It has taken me most of the last two days to feel normal. Or start to feel normal. Or whatever. I’m not exactly “normal” yet, but I haven’t been normal in quite some time. I didn’t race the damn thing, but I still had to drive all the way up there and back. Ugh. I [...]

I leave for Leadville tomorrow morning, early of course. There is no other way to tackle a ten hour drive. You gotta hit it hard just as the sky warms. That way, by the time you even think about breakfast, you’re already a hundred miles away. This will be my first time going up to [...]

Someone suggested I might be suffering from a little Post Traumatic Stress… If that explains why I’m going out of my mind crazy staring at my busted up bike out in the garage, then maybe so. I feel like guzzling liquor right out the bottle and smashing things into little tiny pieces. I can’t sleep [...]

Today’s ride was two hours. I got rained on toward the end. Enough that I had a hot shower and a bowl of soup when I got home. Today’s animal sighting was a mountain lion. First one I’ve seen up here, the second I’ve ever seen lifetime. Outside of stuff and mounted, that is. The [...]

I got in about two and a half hours on my mountain bike on Sunday. It was raining a bit, on and off. I missed most of it. Or, most of it missed me. All a matter of one’s perspective, I suppose. I screwed around a bit in that wide expanse between Fort Tuthill And [...]

I did not watch the stage finish this morning for the first time since the Tour started. I just couldn’t. I packed up my daughter and took her to daycare before it ended. We had sat together on the sofa and watched all the other stages end. But not today. I did, however, have the [...]

With all the Vino Action going off today, there hasn’t been much talk around these parts about the little chat Alberto “Gonzo” Gonzales had with the Senate. And by “chat” I mean “testify”. His was some extremely interesting testimony. And by “interesting” I mean “fucking insane”. Today, Gonzales did something absolutely unexpected: he said that [...]

I rode for three hours this morning. I weight 210 pounds. I just ate three turkey sandwitches. I’m happier than a pig in shit. Last Sunday I put 10 speed Dura Ace on my Moser. She was fixed until then. All morning, when I was with the group ride, before I got dropped out by [...]

This is to be tonight’s catch all post. Go figure. Email from Lovedog: From: Lovedog Two links here (one NPR audio player, one for RealPlayer, both are the same 29 min. interview) regarding Floyd and his book and his ongoing doping legal issues: npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/07/floyd_landis_on_floyd_landis, and npr.org/templates/story/story. Interesting perspectives, comments and arguments. It is worth the [...]

I’d tell ya I went for this awesome ride today, but I’d be lying. What I really did was a whole lot of nothing much. I did, however, air up the tires on three of my bikes and ride each one of them around the block. Total ride time: less than one half hour. I [...]

…went to a bar and caught me a 40. Yo, I changed it up from Saturday night. I can’t lie to ya. Schooly D. Straight outta 1987. Happy Friday. This is what it looks like at my house tonight. Anyway, here are a couple of mails that got knocked around this week for your reading [...]

After dinner tonight I went out for an hour long ride on my single speed cross bike. The bars are high, the seat is comfortable. It felt pretty good. The air was good, cool and crisp. The ground begs for rain; it is dusty as all hell out there. I saw three elk, first two [...]