Month: July 2011
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Anything but Eighth
Tunnel vision. The constant focus is burning my eyeballs as fleeting images of the trail flash past. The corners continue to hit me, one after another. Barely time to breathe, let alone drink or eat or look around. I know the mountains beyond the hill I’m currently descending are beautiful. I know the Aspen glades […]
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Nutrition
I had a terrible weekend of bike riding last weekend. My legs hurt, my back ached, my stomach grumbled, revolted and stopped functioning all together. I didn’t sleep enough, drink enough or eat enough. The result, expectedly, was that my planned 100 mile race turned into a slow painful 32 mile grind, before the motivation […]
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Cool kids in Boulder ride bikes
The kid flies through the air. His bike, many years too big for him, looks ungainly and out of control. His small build seems no match for the gargantuan weight of the steel hulk beneath him. But with finesse worth more than his 12 years, he guides the bicycle to the backside of the jump, […]
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Traction
I’ve just been reading the blog of mountain bike legend (legend is easy to use in the small world of mountain biking; such a young and small sport can only accommodate so many personalities, that people know exactly when to use the term) and Ergon Athlete Dave Weins. He was talking of Technology, the Interwebs, […]
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Getting a little bit too high
America’s victory over the English (celebrated by Independence Day this weekend) actually had some advantages for me, being a Brit living in the US. The biggest one is the ability to take a 5 day weekend from work and not be missed. The second is that all my American friends are also up for adventuring. […]