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...

Yesterday was Deer Trail Road Race, in the one road town of Deer Trail. The course was interesting to me because it literally heads out to a cone where you make a 180 degree turn like one that would happen in an out and back TT, only this happens 4 times, out to the first cone, turn around, out to the second cone ( different location ) turn-around and repeat one more time for a total of 58 miles. The P/1/2 race had pretty good sized fields, maybe 70 riders? on a tight yellow line road, it was going to be about position and position it was about! Out in the plains, open range the winds were...

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.

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...

4.25 hours, 95 miles and one hell of a dogfight. From DIA to Deertrail and back, 2 sprint signs in Strasburg, Co and Deertrail, Co. 2 of the most remote towns I have ever wandered through, a few building, no stop lights and a bar or 2. 12 dudes, 50 degrees of sun a slight headwind and the grinding of gears. A 2 day bike hangover is left in the tracks, my head pounding, my legs twitching and my lower back aching. Not much of a pissing contest, but the hardest strongest ride I have pedaled on in quite sometime. So new friendships started, some old stories told, a bit rubber left on the road...

Tour of Gila 2007 - Cat 2 In late 2009 Anna and I moved to Colorado, new terrain, new races, new people, lots of new stuff. As I start to look towards 2010 and plan my schedule, mainly looking at the bigger races because as we bike racers know, the local stuff is more or less a gimme when it comes to planning, at least for me. So far the targeted stuff on my schedule is pretty huge, not only in size but excitement factor. Some races I always wanted to do, some I never heard of and some that just look plain rad. For starters, Valley of the Sun in February, flight from Denver are $190 bucks...

A I pumped up the tires and got the last few things together a few days ago to head out for ride,  the weather was balmy, 70 degrees and just perfect.  I was headed up to Ward, Colorado some 25 miles from my house for a total of about 50 miles and 3 hours of riding.  The beautiful enticed me to take the ride up to Ward,  I say up to ward because it sits 9,540 feet.  Ward is a small little, off-the-grid style town and very popular place for cyclists to take a stop as they climb into the mountains.  A sort of juxtaposition of lycra clad type a personalities and the off-the-grid lifestyle found...

Headed up to Nederland, Colorado to catch some fall colors and also do a little hiking up to Lost Lake. It is a short hike, took us a total of 2.5 hours with some goofing around up at the lake. It is more like a walk, but beautiful none-the-less. The air was very crisp and there were little pockets of snow around. Took the day off the bike and missed what looked like some fun racing in Frisco, Colorado. A bout with some allergies on Friday night kept me up to the wee-hours of the morning prompting a nice sleep in to try and catch up with what I had lost that night. So, groggy and all allergic...

First, got a new shirt that I screenprinted here at HOWDY. This one is pretty cool. I like the color contrast. Hit the roads and trails yesterday afternoon for a look at some of the Boulder Open Spaces/parks that exist within a few miles of my house. Found sounds fun off road stuff that is perfect for the cross bike. That smell was in the air, the smell of fall, burning leaves or somewhere a fireplace is a roost. That smell make me become nostalgic, thinking of times when life was easier and less complicated. I rolled around a good bit, got a little wet from an passing storm and just...

Fall is in the air, more ways than one. From the leaves changing, to me, well, literally falling a lot. As the leaves change, the air gets cool I am out there averaging about on fall a week. So to comemerate this fall I have started production of some HOWDY t-shirts. The one seen below or above is a prototype, colors might change a hair, but look for HOWDY stuff to hit the internet in the next few weeks, belt buckles, shirts, some stickers. Pretty quite this week in Boulder, I think everyone is at INTERBIKE in Vegas and getting ready to throw down HOWDY style at Cross Vegas. Fall...