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Low drop, no drop, sockless, injinji, stack height, toe box, sprints, middle distance, roads, trails, pronation, barefoot, midfoot strike, distance, plantar, lace lock and proprioception to name few. Then you figure it all out with the shoe you like and the manufacturer changes it the next year...
I feel spring is in the air. I'm healing nicely and ready for this weekend. My daughter asked if I would do some hill sprints with her this Saturday morning.
After the workout we got to talking about drugs. She mentioned that before and a little during the workouts she feels that...
So generally after a race weekend. Someone will send me a pic of the action. This area is a really stunning landscape to have a race. Lush greens, what a wonderful color to just fall into.
My daughter especially, she will quiz me. She will say, what were you thinking right then, why is...
I was in a breakaway. We had 3 minutes on the chasing peloton. I am a sprinter by nature and do well when races end in them. It is early season and in this particular race, I was strong enough to hang with the attackers on the day's final climb. This was the winning group. These were the...
One of my goals this year was to be better at time trials. This is a race against yourself essentially. Over a set course, how fast can you complete it in. A lot of variables come into play. The bike setup and body position where you (and this is subjectively specific) can maintain the the...
What a beautiful day in the Bay Area today. I got up early and rode a quick 30 miles. After that my wife and I sat down and thought of where we were going to take the kids. I mentioned the last time we were in the Marin headlands. We picked our spot and away we went.
We crossed the golden...
The five - minus one
I have a lot of sunglasses for casual, shooting, running and cycling. Two weeks ago I was at my coaches gym and thought I had left a pair of Oakley's in the cubby I had placed my phone and wallet etc. I sent him a text later that day to ask him to do a spot check for...
Sometimes I have to do things myself. A challenge of something I guess. I just put a new stereo in one of our older run around vehicles. I love how cheap these things are and what they can do. I love the fact that this one Bluetooth's automatically to my phone and starts playing as soon as I...
Racing begins this month. As with most years, the planning for this one began last year. Over the winter I spent a lot of time with a new coach doing circuit training and gym work. That coupled with trail running and my winter cycling kept me pretty fit and not to tired going into this year...
So my daughter wanted the Taylor swift album, as a side note my son wanted imagine dragons. I got both. As they were bought through iTunes, they are available on all our phones. So now I have the swift album on my phone.
I am an incredible lover of music and have a wide range of things, with...
I was at my local bike shop recently and remembered a happening. A while ago, I was with my wife and kids at this shop. We were looking for some new bikes for the kids and letting them try some mtn bike models. They kids zeroed in on a mid level model that I liked, good quality and room to grow...
This one time at band camp. No I did not go to band camp. But I did just come back from a team training camp. It was in the Carmel area of the California coast. Four days of training plus my other ride earlier in the week put me in a breakthrough week. A lot of fast stretches of miles and...
We went to some really high sand dunes. The altimeter pegged it as climbing 800 feet to the top. The kids pointed to the highest one and said that's where we are going. Had lunch on top of the world or it at least felt like it. We had it all to ourselves. We probably had the most fun running and...
We made our way to a volcanic crater to finish the day. We hiked around the rim and to the bottom of the crater. The kids wanted to go inside and to the crater bottom. Going down was fun, going up, it was good to see the kids get into a rhythm and really tackle the climb. We stayed into the...
We started our adventure in one state and drove into another via a most beautiful rugged dirt ride. Past an abandoned old mining town and into a canyon that narrowed to the width of a vehicle and then opened into a majestic alluvial fan. We stopped at a canyon bend, did some climbing and just...
This was a really good example of what I like to do. We were really in the middle of nowhere and heading somewhere else. It was late in the day and twilight would be upon us soon. In the distance we saw these formations in a baron land. I passed by a dirt road that had a sign of the name of this...
Comfortably relaxing before bed at 830pm on a Friday night. Moments like this feel like the good life. Reading a good book about training and the mind. In the story a coach is putting some things in perspective. I am totally freaking "Athlete A".
But I know a few "Athlete B's". Actually...
This was an ongoing discussion for months in our house. Are we or when are we going to get the kids their own phones. Well you can see that we are now all outfitted with iPhone 6 plus's. Can you guess which one is mine.
My daughter is a teenager and my son is not far behind. The pros...
We have finally made it back to our proverbial safe warm Lancashire home. A long haul back late into the night. Hundreds of miles traveled with my wife dutifully awake to assist me with the task of uneventful passage. Lots of joking, laughing and talking about the adventures coming to a close...
I was packing our things together for a adventure starting tomorrow. Adventures are not convenient at every step of the way. I learned a long time ago. If you are going to push the boundary (and I mean geographical travel), you have to take into account amenities. As I have taken my family all...
