muddylegs

Check out this great video Mat took of the ‘cross race on Sunday! I had a blast riding around in the mud, although my desire and ability to race at 100% seems to have waned for the year.

I’ve been sick for the past couple of weeks and have been taking it easy on the CX racing. My big race weekend for the month was the UCI race in Boulder. Unfortunately I didn’t start the first day…

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Giant must be releasing a sweet carbon ‘cross bike at Interbike this year. As Spencer noted, there’s no way they’d have the Rabobank guys racing World Cups on an alloy bike.

Speaking of…

Roasted cauliflower steak, garlic mashed potatoes, seared spinach, and curried lentils BookCliff Vineyards Lucky Twenty White Table Wine

We had an unusually rainy and overcast weekend in Boulder. It was the perfect weather to spend some time harvesting from our container garden while planting fall and winter/early spring plants…

I’ve been looking forward to Koppenberg ever since last April. It was scheduled for this spring, and postponed twice because of bad weather. Last year, the Koppenberg was my first road race in…

[Sorry, only a few iPhone pictures to enhance this post. I left my real camera at work over the weekend.]

Spencer’s sister came to town on Friday, and we had a weekend of delicious food discoveries.

Lately I’ve been eating a lot of ramen. Yep, the instant kind. No, I didn’t lose my job.

Surprised? It’s actually pretty good—if you ditch the seasoning packet and add your own ingredients. It’s…

Today was state crit champs in Niwot. I wasn’t really amped on defending my title, and once I saw how stacked the field was (Mara Abbot, Alison Dunlap, Cari Higgins…) I was even less so. I was…