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  • Alp De Turah

    Yeah, major setback: my race bike broke down, and then I discovered my bike rack was stolen. Overcoming those obstacles, I headed out on my old Leader for some RMVQ scouting. Opted to try a new section dubbed “Alp De Turah” by my friend Ed, hoping to bypass the dreaded Clinton Express usually encountered around…

  • Bad Luck In Paradise

    I went to Butte yesterday with my friend Ross to pre ride the last 50 miles of the Butte 100. I had a secondary goal of providing Bob (Triple Ring Productions) with a complete GPS track of the Butte 50. I gave Ross final instructions on how the course crossed the road about 3 or…

  • Jazz

    Yesterday after work I took a rest day and headed into the pain lab for a core tune-up. Shortly after Paul, Niko, and I headed out to the Winery by the airport exit to watch my good friend Ed play the drums in a couple sets of some of the best jazz I have heard.…

  • TNR – Point Six

    It was only a matter of time before “an entity” came into my “place of being” and started verbally accosting  me, physically protruding its probing apparatus into my arm, and hitting my computer screen. Once the “entity” does that it frees me up from giving a shit about “my moments obligations”. So I will blog,…

  • Triple

    I just put down a breakfast sandwich. Turkey bacon and egg on toasted gluten-free. A cup of Mate should complete the morning refuel session. It’s time to pull the Turner off the rack and get it ready for a 4 hour excursion tonight. The plan for me is to do 4 more hill efforts at…

  • Smoke On The Water

    Today I head out to Pattee for hill repeats twice. I do two runs up the hill at lunch time and after work I go back out to the hill. Once home I can do a third workout in the pain lab. I will be sporting the new kit from Triple Ring Productions. That’s the…

  • Catching Up

    Don’t you hate it when your eating something so tasty that you loose yourself in a sub reality of taste bud heaven only to awake suddenly because that what you were shoving into your mouth is suddenly missing. You look around for clues but the investigation comes to one of two conclusions. One is that…

  • Saddle Time

    The weekend is over and I have tallied up the damage.  I only accomplished a modest 147 off road miles but the 21,500 feet of vertical gain for the week says it all. With the help of friends I put in three huge single track days in the last four days to push up my…

  • Riding Sheep

    Details … Dave (his post) and I sat the the Big Dipper cooling our core temperature with some mocha milkshakes. Suddenly the truth came out. “I thought, wow. We might make Sheep without a mechanical”, Dave recalls thinking. Then it happened…   Just hours and 3000 feet worth of climbing we were at the Grind.…

  • TNR – Blue Point

    The souls started to gather and soon they heading out from the Rattlesnake Trailhead. Along the way Jill Homer joined us and at the top of a climb Dave Chenault. I was among the group heading up to Blue Point on the Missoula Thursday Night Ride and it’s longest ride of the season (I think). …

  • Stewart Peak

    My training plan indicated that I had two workouts to do. Workout #1 was to be a road bike ride for 2 hours with 10 hill repeats at an all out effort. Workout #2 would then be in the “Pain Lab” doing a core workout. So yesterday morning I prepared for these. During my morning…

  • Sanity Versus Performance

    A balance between sanity and performance has to be struck. I just put on my Yerba Mate to brew and until I get that energy from the magical juice of exotica I cant strike anything let alone any real constructive thoughts. Lately it seems like I have been recovering from a concussion rather then a…

  • Day Off

    I finally put my feet on the ground around 10 in the morning. This is as late as I will ever wake up. I partied hard yesterday. After a big ride I melted into Bob’s sofa in the TRP cave for some Butte style porter. It was some good stuff. Thankfully Alden bypassed the delights…

  • 4th Of July In Butte

    I almost set off for a hike when Sten H. called, inviting me for a ride in Butte on the 4th of July. Still recovering from last weekend’s 24-hour race, I was hesitant. Sten promised a short, easy recovery ride. After posting about the ride on Twitter and Facebook, Alden W. called, interested in joining.…

  • 24 Hours of Rapelje Race Report

    I don’t know when I started thinking and realizing that maybe I should blog about last weekend’s bike race. I have great support, Triple Ring Productions for paying my way to the 24 Hours of Rapelje, and Carbo Rocket for setting me up with enough juice to rip off 235 miles in 24 hours. Yes,…

  • Mindset

    I awoke to sunlight streaming through the leaves of a hard wood tree, probably cottonwood. I heard voices and looked over to see a man standing over another telling him that they needed to get going. I sat up and looked across the grass to a river.  It came to me that I knew these…

  • TNR With Jill

    I have still not yet conceived my existence on this planet let alone have the legs to go on a 3000 foot climbing venture on a mountain bike. Still though there was a chance that if I were to go on the weekly Missoula Thursday Night Ride I may have a chance to meet Jill…

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