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Suckers. You’re reading this because you clicked on the link on my Facebook status update, didn’t you?!? Don’t deny it – I can track you. $100 says this blog entry gets the most hits of any all year long.

I’m not gonna lie… I love Facebook. Where else can you procrastinate at work by laughing at how the jerk you hated in high school has gained 50 lbs and still works at Blockbuster? Or figure out what your 276 “best friends” are doing right now by clicking on a single tab.

My recent obsession, as I prepared for … Continue Reading

You know the feeling.

Monday morning, bright and early…roll out of bed, start the coffee, jump in the shower, get to work, and all you want to do is look at pictures of the weekend, scan the weather forecast for the next few days, plan the week’s training, clean and tune the bike, send fu… Continue Reading

I’ve been on a variety of cycling-related trips (or I’ve turned non-cycling trips into cycling trips out of sheer desperation) lately. I’ve been to a variety of places, over vastly different terrain, and yet there is a common denominator – someone is always “that girl.” (To protect the innocent, and to make this appropriate for our women’s club, I will refer to “that girl” even when I really mean “that guy” – and I ALWAYS mean “that guy”).

Who is “that girl” you may ask? “That girl” is the one who … Continue Reading

Suck it up. I tell myself that on a weekly– er– daily basis in the winter. Finding the motivation to ride when it’s icing, snowing, sleeting, or just damn cold is one of my biggest struggles. Well today I decided that suck it up just isn’t cutting it. So from now on, I’m pretending to like riding in the winter. And here’s why:

• Balancing a hot cup of coffee (preferably Velocity of course) in my waterbottle cage.
• Telling myself I’m better … Continue Reading
  

On several of the million occasions I’ve hobbled into work or school after a long ride, hard crash, or other bike-related exhaustion or soreness, I’ve been asked “you’re crazy, how can you possibly keep doing that day after day?” I’m sure you’ve all had similar experiences — after a freezing ride when you’re red-faced for the rest of the weekend, after a 14 hour drive home from Minnesota, after getting up at 4 am just to squeeze a short ride in on the trainer in the midst of a crazy day…

Why do we … Continue Reading