As I rode my bike up Elm Ave. Wednesday evening, I turned a lot of heads. No. It was not because of my good looks. I’d have to say heads were turning to try to figure out why a 38 year old woman was riding a Scott carbon racing bike and wearing a vintage 1985 St. [...]

After giving some thought to the cx phenomenom I began to realize that it may be explained by what appears to be a strong  correlation between pain and euphoria. The more something hurts the more euphoria it creates.  Think about it.
The best massage of your life was the one that hurt so bad that it [...]

MONDAY NIGHT BANG @ BANGARET (MTN BIKING)
Calling all Team Revolution Mountain/Cross Bike Riders:
For a Big Bang @ Bangert Island. It will give you a great workout on the trails through the woods (in the dark).
Feel the coolness of the night air and the darkness surround you as you whisk thru trees, pop off [...]

Yesterday’s cyclocross(cx) race lasted about an hour.  For about an hour, I felt like I had Luciano Pavorati sitting squarely on my chest.  For about an hour, I hoped that someone that I had upset in the past would be at the race with a gun and put me out of my misery. My hour [...]

Well, as Ana put it, we should entitle this particular ride as “The Dirty Girls Guide to Turning a Fun Filled Ride into a Gilligan’s Island meets Survivor Epic”. What should have been a “two hour tour” turned into a four hour fiasco. If it could happen, it did. And if it shouldn’t have happened, it still did.

As I sit in my cozy office, looking south at the cold grey sky, I couldn’t help but wonder if this fall weather is normal. Did I blink and miss fall? I hope not.

Hats off to the Pride folks. They were as friendly as could be. If I heard “Thanks for coming” once, I heard it a dozen times. The course was a lot of fun. It wasn’t their fault that I am a ditz.

Join us, October 10, 2009 at 10 a.m. at Kirkwood Park for the 4th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Ride.
Hosted by Trek Women and The TREK Store of St. Louis, the BCAR aims to raise awareness for breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment by joining forces with women and men of all ages and abilities to [...]