Category: Bikes

The Last Best Ride

With my August race in Colorado having slipped off my calendar, I looked for one more race to do this year. It’s already been a great year of riding with Special Blend Gravel Camp being the perfect preparation for the Gorge Gravel Grinder, and then also Cranbrook Gravel Grind. I was hungry for just one […]

The head games of racing

Racing is pure madness. Madness, I tell you!! You sign up for a race months out with great excitement and ambition. In the days leading up to the race, the doubts start surface, and by the morning of the race, you are a wreck. At least I am. I have done a few races now, […]

Sometimes the win looks a little different

Racing bikes is hard: physically, mentally, emotionally. But damn, it’s fun. And every race, teaches you something. Every single race. A couple of weeks ago I headed back down to Dufur, Oregon to race the Gorge Gravel Grind. I’d been there two weeks earlier to attend Serena Gordon’s Special Blend Gravel Camp. It was nice […]

Reflections

This time of year is always such a delightful wind down. While I must confess that I’ve hardly been shoulder to the wheel these last few months with work being quiet, and training only just restarting, I still love the abyss of the week between Christmas and New Year. I get reflective for a few […]

Helping one another

Pedaling through the Squamish Valley, I often see a Squamish Nation pickup truck that says Public Safety on the door. I was stopped on the bridge that crosses the river past the Upper Squamish Valley, taking pictures, when I saw it again today. The bridge is narrow so I scuttled off it so as not […]

The stages of racing

The pre-race crazy stage I’m less than two weeks out from racing Moab Rocks for the second – and final – time. The current conversation in my head goes something like this. How can I work so hard and still be so shit – maybe I didn’t work hard enough – ugh – I should […]