Adventures on a Bike
Blog URL http://www.adventuresonabike.com
Located San Diego, California USA
Tags cycling, adventure, racing, training, bike, monster climbs, tour de france
These are my adventures on a bike as I train for my first racing season and contemplate the Leadville 100.
Latest Blog Posts
- At the Precipice – Riding Sonora Pass on Oct 22, 2009 in Uncategorized Leadville 100 Monster Climbs
The air is chilly at 9,628 feet atop Sonora Pass in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. I’d spent the last hour and a half climbing ever so slowly to the pass and now I was considering the unthinkable – descending the other side. “This has...
- My First Cyclocross Race on Sep 29, 2009 in Uncategorized Cyclocross Racing
Cyclocross is cool because the race course has such varied terrain – grass, pavement, sometimes mud and usually a little sand. This was not the case at yesterday’s race. The second race in the SoCalCross Prestige Series was held at a motorcross...
- How I became a Cyclocross Racer on Sep 24, 2009 in Uncategorized Cyclocross Gear Racing
I couldn’t stop staring at the cover of Velonews. The February 2009 edition had just been tossed in front of my while I sat munching a sandwich in my kitchen. The cover depicted a wet, slimy, muddy and yet intensely focused cyclist – I was comple...
- Join the fight agains MS on Sep 22, 2009 in Uncategorized Charity Rides MS Bike Tour
For the third year in a row, I’ll be riding the 150-mile MS Bike Tour next month to raise money in the fight against multiple sclerosis, and do you know why? I ride for my friend Blake’s dad who has struggled with this debilitating disease for t...
- Three times the screw on Sep 4, 2009 in Uncategorized Community Gear Leadville 100 Mountain Biking
Thirty-six hours before I was to board my flight to Colorado to race the Leadville 100 I was riding peacefully in my backyard canyon, trying to keep my legs loose. That’s when I felt a terrible “ker-chunck!” from somewhere and felt my bike sag...
- So, what’s next? on Sep 1, 2009 in Uncategorized Leadville 100 Life Mountain Biking
Standing in front of the Leadville Courthouse at 5:54pm on August 15th, it occurred to me that for the first time in a long while, I had nothing to do. I did need a shower pretty badly, but besides that, my schedule was completely empty. Wow, what...
- You’re going to crash! on Aug 28, 2009 in Uncategorized Life Mountain Biking
If you ride a mountain bike with any regularity, you already know what this is about. If not, you may be surprised to learn that you are going to crash if you ride a mountain bike, so just expect it. Sometimes crashing happens in predictable ways.
