As been my convention and as mileage is slowly being increased during the Month of March, I’m seeking out routes that will keep me occupied and interested – creative minds can bore easily with repetitious activities. If this bid for the Tour Divide becomes nothing but a slog of miles over the same routes for Continue reading…
It’s around 90 or so days before the Grand Départ of this little thing I’m doing – the same little thing I’m documenting on this site. I still don’t have a bicycle to ride the course.
Sunday: Rest! – 12 miles Monday: 14er Attempt, Quandary Tuesday: Rest! – 15 miles Wednesday: Ride to Redrocks, Hike/Run Mt. Morrison, via the South Ridge Route, ride back home – 52 miles Thursday: Rest! 5 miles Friday: Ride to Boulder, few hours at The Spot, bouldering Gym, ride home – 100 miles Saturday: 1 1/2 Continue reading…
“I’m getting concerned about the visibility issue.”, my much more careful, much more level-headed hiking partner stated clearly and with enough gusto to make it through the wind and snow. “Yes. I think we’re pretty close. The peak is at that rock.”, I point, “ten more minutes and we’ll re-evaluate the situation. How does that Continue reading…
Sunday’s ride started at 5:50 in the morning, the goal being to get up – and over Squaw Pass, a gamble to do in winter, as it peaks at over 11,000 feet.Then, down into Colorado Springs and take the bicycle route that follows I-70, using frontage roads, old HW-40 and the Scott Lancaster bike path. Continue reading…
Sunday: 70-something something mile mixed road/mountain bike trek here and there – 11hours Monday: 35 miles around Cherry Creek and back – 3 hours, started as a recovery ride, ended with me going as fast as I could, felt around 66% from the day before. Tuesday: 2 hours on the trainer Wednesday: 8 mile, leisurely Continue reading…
UPDATE 4/1/11 – Hey, I did it! – Between 3/5/11 and 3/31/11 I was able to log around 1331 miles. YEAH! The below fundraiser is going to go on until April 7th, 2011 – now you have an even better reason to donate, as I’ve held to my end of the bargain to ride so Continue reading…
Sunday: Rest! Monday: Rest! Tuesday: 3 hour ride to Boulder loaded with hiking pack, ~ 30-something miles 9 hour hike, traversing South Boulder Peak, Bear Peak and Green Mountain, 4 hour ride back to Denver w/pack ~ 30-something miles Wednesday: Rest! Thursday: Easy ride to Cherry Creek Reservoir and around, ~ 35 miles Friday: Two Continue reading…
It’s sincerely not against my character to take on major goals completely out of order, so when I admit to you that I signed myself up for a 2750 mile mountain bike race, without having ridden a mountain bike any appreciable distance since many years before I lost my delicate virginity, you will not find Continue reading…
Woke up today with little sleep, perhaps two hours. Unplanned sleep deprivation training. 5:00 am. Snooze for fifteen minutes then up and about. Planning on biking/hiking trip. Let’s go to Boulder, I thought and then hike around. Wonder if you can get from the small, Southern Peak, to the Small, Northern Peak? There must be Continue reading…
This week I did nothing that really fits into a report. Basically, I took the week off – I felt achy and tired and I’ve been killing it. Time for a break. I’m extremely excited at how well the first “month” of “training” went – I feel in good form and happy that there’s 5 Continue reading…
Sunday: Rode to Red Rocks and back. Looked like this: It has snowed the last couple of days, so my route consisted of bike paths that were: * well shoveled, * barely shoveled* not shoveled *at all*, where forward motion was very slow or, roads that were somewhat sketch and filled with snow, dirt and Continue reading…
I’ve been “training” for the Tour Divide Race for about a month now. I wasn’t really slouching in my physical condition, but the year started out slow with my knee injury, ending in very successful physical therapy and a wonderful summer spent in Colorado riding bikes and discovering the fun of doing all the walk Continue reading…
Wednesday: 2 hours on rollers. I managed to crack the frame on my Surly Steamroller again. Same place as before, when John was kind enough to weld it back together. The weld held for years of me abusing the frame. I have no money for a comparable frame, especially since I want to buy an Continue reading…
Friday: I think I did 2 hours on the trainer. I don’t think I even made it outside. At all. That day. Saturday: Rest! Because: Sunday: Snowshoed from sun up to sun down – 9 1/2 hours in total. We started at Echo Lake on the Mt. Evans Massif and hiked the Chicago Lakes trail. Continue reading…
Wed: Rest. Yeah, rest! Thur: Gym, weigh in @ 183lbs. Ran to the gym a full minute faster (20 min) than last time. Rowing for 5,000 meters – around 20…3? minutes? 5 sets of 20 seconds of pushups, then 30 seconds jump rope, no rest between sets. 5 sets of 20 seconds of Wall ball, Continue reading…
1/24/11: Rest1/25/11: I thought it’d be fun to see how fast I could go from REI, around Cherry Creek and back, time trial mode. My road bike is out of commission with a broken shifter and my touring bike is too slow to really make this any fun, so I just used my brakeless fixed Continue reading…
Did a nice 100+ mile bike ride, down the cherry creek bike path, West on E-470 trail to Deer Creek Canyon, up High Grade Road and to HW 73 through Evergreen and then took the turn to Morrison and back home via Jewel until it hits up the Platte River bike path and then home. Continue reading…
12/20/10 Weigh in @ 183 lbs Bike Ride @ moderate pace around Cherry Creek Res and back ~ 35 miles? (I forgot to check the computer) Should have been less moderate, but turned more moderate as it was slightly windy and I just *had* to catch up to some actual Cat 3-ish bike racers, who Continue reading…
“A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches – that is the right and privilege of any free American.” — Edward Continue reading…
Upon waking up at 5:30 am, I turned back over to, perhaps, wake up at a more agreeable time. Waking up was becoming an increasingly larger problem in my life. My mornings slipped to afternoon and then, later afternoon, until I was by last Tuesday, getting up nearly at 5:00 pm. A vampire.
Summer totally flew by for me, but I was able to take a few little trips out and about to check out the, “backyard”. I’m moving soon, so it seemed like a good idea to see what’s out there. Here’s a small 4-day trip to Leadville and back, with a little side-step hiking. First, here’s Continue reading…
Hello Everyone! A short note that I’m back home in Denver, CO but will flesh out some entries from entering Paris to, well now – but a quick note that the airline LOST MY LUGGAGE. AGAIN. Once again, the bike came, the bags didn’t, I’m left with the clothes on my back. Sigh. This time, Continue reading…
The funniest thing started happening to me yesterday. Amidst my small sorrow that the ride I was taking was one of my last of this tour and the pain of my spent legs, pedaling up small hills at a meager 9 km/hr for hours, people started to cheer for me. Small hills would be accented Continue reading…
RIP iPod. If an iPod cruds out within a year, free replacement, no? We’ll see. Sigh. I didn’t *really* think of putting music on it, but 25 minutes before catching the flight, I put a few theme albums on for fun. Maybe 10 in all. And I’ve listened to them almost continuously, to the point Continue reading…