Adventures in the Flint Hills: 2022 Unbound Gravel
Go for it. That’s been one of the mottos this year I’ve tried to live by. Entering the Unbound Gravel lottery, getting selected and committing to training for it was the big early season goal of 2022. It was worth it. The plan was to…
Testing the limits in the Northwoods: The 2022 Bear 100 (kilometers):
Back in December, I asked for ideas for rides to tackle in 2022 on Instagram. One of the suggestions was The Bear 100 up in Laona. Back then, I took a cursory look at it and signed right up for the 73 mile of it….
Getting outside of the comfort zone
Sometime last year, I made the decision to push the comfort zone. Doing as many cyclocross races as possible, riding longer rides and starting to dedicate myself to strength training. This past Saturday, I pushed way beyond my comfort zone, not so much on the…
A Thriller in Michigan: 2022 Barry-Roubaix
Commitment. Everyone says they are committed, but when faced with terrible weather conditions and an easy excuse (travel) to not take the start line, how committed are you really? All last week I was glued to the forecast in Hastings for the 13th annual Barry-Roubaix It could…
Everybody Hurts: The 2022 Tour of Sufferlandria
What a week. It was both the most challenging week on the bike since I started on my cycling journey back in 2013 when I died after five miles. Maybe it was the lack of good training in the lead up? Maybe it was my…
#Fayetteville2022: UCI Cyclocross World Championships
My motto for World Cups has been “Always go to the World Cups. You never know when they will stop coming over to the States.” The same can be said when the world championships come to the U.S. And it did not disappoint. It’s taken…
Data analysis of illness
For the better part of two weeks, I’ve experienced all kinds of illness. Woke up on Tuesday, December 28th with a headache, fever and general icky feeling. Since I had spent Christmas Day among 80,000 others at Lambeau Field, and in a car with three…
At the crossroads
I’ve always taken the approach of keeping my options open and letting things present themselves to make the logical decision any given time. It generally has served me well over the many months, years and now decades of adult life. But lately I’ve been thinking…
2022 Training Week 1: Acclimation
Well, the first week of training is in the books, and it went as well as it as it could be. Monday was my first personal training session with Paul at Simple Endurance Coaching. We did all sorts of things that I don’t remember what…
Writers block
Ever have a bunch of ideas and topics to write about but can’t put the thoughts together coherently? For someone who’s head is in the clouds a lot of the time and whose mind is always moving a million miles per hour, this is a…
