Wow, how time flys. Haven't published a blog in awhile.....so what's been up?
Life! That's what.
Rylan finished up his second season of soccer a couple weeks back. He really flourished this last year. One because a year older, two he had a really good coach who did a great job of developing and teaching the kids.
Annelise might be right at that edge of being old enough to play next year...we'll see.
Both love to ride their bikes though....any trips we take into to town, have to include a trip in into Victory Velo..where as I shop or shoot the breeze, they do laps on the new bikes around the store....and way to fast into the corners. Only one crash so far...glad Dan and Dawn are so understanding. Guess with three boys, that comes easy.
Amanda has been active and found a very good/new Yoga studio in Auburn. We've switched up my schedule to allow her to go to two classes during the week, and I pull my partner parent duties by getting the kids ready and to school on those days. It works pretty well.
Riding front, I went to Creampuff and had a pretty good ride. The course was amazing as was the support. Had a nice OTB that had my life flash before my eyes but resulted in no injuries. Can't wait to go back next year and i think may have Sean Allen convinced to go.
Talking about next year, I'll be turning 40. I'd like to do something special and have been knocking around a few bike adventure ideas. One has me going with Sean to the CTR...but just not sure I have it in me to train to that level. The other idea is making two trips toward the East for a couple 100 milers. I actually like this idea alot...and it motivates me a bit.
Rode with Sean last weekend above Foresthill....it was wet, muddy, cold, and just South of being Epic. That's the first border suffer ride I've done in a while, and I liked it.
My weight is down right at 180, even after Turkey day.... been running a bit, even did a duathalon...boy that hurt more after than during.
Bikes....been selling off some stuff, since I have some nice stuff just sitting in the garage. My Sycip Diesel will be shipped on Monday to Sycip for a sandblast and Paint before being sent back East to a new owner. thin the herd for a new FS come spring.
That's enough rambling for now....kids are stirring and I need some coffee.
I'll try to publish more....that's a comment to myself.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
10 lbs down and about 6 or so to go.
Yes, that's right, that's a total of 16 lbs. I got fat from about late September until, well now. It's been nice and the body definitely needed the rest. Feeling very healthy physically. At least when I'm not on the bike. The roll on my gut is finally receding with regular riding, especially with Boggs a couple weeks ago, and now back to back to back hard weekend rides.
Guess I should forget mentioning the Master Cleanse lemonade diet, that too has helped nicely in the weightloss department. Not doing that again for a year though, ouch.
Today is Easter, taking the kids to my parents for an egg hunt and an early dinner. I might spin tonight for an hour to wind down the weekend...and then on to the commute week
I'm part of a Bicycle User Group for my employer and I'm coordinating a bike tune up event to get people out there riding for bike to work month. Maybe if just one or two people catch the bike bug, it'll at least be 1 or 2 more full time bikers. Bike to work month does usually pull in about 200 riders for our employer overall, they just seem to sometimes lose their way after May ends.
Now it's decision time too. Do I race on one of the Victory Velo 24hr Coolest teams or do I do the 8 hour solo category. I'm leaning 8 hour, I've enjoyed the endurance riding the last couple weeks....so.
later...
Guess I should forget mentioning the Master Cleanse lemonade diet, that too has helped nicely in the weightloss department. Not doing that again for a year though, ouch.
Today is Easter, taking the kids to my parents for an egg hunt and an early dinner. I might spin tonight for an hour to wind down the weekend...and then on to the commute week
I'm part of a Bicycle User Group for my employer and I'm coordinating a bike tune up event to get people out there riding for bike to work month. Maybe if just one or two people catch the bike bug, it'll at least be 1 or 2 more full time bikers. Bike to work month does usually pull in about 200 riders for our employer overall, they just seem to sometimes lose their way after May ends.
Now it's decision time too. Do I race on one of the Victory Velo 24hr Coolest teams or do I do the 8 hour solo category. I'm leaning 8 hour, I've enjoyed the endurance riding the last couple weeks....so.
later...
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Double digits....
After a couple weeks of 7 hours and 9 hour training weeks, I managed to hit 11 hours for the last week. Oh my, a milestone! Another a week like that, and you might be able to call it something known as "base." ;o)
I wanted something different from two other spinerval favorites No Mercy and Sufferrama....and wanted something for solid, long tempo intervals and I think I found it. I went to a local LBS and they had spinerval dvd's on sale. I was attracted immediately to Tough Love... Tough Love is really what my body is in need of right now to continue with the weight shedding I've begun.
Tough Love is a 3 hour dvd packed full of 10 minute comb intervals and even a 30 minute interval. Solid stuff for base...and who doesn't love coach Troy.
A lil tough love will be on tap later today....will I make it to double digit hours again....stay tuned.
Also was perusing the disaster of last year race's and related results starting with OP. Quite ugly indeed...and here we are one week away from OP, and there's part of me envious of those ready to race for 24hrs, but there's the other part of me, that knows deep in the back of my mind I don't have what it takes to race like that anymore, well at least for that duration. You can bet I'll be following it though and seeing how folks are doing and how the weather is. Dry, warm, and fast I hope!
I wanted something different from two other spinerval favorites No Mercy and Sufferrama....and wanted something for solid, long tempo intervals and I think I found it. I went to a local LBS and they had spinerval dvd's on sale. I was attracted immediately to Tough Love... Tough Love is really what my body is in need of right now to continue with the weight shedding I've begun.
Tough Love is a 3 hour dvd packed full of 10 minute comb intervals and even a 30 minute interval. Solid stuff for base...and who doesn't love coach Troy.
A lil tough love will be on tap later today....will I make it to double digit hours again....stay tuned.
Also was perusing the disaster of last year race's and related results starting with OP. Quite ugly indeed...and here we are one week away from OP, and there's part of me envious of those ready to race for 24hrs, but there's the other part of me, that knows deep in the back of my mind I don't have what it takes to race like that anymore, well at least for that duration. You can bet I'll be following it though and seeing how folks are doing and how the weather is. Dry, warm, and fast I hope!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sponsors...Appreciation, Integrity, Accountability
Strange title for a blog post sure....
But over the last year... I've been perusing websites, blogs, etc....and that's just something I've seen really vary (the very good and the very bad), at least as it comes to cycling and sponsorships etc.
I've seen the dedicated like FuzzyJohn, the extreme and funny, like the TeamDicky website. Rich is good at putting himself at the center of a joke, but does a great job of getting his new sponsors names out there, constantly in fact, but his "website" isn't about this post.
It's in fact another more specifically, and it will go unnamed. But I've seen it here and there by others as well but not nearly as a common theme. I'm guessing there's more than meets the eye, but really, consider you're getting crap for free and put a sock in it. It just amazes me how a company can give someone product(s), travel money, race support. and that person can turn on them the first time the small company says, sorry we can't do any more for you. Especially when the person hasn't exactly been knocking down the podium either. I mean really have some integrity, not to mention, realize the fact the bike industry is a no margin venture and the economy has stunk it up for the last 18 months.
Sorry for a semi rant, but this has been gnawing at me for most of the last year and I read another passive aggressive post by the same person and I thought REALLY still?
Sooner or later stuff like that seems to catch up to people and we can only treat others how we ourselves want to be treated. I sleep well at night, but I wonder if those people in question do.
On a separate note, if you haven't visited Global Biorhytm's website, please do. I've enjoyed the regular posts by Dez, Jenn, Dawn, and Sean. Dez mostly, love reading his training misadventures. The latest on a big loop into the Sierra's should only be done with plenty of daylight and the kids out there doing it in January. Nutty kid! Great stuff.
But over the last year... I've been perusing websites, blogs, etc....and that's just something I've seen really vary (the very good and the very bad), at least as it comes to cycling and sponsorships etc.
I've seen the dedicated like FuzzyJohn, the extreme and funny, like the TeamDicky website. Rich is good at putting himself at the center of a joke, but does a great job of getting his new sponsors names out there, constantly in fact, but his "website" isn't about this post.
It's in fact another more specifically, and it will go unnamed. But I've seen it here and there by others as well but not nearly as a common theme. I'm guessing there's more than meets the eye, but really, consider you're getting crap for free and put a sock in it. It just amazes me how a company can give someone product(s), travel money, race support. and that person can turn on them the first time the small company says, sorry we can't do any more for you. Especially when the person hasn't exactly been knocking down the podium either. I mean really have some integrity, not to mention, realize the fact the bike industry is a no margin venture and the economy has stunk it up for the last 18 months.
Sorry for a semi rant, but this has been gnawing at me for most of the last year and I read another passive aggressive post by the same person and I thought REALLY still?
Sooner or later stuff like that seems to catch up to people and we can only treat others how we ourselves want to be treated. I sleep well at night, but I wonder if those people in question do.
On a separate note, if you haven't visited Global Biorhytm's website, please do. I've enjoyed the regular posts by Dez, Jenn, Dawn, and Sean. Dez mostly, love reading his training misadventures. The latest on a big loop into the Sierra's should only be done with plenty of daylight and the kids out there doing it in January. Nutty kid! Great stuff.
Monday, January 19, 2009
A normal, not normal week.
Last week was not normal, because I had a promotional exam interview for work. I work for the government and it's a long process to even get on a list to be eligible. I've spent the last couple months preparing, but I just have to say, I didn't meet my own expectations for performance, so we'll see what the results say in a few weeks. They grade on a curve, and it was a difficult exam, so maybe others will not have met their expectations either. Fat chance...LOL.
On the cycling front...First week of semi normal training 4 days of riding, some good tempo miles on the commute, and a very nice 3 hour ride on the SS yesterday. Even dropped down Drivers Flat and grinded that 1k+ in 2 mile back out. Did run into a lady with two horses, one of which was running the fireroad unreined. I stopped and waited for her to pass with the rogue horse... I could sense a lil distrust for me as a cyclist, until that point. Once I stopped though, she was very thankful. I think that accident last week at Folsom lake is going to leave folks in both user groups a bit nervous about each other. Regardless of the fact, that other issue involved motorcycles.
The crazy thing to me with this, was that she had the horse running unreined and unattached from her on a road with normal traffic, especially on the weekend. Anyway....
If you've seen my blog before, you'll notice I added in some highlight results of my past. More of a motivator for me to see than anything else, I can manage some success and to get my butt into that training mode.
I'm feeling pretty healthy, now it's just a matter of getting the training house in order so to speak.
Today's a day to hang out with the kids, unfortunately probably no hiking trips or outside trips since both are at some point of getting over the flu. Unlucky lil ones.
Amanda is doing a lemon detox thing and wants me to do it. I told her I'd watch her for a couple days and see how it goes, before I make that committment. It'd mean no coffee for awhile...and I'm not ready to make that committment (slurp, as I'm writing this).
On the cycling front...First week of semi normal training 4 days of riding, some good tempo miles on the commute, and a very nice 3 hour ride on the SS yesterday. Even dropped down Drivers Flat and grinded that 1k+ in 2 mile back out. Did run into a lady with two horses, one of which was running the fireroad unreined. I stopped and waited for her to pass with the rogue horse... I could sense a lil distrust for me as a cyclist, until that point. Once I stopped though, she was very thankful. I think that accident last week at Folsom lake is going to leave folks in both user groups a bit nervous about each other. Regardless of the fact, that other issue involved motorcycles.
The crazy thing to me with this, was that she had the horse running unreined and unattached from her on a road with normal traffic, especially on the weekend. Anyway....
If you've seen my blog before, you'll notice I added in some highlight results of my past. More of a motivator for me to see than anything else, I can manage some success and to get my butt into that training mode.
I'm feeling pretty healthy, now it's just a matter of getting the training house in order so to speak.
Today's a day to hang out with the kids, unfortunately probably no hiking trips or outside trips since both are at some point of getting over the flu. Unlucky lil ones.
Amanda is doing a lemon detox thing and wants me to do it. I told her I'd watch her for a couple days and see how it goes, before I make that committment. It'd mean no coffee for awhile...and I'm not ready to make that committment (slurp, as I'm writing this).
Sunday, January 11, 2009
It's 2009, where have I been?
Nowhere! That's where I've been....really just been busy with other things to post here.
The last four months have been interesting though, after my dumb accident in June, I found I never really healed up. Kind of found this out in my first CX race when I had trouble getting out of bed the next day. LOL.
Long story short, I've been doing lots of 12 oz curls the last four months. I signed up for Boggs in March and do plan on some other events this year...so time to keep the hopps out of the fridge and get some structure back to my riding.
I bought Dan Tebbs Orbea Arin a few weeks ago and wow what a nice road bike. Thanks for the great deal Dan.
Other things...it's the two weeks of Rylan right now. He was born on Dec. 31, but we always delay celebrating his birthday to kind of keep it separate from the holidays. However, it seems instead it's become his two weeks. From a family bday Dec. 31, to a school bday, to his actual planned bday. Amanda and I will be reevaluating this approach next year, or we may be taking the term "spoiled" to a whole new level.
Meanwhile, Annelise is in "when is it my bday" mode. She's a character and Ms. Drama, I'm thinking it's a good thing her bday is no where near the xmas holiday.
I plan on posting more regulary, but I make no promises....lol.
The last four months have been interesting though, after my dumb accident in June, I found I never really healed up. Kind of found this out in my first CX race when I had trouble getting out of bed the next day. LOL.
Long story short, I've been doing lots of 12 oz curls the last four months. I signed up for Boggs in March and do plan on some other events this year...so time to keep the hopps out of the fridge and get some structure back to my riding.
I bought Dan Tebbs Orbea Arin a few weeks ago and wow what a nice road bike. Thanks for the great deal Dan.
Other things...it's the two weeks of Rylan right now. He was born on Dec. 31, but we always delay celebrating his birthday to kind of keep it separate from the holidays. However, it seems instead it's become his two weeks. From a family bday Dec. 31, to a school bday, to his actual planned bday. Amanda and I will be reevaluating this approach next year, or we may be taking the term "spoiled" to a whole new level.
Meanwhile, Annelise is in "when is it my bday" mode. She's a character and Ms. Drama, I'm thinking it's a good thing her bday is no where near the xmas holiday.
I plan on posting more regulary, but I make no promises....lol.
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