Outdoor Addict

What a great few days of cycling.  Painful, but great non the less.
Sunday had me toed up on the line at the Great Glen cross series with the other intermediate/elite racers.  I put myself in the intermediate group because I knew there was no way I was going to hang with the big boys.  I [...]

Back at it, and gearing up for a bunch of different events..  In particular, the Porky Gulch Classic.
Last night, I dug out the lights and went in search of some new trails.  A friend from work has been working on a few, so he wanted me to bring the GPS along and plot out some [...]

Nothing like a killer view as we left the office for our morning ride:

I don’t get to see many sunrises because of my desire to stay in bed as late as possible, but from what I was told, this was a nice one in comparrison to what we have seen lately.  The picture doesn’t quite [...]

I lied.  There as no racing for me this weekend.  But I do have a very good excuse for it.
You see, ever since Kelly has taken her new job up at Great Glen, she has been forced to work weekends.  After all, that is when the majority of events are taking place and visitors are [...]

This is the email I get this morning:
I call this photo…
“trash can’s demise” or “the fall of the giant”.

What you don’t see in the photo is the rest of the field, about 2 minutes behind him.  The rider in this photo was a ringer hired for betting purposes.  Betting against me.  I was bet a [...]

Finally, after all this wait, I got to race in some cross races. I have been thinking about cross for a few years, and even tried one at Great Glen Trails a few years back. The only real thing I remember about that day is the amount of hurt that I put myself [...]