It’s been two years since I rode my bike up the infamous and unbelievably beautiful Fall River Rd. in Rocky Mountain National Park outside of Estes Park, CO. At the time, that first ride felt like a transformational experience. It changed everything I believed about my own cycling abilities, my doubts about whether or not …
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Over Memorial Day weekend, I was blessed with four days off, so I tried to take advantage of the extra time and use one of those days to run/hike a new trail. I’ve gotten out of the habit of exploring new trails since the ones on my to-run and to-hike list were covered in snow …
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Gotta say, jumping back into work after a four-day weekend is a little rough. Last week, our company gave us Friday off so we could have an extra long Memorial Day weekend, and I tried my best to enjoy every freaking second of it. One of my favorite activities was a big gravel ride on …
I went back into an office yesterday! Before COVID-19 happened, the plan was to transition into a new office in April. A big, beautiful building was slowly being outfitted with standing desks, wall murals, hundreds of TVs and monitors, a full-service kitchen, teched-out conference rooms, and a garage door that opened to the outside, a …
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It feels like there’s no *right* time to start hanging out with people again because it’s become so routine to not…but after two months of pedaling alone, I was starting to go completely nuts without company. Part of the reason I ride is to be social! To catch up with friends, meet new people, see …
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On my way home from a beautiful trail run yesterday morning, I received some very sad news: Steamboat Gravel is cancelled for 2020. After a quick cool down, I climbed into my car and checked my texts and emails before heading home from the trailhead. My heart sank a little when I opened up a …
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When quarantine began more than a month ago, I was devastated and scared as the unknowns piled up one after the other. A week went by and I began to feel suffocated by my own walls, the pictures that hang on them, the books on my shelves. Three weeks later the loneliness really took hold …
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Since Dirty Kanza was postponed to September, I've been feeling much less pressure to go on big, stupid rides every weekend until race day. In the next couple months I'll really have to dial things up, but right now we are still relatively far out, so I have been enjoying less structure and more go-by-feel …
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I hate the devastation and the suffering. I don’t like the layoffs. I don’t like that huge races like the Boston marathon, the Tour de France, and the Olympics are either cancelled or postponed. I don’t like that I can’t see my family. I wish I could hug my mom. I wish I could hug …
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This is when we all should be doing big rides together! The other weekend when I ran into my friend (the one who so graciously sent me home with delicious pastries and ciabatta bread), she said this while we were talking about spring riding. And she’s right. April, May, June – these are the best …
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