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The Good Fight
Weather is my mood indicator. I had been getting a little bored with the wall to wall sunshine that characterised March. April has brought relief in the form of unsettled, cloudy, moody days. Uncertainty is sometimes comforting. Uncertainty also makes for good photos. I-70 Highway between Rifle CO and Palisade CO. The clouds were moving […]
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Life lines
The beckoning of spring has caught me by surprise. In winters past, both in England and Colorado, the onset of my favourite season has happened in a day. That fantastic day when you awake to birds singing, only to suddenly realise there are buds on the trees and the sun has real warmth that has […]
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The game plan
I can’t think of anything else at the moment other than the races I want to do this year and the places I want to go. After a LONG time of trawling all across the interwebs, I’ve concluded that there are too many races. Yea, terrible problem. So this list is not an exhaustive calendar […]
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The Steeps
While most in Colorado associate ‘steeps’ with snow, this years’ skiing for me can be written off as N/A. After much anticipation of backcountry exploring, the reality of rotten snow and daily reports of deaths and injuries in Avalanches across the state steered me firmly away from the high country. Unlike last year, when I […]
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NBD
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Food for freewheeling
The last three days have been sandwiches. I like sandwiches. The early sunrise that is beckoning spring has moved my internal dials towards an equally early rise, with the effect that riding in the mornings has actually been possible. The beginning of the week hailed optimistic thoughts of riding without the preface of layering clothes […]
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Prickled
Clothes were shoved into bags with great haste; somehow it seems that an evening flight enabled me to delay the packing of all things essential until the last minute. Alas, I was on the bus chugging to DIA at 6pm, wishing I had forethought buying a burrito before lift off. Denver was cold. The airport […]
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Seasonality
Finally sense has prevailed. It took a seriously large push of persuasion from mother nature who decided that below zero temperatures were appropriate for the weekend, to match the snow that’s been sitting for the last week or so. No more of this bull-headed “its not winter” pretence – I went skiing. Despite looking like […]
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Stud Race
Although I am steadfastly doing my best to deny it, February is here, and that means my first masochistic adventure of 2012 will be taking place in a couple weeks when I head down to Arizona and ride through cactus infested single-track for 24 hours with four other like minded team mates. With such a […]
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East
The sun isn’t gaining much height at the moment. Its warmth is in colour only. Straight roads allow plenty of time for contemplation. The mountains frame my mood – they are the distance. The lines smudge seamlessly into the horizon – that’s where we’re going Empty and wide.