Good times at the cyclocross race on Saturday. Not sure how I finished, but I expect a strong mid-pack finish as always.

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During several of my previous rides the idea of a ride that would link together a number of the area trails into one large point to point had been brought up. The basic idea was to try to ride from Alta to SLC using mostly trail and as little road as possible. It was an [...]

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After overcoming a bout of work and stress-related burnout I’m finally getting back on the bike regularly. I signed up to be on the RealCyclist sponsored cross team, and I asked them to pay the season entry for me. So I figure the least I can do is train and show up to race. Right [...]

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I finally got back to SLC after all the traveling and wedding shenanigans. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do fitness wise (I spent the last 3 weeks eating and drinking wine) so I set out on the bike at 6am on Friday. I threw on my lycra and decided to hit Wasatch [...]

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Rode the Flying Dog trail in Park City with Hollywood today. We rode the trail the opposite direction we normally do, and wow, it was awesome. It helped that it was a perfect day, sunny, 70ish degrees and it rained recently so the trail was packed down and tacky.
White bibs from Realcyclist.com. Real men aren’t [...]

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Oh how I loathe mornings, especially the early kind. You know, when the sun hasn’t even come up yet and it’s chilly despite the fact that it’s June? Those mornings, can’t stand them. On the other hand, I love to ride bikes. So every Thursday there’s this ride that starts at a trail (normally chosen [...]

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Yesterday I did the single longest continous ride of my life so far. It was also the single climbingest ride of my life so far.
I met up with Andrew at his house at 6:15 am yesterday morning for what I was told was going to be a 90ish mile ride with about 5500 feet of [...]

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Today I went on a really killer ride. My goal was to get approx 50 miles and 5,000 feet of ascending. I ended up coming up a little short on distance but exceeding the elevation goal. The route starts from my aparment complext and heads up Emigration Canyon. If you make a left at the [...]

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