August 2006

Threshold Power and Potato Power

Not that it’s any surprise, but today I confirmed that my threshold power is really good right now. After a couple days of recovery, then

Cycling Tips w/Dave Zabriskie on X96

If there’s one thing that I don’t like about Boise, it’s the lack of decent radio stations. There’s only one station of each major format:

Idaho State Criterium

Heather takes the Idaho state criterium championship! Heather took out her frustration after yesterday’s flat and rode a brilliant race today. Since I was corner-marshaling,

Idaho State Road Race

It was a long, lonely road after getting dropped for good the third time up El Paso. Today Heather and I had the Idaho State

Padding the Hours

After a day off the bike yesterday, I felt good this morning so I set out to do a long ride to pad my weekly

Fruit Harvest

Between the tomato plants and the fruit trees both being in season right now, we came back from our weekend trip to a lot of

Back Home

We flew back from Chicago on a super early flight this morning. We managed to make it onboard each leg — always a good thing

USCF Criterium Championships

After not getting a good night’s sleep, I didn’t know how I’d feel in today’s cat 2-only race. It wasn’t technically a “championship”, that status

Pro-Am Challenge

Tonight were the “warm-up” events for tomorrow’s championships. Heather’s race was first and it looked like a pretty big field with a lot of heavy

Downers Grove

Today we flew out to Chicago for the USCF Criterium Championships. Since we were flying non-rev, we ended up having to split up since there

Air Quality Alert

Yesterday they issued an air quality red alert due to the smoke from all the wildfires around the region. We’ve continued to have a bunch

The Velodrome is Coming!

Tonight I joined about 40-50 other cyclists to show support for the Idaho Velodrome & Cycling Park project. This undertaking has been in the works

The Cycling Classic

Today was the inaugural edition of The Cycling Classic and it’s set to become a true classic as the name implies. The course consisted of

Wind Storm

Last night we had a freak wind storm come through the Boise area. There was no lightning or rain associated with it, but the wind

Reality Check

Heather, acting as my voice of reason, just talked some sense into me. I was slated to do the I-84 Challenge, which is the combined

Testing the Waters

This morning my resting HR was finally down and my temp was normal so I went out for a long tempo ride. I did my

Mmmm…Pluots

What’s a pluot? It’s a cross between an apricot and a plum. We were first introduced to them when we were living in Utah. They’ve

Getting Better

Since my temperature peaked on Wednesday, it has progressively come down to just barely above normal. Some other symptoms lingered through Thursday and Friday, but

Influenza

On Tuesday night, I started feeling a little off, but I didn’t think much of it. But when I woke up Wednesday morning I could