2024: Mad Goalz Yo!

It’s New Year’s Eve, and my annual goal planning is ON. Last year at this time, I could care less about cycling goals. VT50 killed all of that. I have this habit of reading The NY Times and they have an annual release of the “best advice” for the year. I really remember “just because you can do…

Muddy Onion Spring Classic

Oh Vermont, I want to run away with you forever. But for now, I just have the occasional jaunt north. Last weekend, it was for the Muddy Onion-a gravel ride kicking off in Montpelier and looping across 3,700 feet of green mountain goodness on mostly gravel roads. Laura & I signed up back in February,…

Adventure Bucket List for 2016

Ambition will probably get the better of me, but I’m fired up about 2016 and I’m making plans. I lust for adventure, but with a tight schedule and tighter budget, I take what I can get, and work to create the rest. This year I’m looking at some “local” adventure, and with a little luck…

The Nudge

Last year Laura and I had a bet, and I won. It was that same one we had in 2013-who can ride the most miles on their bike in a calendar year. She won that one. The prize this year, which had never really been discussed, was decided to be a day on bikes together….

MTB Nirvana: My Vacation To Whistler, BC

Speechless, which is what this post will be for the most part. I was utterly speechless walking through the Village of Whistler at the base of Whistler Mountain.  DH, full suspension mountain bikes leaning everywhere, being walked, being coasted and hopped down the playful mounds of earth sculpted in the mountain bike park. I did…

Root 66 Domnarski Farm MTB Race Report

The last time I raced my mountain bike it was 2002. I had been mountain biking for about 2 years and raced only twice before. I was in northern Connecticut and don’t remember how I did. I remember my seat post slid down so low over the course of the race my lower back felt…

The Rapha Women’s 100km

The Rapha Women’s 100 was held today, an International celebration of women on bikes.  On July 7, 2013 women worldwide celebrated by riding 100km.  The Facebook page is here. “The Rapha Women’s 100 is not a competition to see who is the fastest, it is about gathering a global community of women around the world…

Early morning rides

I’m not a morning person, but in order to maintain continuity in my fitness, I’ve started getting up early to ride.  I wake between 5 or 6am, sneak in an hour or so, shower, dress, and then drive 45 minutes to work.  I’ve been about to eek out some mileage by doing this.  I’ve also…

Good cyclist, bad blogger

I’ve been slacking in my blogging duties, but for a great many good reasons.  Paramount is that I’ve been riding my bike, which — let’s face it — is the entire point, right? I joined the May Massive on Strava, a simple little contest where you just ride as much as you can in the…

Just a girl?

Last weekend, I was at my favorite LBS when I picked up a copy of SingleTracks.  SingleTracks is the free magazine put out by NEMBA (The New England Mountain Biking Association). It’s a nice black & white publication with stories, photos, trails, events  and of course, ads. I was thumbing through SingleTracks tonight when I…