike owner or rider.  No off-road dirt trails (yet) for me.  So the gearing description that follows relate...

As I peck out these words I'm sitting in our home, looking out over a few dipping valleys and buttes toward the horizon filled with tall...

Like everything I've done in my life I've set goals that are about 50% too big.  I did that a few weeks ago with my AZ training prog...

After a few hours of shakedown and dialing in the gearing I managed to get out for 25 miles of gently rolling hills (max 3%), out and back t...

House in Chicago is now history to us.  Arrived in our new home in Prescott yesterday in time to take a quick nap, enjoy a glass of wine wit...

When reviewing the dozens and dozens of posts I've written in this blog over the past 18 months this is the one that has gotten the most...

My training plan for the next several months is shaping up.  To accomplish the ultracycling speed and distance goals that I have will take b...

Retired today.  Lots of memories.  Lots of sadness.   Will miss soooo many good people.  The King is dead. Long live the King.

Today is Tuesday.  For the past six months I've been working 3 day weeks: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.  Long about on Tuesdays I'd ...

I don't really have anything of import (as far as `training' is concerned) to say in this post but I guess I just wanted to emphasiz...

Five weeks ago I went for my annual check up with my doc.  We've known eachother for the past 25 yearrs and we've always enjoyed kee...

The government dithers over whether or not cycling is dirty (grand juries, subpoenas, etc) and whether Lance doped.  Of course, nobody likes...

Stage 14 of the Giro d'Italia - Saturday, May 21, 2011 As it turned out the Race Organizers concluded that this section of Stage 14 wa...