Category: Cycling
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Race and Vacation: Tahoe and Crater Lake
The Race Remember that time I nearly showed up in Tahoe for a race I didn’t sign up for? That just happened. Except luckily the race doesn’t sell out and I was able to register the night before. Had the race sold out, this would have been a double whammy as I was fortunate enough to […]
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Warmshowers
A few years back, I found and signed up for a site called Warmshowers. It’s basically couch-surfing for cyclists. I don’t know how long I’ve been registered as “available for guests,” (you can toggle this on and off) but two weeks ago I got my first contact from Zach. He and his buddy, Max, were […]
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The Leadville Diet
I’m 6’2. My body likes to be right around 172lbs. At my heaviest, I was in the mid-180s. I was super soft, but that was like a decade ago and it’s okay. For two years now, I’ve set a goal of getting to 162 before Leadville. The number was somewhat arbitrary, but it turns out […]
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Race: Six Hours of Mt. Hood
The first big race of the year and my first time doing this classic. I chose to solo, which meant as many 6.5mi / 1000ft ascent laps I could get in before 6:30 was up. The course was fairly brutal in terms of a “marathoner.” As is typical of Oregon (at least in my neck […]
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With that, it’s over
The season. Bike racing season. OVER. It was a long one and quite frankly, it lasted too long. First race March 5, last race 8.5 months later, roughly 47 races in-between with a few taking the better part of entire days. After a big diet and effort push to Leadville, my interest and energy waned heading […]
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Leadville, Leadville, Leadville!
It happened and I survived to tell the tale. Here it is. About Leadville Leadville was a silver mining town in the 19th century. At its height, there were 40,000 residents. The silver ran out, but some dude discovered molybdenum, a mouthful of a metal used in steel hardening. That has propped the town up numerous […]