The ride started out like any other Team Rev Wednesday Night Ride. We met in Straub’s parking lot a little before 6:00 p.m. and chatted about this and that.
But also in the conversation this week, the debate: was it or was it not going to rain on us.
At the time it was sunny and warm. [...]

I just wrote “felt pretty good” in my bike log for both Sunday’s road race and Saturday’s crit. But I did not “feel pretty good” out there. It hurt. Both races were with really tough riders that kept pushing the pace, had hills that made the muscles burn, and Sunday was a “little” warmer than [...]

My beloved Julius has been feeling under the weather the past few days.
It all started Saturday after a long ride, a few sprinkles of rain, all-in-all a good time… but then just as we wer getting back into town, something went wrong with Julius—he became unresponsive. He did not want to change gears, in fact [...]

There’s a first time for everything and in the past two weekends there have been lots of new experiences for this kiddo.
Last weekend was the first time I’d attempted two racing days in a row. Hillsboro road race and then the Tilles  Criterium.  I’m not really sure my legs knew what they were in for, [...]

I found a new road on my ride yesterday!
This is a big deal in an area where there is seemingly exactly one road for each of the four directions.
Beyond where’d I had ever gone before on the “South Road,” lies possibly the road to the middle-of-nowhere.
It is certainly a road that, almost magically, takes you [...]

and that happened to be at Froze Toes! (one race under the belt for this kid!)
Wow! That was some fun stuff.   I may not have told you that at, say, mile 25…but after crossing the finish line that magic, exhilarating feeling after a hard, leave-everything-out-there ride/workout/race (as I can now use in relation to cycling) [...]

OMG!… it’s coming.
The day I’ve been waiting for since, basically, last year when I got my first road bike (and then started hanging out with cool Team Rev gals who told me super sweet stories about racing).
Yep, race day numero uno, it’s almost here.
Being the over-eager competitor that I am, I set my desktop countdown [...]

…that’s not true.  (Thanks goodness for Team Revolution, so I can continue my cycling education!)
But as I thumbed through the introduction of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Robert Fulghum, 1988) I couldn’t help but think how many of the principles listed are good starting blocks for life, as well as [...]

As I begin this quest…and I’m not really for sure where I’m going with this new adventure on the bike (“the sky’s the limit”, right?!)…I just know that I tend to not do things half-heartedly. And as a precaution en route to taking things more seriously (maybe even too serious sometimes), I often over look [...]