Mud, Sweat, & Gears Photo

A small addition to my last post on the Mud, Sweat, & Gears Duathlon….professional photographers from Sportography were on hand and I broke down and got this one:

That hill was steep!!
–Karen

Race Report: Mud, Sweat & Gears Duathlon, Ashland, MA

My fondest Sunday mornings are spent sleeping in, waking late with a cozy cup of coffee and an english muffin, and watching HGTV under a warm blanket. But this Sunday morning was the Mud, Sweat & Gears Duathlon in Ashland, Massachusetts.
I have been eying this race for about a decade. That’s how long it’s been [...]

Recon Report: Ashland State Park

Yesterday I traveled to Ashland to check out the course for the Mud, Sweat and Gears Duathlon being held October 4, 2009.  The park is a nice little state park, and was closed to vehicles due to budgetary constraints.  I parked outside the gate with the other vehicles, pulled the mountain bike off the truck [...]

Defining My Racing Strategy

Mt Toby Trails
Originally uploaded by sipclip&go

Last Monday Gail & I made it out for a planned brick: a short trail run followed immediately by mountain biking. We’re prepping for the Mud Sweat and Gears Duathlon in Ashland, MA on October 4th. This is my first attempt at multisport, and my first race since in about 8 [...]

The Quabbin Fire Roads

The Quabbin is a favorite place of mine: I’ve blogged about it before. When road riding, I ride to it. I’ve hiked it. I’ve snowshoed it. I’ve fished it. I’ve boated it. And now I’ve mountain biked it.
The Quabbin is a huge place. From the “Friends of the Quabbin” site: The reservoir is 18 miles [...]

72 & 800 miles

Oliver Seikel (charmingly–pronounced “cycle”), age 72, biked over 800 miles from Ohio to Cambridge, Massachusetts to get to his 50 year class reunion at MIT.   Pretty incredible!
–Karen

Is 2 a group?

 Probably not.
But this morning, Gail & I coordinated our respectively crazy schedules for a short but sweet road ride.
We were both yearning for a different route. My routes went stale about a year ago and I haven’t had much opportunity to travel with the road bike. Gail (pictured) was in the same spot–and she suggested [...]

Rain, Rain, Go Away

MUD~
Originally uploaded by sipclip&go

What is going on with the weather?
Every other Friday night, my Ladies Mountain Bike Group heads out for some trail riding. Every other Friday night, and nearly every day in between, it is raining. Heavily. The last two Friday nights, there was such heavy rains we canceled the ride.
Last night two of [...]

Back to Riding

View of Quabbin, Windsor Dam
Originally uploaded by sipclip&go

Oh June was a long, hard month. I think I had an easier time in February than I did in June. I definitely exercised more in February. But now we’re into July and getting a little more sun than rain (thank God!). And at last, my class is [...]

Kinda, Sorta, A Brick

June was a bad month for me.  Everything else in life was great–but as far as getting a workout in?  Forget it.  Sure, I went mountain biking a couple times in Colorado, and once with my SCAG Ladies group, but I only got on the road bike once.  Once!  The rain is partly to blame, [...]