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When I was a runner of sorts, I read everything I could about training. I raced several 5Ks, the Crim, and a couple of marathons. I knew my stuff. A lot of the training concepts I learned from running translate into the mountain biking.
I have four years experience with mountain biking, three [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
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Tags: Iceman Cometh, Mountain Biking, Training
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What do you do when you are having a hard time getting out for a ride? The reason could be laziness, business, or both. In my case, I’ve been a little lazy and I’ve certainly kept myself busy. Spend the weekend in Houghton? Wha…? Is that even possible?
The Keweenaw had the [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Churning Rapids, Mountain Biking
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Horseshoe Harbor.
I had to ride my mountain bike the last day I was in Copper Harbor. It would simply be wrong to do otherwise. The problem was that I didn’t feel like climbing all the way up the hill just so I could ride back down. I wasn’t in the mood for [...]
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| Tags: Examiner, Horseshoe Harbor, Mountain Biking
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My Sunday was not very exciting. We’ll skip that.
Monday, I went for a ride with Rachel and Cory. I really enjoyed it. Riding with Rachel is fun because it’s not super serious and we take the time to stop and ride those parts that are hardest for us. We rode some [...]
Categories: Lifestyle, Mountain Biking
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I showed up to the Monday night 32-mile Chain Drive pre-ride. I thought I would attempt this ride for the second time, ever. The interesting thing about the Chain Drive, and all of the other Keweenaw races, is that, while elevation evens out, total climbing mileage is significantly greater than descending mileage. Imagine me, [...]
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I was feeling really good. I took several rock piles and gardens and tackled all of the log jumps. I saw a double log jump and thought, “What the heck! I can clear this.” I made it over the first log jump and started to prep myself for the second one only about two feet [...]
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My Jamis is in need of love. I dropped it off at The Bike Shop the other day for a tune-up and some brake attention. Fortunately for me, I kept my old bike – you know, that really old bike.
My 2005 Trek Fuel EX7 WSD.
Earlier this year, Bike Shop Caleb tuned-up my Trek [...]
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| Tags: Equipment, Jamis, Mountain Biking, Trek
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I did a bit of a Di day, today.
My morning centered around a nice, carb-rich breakfast and preparation for a bike ride. It was beautiful and sunny, I really had no obligations, so I was going to spend a few hours with the bike.
The plan was to ride to the Tech Trails [...]
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| Tags: Finding Time, Keweenaw, Lifestyle, Mountain Biking
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Timing is an interesting concept. Let’s talk about that.
I woke up to a phone call at 1:45 in the morning asking me to come into work to do an ultrasound. Yay. I knew this was going to affect my mountain bike ride I sort of had scheduled the next day. I [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Illness, Mountain Biking
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Tonight was the first Monday night group ride of 2009. I was pretty excited to go. I went. I had a lot of fun.
We started by riding down the road for awhile. A good deal of this “while” was spent climbing. It’s the Keweenaw Peninsula – we have long, long [...]
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