The Everyday Athlete

Clock ticking over. Random drunkenness. Kissing? It’s the new year, so technically I am blog-ilogically obligated to say something about goal-setting or starting fresh or winter base miles, right? I’ll probably say these things. Later. Maybe. Goals are for the good and base miles make cyclists all of the things that they can be later down...   Read More...

Everyone has one social networking device (or twenty) that they’re holding out on, right? Like, the lovely Shannon of Super Relax is a Facebook holdout. Secretly, I think we’re going to break her soon, but for the moment she has sworn to maintain her coveted not-on-Facebook status. I’ll be honest with you. I started blogging in 2001...   Read More...

Merry Christmas Eve to all! I hope everyone is enjoying a safe and warm celebration, wherever you’ve ended up this holiday season. We’ve decided to stay in town and wait out the storm instead of braving the winter roadways to get to my parent’s cabin in the mountains of Washington. While I was sitting here missing them [...]   Read More...

No, really! The rumors have been confirmed - Bend will host Cyclocross Nationals next year! (And the year after that!) There is a really long press release about it, but I’ll cut to the chase because that’s how we like to roll ’round these parts. Tentative Dates for 2009: December 10-13 Race Director: Brad Ross Chance of Oregon ‘crossers...   Read More...

Hey, guess what! It’s still snowing. I know! I can’t believe it either. I just got a chance to hole up in my studio long enough to kick out some footage of the madness… Check my column at Wend Magazine for three minutes of blustery video, most of which looks as cold and chaotic as it actually [...]   Read More...