Training

Yesterday I spent 3 hours on the indoor trainer.  The outside weather was ideal: 70's, sunny, little wind, very little traffic.  So why ...

A while ago a wonderful bicycle shop entrepreneur and I had a conversation about `happiness.'  She's become happier of late because ...

I know and can name at least 4 or 5 people who could say this better than me.  The other day a new recumbent rider with a fairly distingui...

I've been putting in more miles on the bike lately and, despite having great, grippy tires I've had 2 flats in the last two training...

I recently participated in a `race / ride' called the Skull Valley Loop Challenge. It's a 52 mile, 4800 feet of climbing loop from P...

As I age (and age and age) I have a new ally in my many shortcomings: rationalization . " I'd do better but I'm an `older at...

Having crewed for the 500 this year the thought, of course, came to me as to whether or not I would consider entering the Hoodoo 500 for 201...

I just finished crewing for a a friend in his solo effort to complete a 516 mile, 40,000 feet of climbing race (Hoodoo 500 ) in 48 hours.  H...

July 31, 2012 : Saturday will see me riding from Prescott to Congress and back on the CA2. This will be the first real use of the bike thr...

Training Route in Prescott Mountains Coming north near Mile Post 304 a faded blue '90's American car was rounding a corner and cli...

Not too many years ago I was the clinical director of a psychiatric hospital.  As this was a `new' psychiatric hospital, founded by a re...

Several years ago I did Lon Haldeman and Susan Notarangelo's Mountain Week PAC Tour.  It was a great experience and was really well don...

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...