The Velominati Speaks

Rule #6 - Free your mind and your legs will follow.

Your mind is your worst enemy.  Do all your thinking before you start riding your bike.  Once the pedals start to turn, wrap yourself in the sensations of the ride - the smell of the air, the sound of the tires, the feeling of flight as the bicycle rolls over the road.

Squaw Pass - Training Ride

Bucket List Items CAN Be Fun

Posted October 4th 2009
Colorado to do list:
Summit Longs Peak
Summit Mount of the Holy Cross
Denver Broncos game
Hut trip
Colorado's Triple Bypass
Iron Horse Bicycle Classic
Concert at Red Rocks


One of the sweetest items on my Bucket List.  The next one won't be as much fun! 


Thank you Deb for the tickets.


6/17/11
Ray LaMontagne
Brandi Carlile
Red Rocks, CO

Colorado's Triple Bypass

The color red gives me anxiety.  I think I finally figured out why.

Googling images for "Triple Bypass" sent me to a link for "The 20 Hardest Endurance Races of the World".  WORLD.  The Tour de France was 7th on the list and The Triple Bypass was 17.  I read somewhere that 90% of the riders are men.  I heard from a person at the top of Squaw Pass that it was a blizzard for the 2008 Triple and people suffered from hypothermia.  Hmmmmmmmmm.  I should probably be outside riding my bike, huh ... instead of blathering on a blog.  As a matter of fact, I should PROBABLY use my bike as my only mode of transportation until ride day.  I did my first century ride this past weekend.  103 miles actually.  I thought it was a hundred mile ride and I wanted to just pull off the road at 100 and collapse on the sidewalk.  I was done.  There was probably only 2000 feet of climbing that day (for reference ... TB = 11,000' ... ORAMM = 10,000').  My first century ride was flat as a bumpy pancake and it still hurt (hurts ;).  Time to get serious!  I'm serious.  I'm so serious I'm going to ride my bike on my lunch break tomorrow.  

One month from TODAY.

Triple Bypass

Bucket List

Stretch Goal

7/9/11

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