Hello Friends

It's been a while I know, and for that I'm sorry. It feels like life has been a circle of daily events: get kids ready for school, get them off to school, go to work, come home, help with homework, get kids ready for bed, go to bed. Hopefully getting a workout in there. It hasn't felt like I was going anywhere and all my energy has been going into just trying to keep up.

This endless circle of events has made it difficult to write anything interesting, not that my previous posts were all that interesting. I'm going to try and turn that around by posting more, not necessarily by making them more interesting. Well, maybe it'll be interesting to some of you.

Talk to you soon.

"Health is the greatest of gifts, contentedness the best riches"

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In the primary, it's taking off!

Fun Stuff I Found this Weekend

My wife says "I've heard you say all those things"


This one is just amazing. Specatcular video.

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Midseason Cold

We're in the meat of the cyclocross season and I'm sick. It's an 'off the course' skill to avoid getting sick during fall racing. It gets really challenging with kids. During CX season you just have to remember, like anything during a cyclocross race, something is going to go wrong. There's not such thing as a perfect race/season, it's how you recover and push forward that makes the difference.

Shortly after the Halloween race, the next day to be specific, I came down with a pretty gnarly cold. I've been off the bike, miserable, for the last 8 days. I think I'm mostly over the cold so just this morning I jumped on the trainer for a 30 min ride to see how the body would react. So far so good, no violent relapse. I feel ready to start working out but I'm willing to give it a few extra days to make sure, so I don't lose more time due to a relapse or other complication.

Big Ring Parker CX in on tap this Saturday. It's the second team race this year and it's not in the 'Boulder Bubble'. It's a great course and I'm looking forward to racing! See you there.

Feel the Burn!

Halloween cyclocross! I tried to take things up a level since I missed last year. I had a fun race, lots of wild comments from the fans and racers. My results weren't spectacular but I gave it my all and pushed through the mud and pain.

Sadly the family cold appears to have caught up to me and I feel really bad today. Maybe that explains the results? I thinks so. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Summer's Over

I have mixed feelings about it. Could be good for CX. Not so good for fun training rides; back to the pain cave.

Cyclocross 2011 mid season thoughts

Sorry for the lack of updates this Cross season. As you know I upgraded to a new faster category last season, Cat 3. Moving out of the beginner pack was fun because I got to tell stories about how well I was doing. This season things have been a little harder, ok maybe a lot harder. Everyone is fast and at a much more competitive level.

Everything during the race is heavily competed, (the start, the flats, the straights and the corners, barriers) your weaknesses show up. At first I was a little concerned because I didn't have the strength to push by everyone. But then again, during the race I'm racing in larger groups of riders and all of us are about the same level and no one has the strength to just ride away. In the end I'm always amazed at how many people finish right around me. If I could just go 1 minute faster I move up 10 - 15 places.

In many ways the races have been a lot of fun. Tactics start to play an important roll. I go back and forth with a lot of racers and we all know who's having a strong day, and you can't have a strong race every time. I really feel like I've learned a lot about my self and my racing capabilities this year and particularly this season. It's just not always an exciting story to tell.

Little Piece of Heaven