After 7 months in Boulder I finally did my first local weekday training ride, FruitLoops. Philly had the Tuesday Drives ride and Thursday Greentree or Great Valley which I spent a fair share of time on the front, near the front or off the front of those rides and sometimes near the back, not the back of the back but near the back. Usually though I was in the mix but since i have been in Boulder I have been pretty prominent at the back, sometimes at the back of the back. See the back of the back is different from the back, the back of the back is the place where it is almost like you are not...

Last summer I wrote about a mystery and acute pain in my shoulder, neck and right arm with slight paralysis, tingling and numbing in both my right arm and some in my legs. I woke up one Monday morning with most of the symptoms above in varying degrees. I thought it was just something like a bad night of sleep, a stiff neck, riding my bike too much, etc. By the end of the Monday I was in more pain and a my right arm was a little more weak. As the week progressed this all got worse, with pain ranging on a perceived pain scale of close to 10, the worst pain I have ever had. I went to my primary...

Circa 87′-88′, Morristown, New Jersey, I was at the Psycho Skates skateboard Demo near the shop located downtown. My friend Mark was on the Psycho Skates team and they were putting on a demo with Monty Nolder and few other pros that were rolling through town. Basically it was a jump ramp demo, a runway with a jump ramp at the end that all the dudes in the demo were launching off of. It was cool, I think might have been the first time I saw pros skating. My friend Mark did a backside 360 Judo Air, that was rad. After the demo we rolled around, or should I say speed around Morristown...

Lately I have been digging this serbian musician named Boris Kovac, it comes on my ipod and thump, thump we go. Boris Kovac becomes a theme song for my ride – highs and lows, slow and fast, boom, thump boom. Dlowe turned me on, not typically what one thinks of when out doing long intervals or riding solo, but to me the long, lyric-less music calms and settles me as I ride along the rolling terrain, mountains looming and home miles away. It started as something that would come on the ipod randomly and I would skip over, time and time again, then I didn’t skip it and I liked...

I am in the middle standing straight up Yesterday was my first group “race” style ride that I have participated on in quite sometime, heck, it was the first time I sat in a group bigger than 6 since July. Boulder’s big weekend worlds style ride is called the Gateway Ride. It meets and starts at the Gateway Funpark in North Boulder, Gateway Funpark might be fun, has some go-karts, mini golf, etc, but the real fun is on Saturday morning at 10:00 when a huge group (100+ yesterday) meets and rides for a few hours. The Gateway Ride has been known to be sort of the renegade,...

Headed out into some white stuff today for some much needed cyclocross bike time. Exploring the trails in and around my homestead in Boulder is heaven, there are just so many options. I headed in a new direction that lead me onto some great single and double track. Nice and slipper and icy, like I like it. The climbing was long and grinding and the views were great. Even stumbled on a few friends that gave me a 100 lb stare. A nice day on the bike, not on the trainer and into some cold winter air.

loudQUITEloud – A Movie about The Pixies Although the weather was sunny and relatively warm for January in Boulder, Colorado I still wound up on the trainer, work + life gets in the way. I fired up the trainer for 6 x 6 minute LT based efforts, painful and just long enough to really get under my skin. So, I hit up HULU.COM for something new to entertain me in my efforts. It brought me to loudQUITEloud: a film about The Pixies. I dig The Pixies, always have. Hanging out at Intervale School skateboarding with the boom box blasting The Pixies was constant and consistent for one whole...

4 days ago DLowe rolled into town, a brisk sunny morning greeted by a face and friend of old. In typical fashion, a beer was tossed back before a cold ride on a bike fit for someone else. We headed out for a nice rolling ride, it could have been Philly, it didn’t matter, it felt like old hat. Many of rides started and finished in the same way, in this location, to me it felt like the same. That is good, it means that friendships stick, it is liking riding a bike, it never goes away. I like that, I don’t like to forget, when I leave my house in Boulder and set out on that lonely...

That used to me grabbing my skateboard and my dirty self and skateboarding to the wee hours of the morning. Now it means to me hitting the trails with my skate skis and getting one hell of a workout. From Powell & Peralta to Fischer Carbon RCS Skate Skis, quite the contrast. I am in love with xc skiing especially skate skiing. It is fun to watch an Universal has some World Cup coverage this year. I am a terrible skier, I can muscle it up the hills and get it going on the flats, hits the downhills and it can get ugly real quick. Boulder has some great resources, when it snows Boulder...

The buzz about in the Boulder area ( at least in my house right now) is about the Morgul Bismark stage race coming over Memorial Day Weekend. http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_14212916 I remember getting stoked on the Red ZInger and Coors Classic back in the day as a youngster… Looks like I just added another race to my schedule.