Training

Two things combined to bring this little story back to mind. First, we're getting all manic again about RAAM this time of year. Second, ...

Slow learner. Or, avid contestant for the Darwin Award. Motorcyclists (those that survive) love the roads around here. More road shrines t...

Day of differences.  Maybe even contrasts.  Did my 2nd fastest training run today from Prescott to Wilhoit and back.  34 miles and 4200 fe...

The mountains start in Congress and continue on and on. Though I haven't done an analysis I would guess that exhaustion and rookie st...

Seeing all the news about Sebring, BC24, and, now, Calvin's has made me miss being more centrally located, i.e., in the midwest.  I'...

I was off the bike traveling for about 10 days.  `Me' without the bike for ten days ... is not a pretty site.  I was tense, withdrawn, q...

Since I `retired' from my `job' last June my `work' life has resulted in a number of benefits.  I've lost 32 lbs and expec...

In competitive cycling it is folly and a waste to have much of an ego.  I got a new pair of pedals/cleats the other day and took them out ...

Quick training log tally this afternoon yielded these data since Jan 1, 2012: 43 outdoor training sessions; 1,501 miles; 97,513 feet of...

One of the big `draws' of cycling, for me, is how endless the learning process.  Each time I encounter a disappointment, a `mistake,...

Maybe it is a generational thing. Whenever I speak with a service provider on the phone or in a store they refer to me as `Daniel.'  F...

The other day I installed a new carbon fiber hard shell seat Bent Up Cycles on my Ti Aero. I replaced the seat that I severely modified in ...

Cycling Calendar - 2012 Every year I compulsively schedule cycling training and events as if I had no other life.  So, this calendar is `a...

The profound performance of so many athletes at Sebring this year is inspiring and exciting.  In conversation with one of the winners he t...

My patient and loving wife remarked the other day "You're really training hard!"  Thickheaded Scot that I am I responded: ...

This is a great resource for those of us wanting to get a sense of perspective regarding laboratory reports we get on blood tests.  My fru...

(Oct 2014) I wrote the blog post about the doctor with a god complex in May of 2012.  Since that time I've met many physicians who more...

These past six months have `informed' me of how erratic my training had to be.  I pretty much expected that but granted myself the luxur...

I just ran across a piece I wrote a few months before my RAW 2010 attempt.  Somehow my email address got out to the world of snake-oil merch...

I started getting serious about cycling around 1996, as a way to not get too unbalanced with my job.  Periodically I'd complete a trai...

I barely adhered to my intention of making this a `recovery' week. Last Sunday I completed what amounted to a 110 K time trial in Phoe...

Yesterday I joined a great group of local roadies driving to an invitational in Phoenix.  Sixty-five miles and just a tad over 500 feet of c...

Well, let's start with the ... Not so Bad news.  Sebring is out for me this February.   The logistics and cost just don't just...

A few days ago I was out for along ride in the lower elevations.  Rolling desert rocky terrain below the snow line, waaay out into the unp...

If you could be exceptional at either `intelligence' or `persistence' (not both), which would you prefer? Sounds like a question I...