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A HARDMAN IS GOOD TO FIND
HE LOOKS LIKE A FAMOUS JEW who roamed around 2000 years ago. But, he’s a heartless bike racer. And, an even more evil bike event promoter. The HARDMAN Invitational is a horrible bike ride/race. It’s always in an infernal month, it mixes road and gravel and lots of plain old dirt. But, it’s in sunny..
SWAMI’S, I C WHAT YOU MEAN
75 RIDERS SHOWED UP FOR THE SWAMI’S RIDE, on a foggy August morning at 6:30. They left in waves: A group, B group, C group. Self-selected or self-inflicted, A fastest. All ride the same route. This means, depending on the time of year or phase of our training you have 3 options. Should you get..
AND HELMETS OFF TO ALL THE DADS
WHEN YOUR NEPHEW’S KID GIVES YOU KUDOS on Strava you know _____________. Don’t say it. Don’t even think how ancient… Just relish how cool it is that a middle schooler is out riding and posting. He’s pumped for the middle and high school MTB season which starts next month in UT. Actually, that makes two..
IN ANOTHER’S BIBS
READING RIDE TITLES IS SO ENTERTAINING, it’s like the proverbial riding in another man’s bibs… … Austin pointing out that this morning’s ride was so easy he could do it on his full-suspension mountain bike… … my brother from another mother concurs with a smiley face and grade of “more tolerable” … … Brett, while..
YOU, WHO ARE ON THE ROAD
MUST KNOW THE CODE: It’s a social ride… I like you, and I like hammering the snot out of you even more. It’s a no-drop ride… Don’t get dropped, or you won’t be on the ride. I’m worn out… This is a glimpse into your near future. It’s a super hard ride… It’s not really..
CAMEL OR THOROUGHBRED?
It’s so tempting to get everyone’s buy-in on your next kit/t-shirt/event… etc. But you know what they say: Committees design camels, Leaders design thoroughbreds. Be brave. Have faith in yourself. Polarizing is memorable… don’t do it for polarizing’s sake, do it for you and the people you lead. Then bring it to life.
LoToJa TRAINING RIDE #9 – END OF THE ROAD AKA BETTY CROCKER TIME
DID YOU KNOW A 20 OZ BOTTLE OF DR. PEPPER CONTAINS 250 DELICIOUS, REFRESHING CALORIES? After 6 hours on the two-wheeler the cupboard was empty – 6 waffles gone, 6 bottles of GQ6 drained. The Shell at Crown Valley and Niguel is a trusty dealer of sugar and fat. I cracked open the bottle and..
SOMETIMES THE BEST RIDE
SOMETIMES THE BEST RIDE is no ride at all. It’s just thinking about the next ride. Charting the route. Packing the food. Prepping the bottles. Checking the bike over. Setting out the favorite jersey and bibs. Just day dreaming all day on Friday about how great Saturday is going to be. Meeting up with the..
THE HORTON COLLECTION
Brett is in town and dropped by the office. Aside from catching up on life, we spent a few hours scouring 3500 of his amazing pictures from The Horton Collection – there are hundreds of thousands in the collection. The pictures themselves are revealing of different times. Some are post WWII, with cyclists racing through still..
DON’T EVER TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER
IT’S EARLY, AND I WANT TO SLEEP BUT I GET UP TO LIFT THE WEIGHTS and my body says no. No buddy, don’t do it. We’re still sleeping. You’re feeling sleepy. Skip today, for tomorrow we lift. And so starts the battle. I stumble downstairs. Grab the few tools I have. Do some jumping jacks...
DO YOU MIND IF I SLEEP WITH YOUR WIFE?
Can I ride your bike? feels just like, can I sleep with your wife? I can relate to you not relating, but can you relate to my answer? Can you get a sense of what your asking me man? Try and understand. This bike didn’t just show up one day. I scoured the interwebs, drooled..
