Training

October 19th and I'm feeling like I'm just getting started on my cycling season.  Last year at this time I was putting on the weight...

I just sent a comment to the spam folder.  The author of the comment did not identify him/herself and made claims without attribution of sou...

Coming north on White Spar Road (89A) from Wilhoit to Prescott, AZ.  As one leaves Wilhoit there are signs warning drivers of dangerous moun...

Speed # One:  All out race! Speed # Two:  Dead stop! Conclusion?  Delusional thinking and denial of the reality of dealing with time and ...

Left knee.  Had nothing to do with cycling. Definition of chondromalacia patella : ( By Mayo Clinic staff)   The cartilage under your kn...

In graduate school we had to learn how to diagnosis mental disorders.  There is a `big book of mental disorders' that all credentialed f...

Skull Valley Loop Challenge Garmin Data The heart rate data are completely wrong. There were power lines that screwed with the HR. And ...

Training in the Arizona deserts and mountains is humbling.  In the midwest there was a farm or a town within spitting distance of most anypl...

Here it is Friday, September 2nd, and I know that I've got at least four good months of training ahead of me.  No more of this `dash...

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...