Tag: colorado
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Grand Junction Offroad
This is a very belated write up on the Grand Junction Offroad race that took place at the end of August. It’s taken me a while to get around to putting pen to paper since the last three weeks have been chaotic! I’ve been settling into life as a normal person, rather than pretending to […]
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A long weekend in the Eagle valley.
Christa comes from a small town in Colorado called Edwards. Her family, which revolves entirely around ski racing, were sucked into the Vail valley when her parents were young, and they never left. Having found their spot on a hill overlooking the White River national forest and the New York Mountains, their home is a […]
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Back in the Game
I’ve really missed competitive Mountain Biking: I haven’t done enough of it this year. My return to Colorado set the stage for a return to the wonders of XC racing, and I was really happy to race in Winter Park this last weekend. I started my Mountain Bike career in the Grand Valley, at the […]
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The Boulder Update
It’s been a whirlwind landing back in Boulder after nine months away. Coming into Denver via Iceland was a breeze, and I’m going to recommend IcelandAir to anyone who will listen from now on. My bikes came out of the airport machinery looking a little mangled, but a quick check over reassured me they were […]
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12 months in 12 photos
January: Longs peak from the top of Devils Gulch Road, Estes Park CO February: Top step, 24 Hours of Old Pueblo in Oracle Arizona. March: Looking at Utah. 18 road trail system in Fruita, Colorado April: The Whiskey 50 introduction, Prescott Arizona May: Bryan Alders and Blake Harlan indulging in Durango Singletrack. The ranch trails, Durango […]
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Finnigans
I grew up living under the shadow of a ‘Mountain’. Not a big mountain by any stretch, but when young imaginations are at work, proximity trumps magnitude every time. Hangman Hill hangs over the quiet cove of Combe Martin; its hard to go a couple of minutes without looking up and seeing the top. Finnigans […]
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Settle
Settle: The word sometimes comes with negative connotations, especially in the competitive circles I associate with, but settling isn’t always a bad thing. Settling can be good. Settling is happening all over the Rockies at the moment; leaves are falling in more of a stampede than a flutter. The change of colours happened so fast […]
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Getting away from it (and closer, too)
No agenda or destination was needed. We barely even had a plan at 2pm on Friday afternoon. Just an idea of what we wanted to happen and the desire to see if through. The desire to be away from everything. CTL+ALT+DEL for a weekend. Training wasn’t going to get in the way. Work wasn’t going […]
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12 hours of uphill
I shift into the large chainring. I’m not looking up; not looking at the trail ahead or the terrain to come. I’m simply staring bleary eyed at where my bars join my stem. Its a struggle to lift my head enough to see past my front wheel, but I know what’s coming. I’ve been here […]