In ’06 we killed TR. It was the season’s #1 goal. Coming back for the second time we had no such ambitions. In fact, our sole goal was to finish. Of course, we were riding SS bikes – and to my knowledge a 7 day stage race has never been done by a woman and […]
Category Archives: Race Execution
Blissed out on the Kaibab
Last Saturday was the annual running of the Kaibab Monster Cross on the Kaibab plateau. We had tossed around several incarnations of how to do this one…how it ended up was that I raced, Lynda & the kids explored the North Rim, then the day after the race we switched roles. It was a blissful, […]
KT his & hers
On Sunday Lynda and I set out to put in a fast time on the Kokopelli trail on our single speed Konas. The punchline: we both finished in record time, LW @ 15:21 and DH @ 13:19. It was a day of 2 Epic love! Here’s the nitty gritty. —————————————————- Last weekend – when many riders […]
Mesa Verde 12 hour
We had been planning on going to DS&G all spring…clearly we didn’t make it out to TN this year. There have been enough curveballs of late to make a rigid schedule not so alluring or practical. Notwithstanding, I still had the urge to put down a race effort. It’s been awhile since going to the […]
Ridin’ rims with grins
We’ve been looking forward to RimRide for a long time. The plan from day one was to ride it SS, not hard, and together. After Vision Quest, 1/2 of 2 Epic had a tendon injury that made riding SS impossible…there were a few weeks when we just didn’t know what we’d do. Gears? Skip it […]
2 min power
2 min power is still heading in the right direction. 321w for me this week, which is another PR – nice… Next week is Vision Quest. 56.5 miles with 11.5k of elevation gain – wow. I’ve never ridden the course on my bike but there are some very cool pre-ride tools available for this one […]
Virtual VQ Recon
Vision Quest is just around the corner. Never having ridden in the region, it seems like a good idea to figure out what I’m in for. As it turns out SoCal riders post a zillion GPS files of routes, races and training at GeoLadders – the VQ course is up at http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=489. The first part […]
Rim Ride Moab: the new classic
As Fred W and I stood waiting for the start of Old Pueblo this year he was telling me about a different epic ride a month later in Moab. It was hard to think of doing the RimRide 2 minutes before starting a 24 hour effort…all I could think was the timing was bad, I […]