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  • Wind

    Growing up in Northern Kansas I was used to riding in the wind. I rode in the wind all the time (around here it is that or don’t ride much of the year). However, I never litterally had the bike get blown out from underneath me…. until today. I woke up to a cold but…

  • The real training begins

    Tomorrow I line up on the starting line of a bike race for the first time in about 35 years. I had to double check my own math on that several times because it doesn’t seem possible but yeah, I was 20 years old the last time I entered a bike race. Tomorrow’s race is…

  • Training for an endurance cycling event in the middle of winter in New Hampshire has of course been a challenge. Between the cold and the higher than average amount of snow the majority of my training has been indoors with the bike mounted on a trainer. Following a virtual route with computer generated graphics does…

  • Winning the lottery

    Back in November I got some news. I won the lottery! No, I didn’t win any money, in fact winning this lottery costs me money. Let me back up first a bit for some context… In the last couple of years I had gotten into running however a few months before a foot injury had…