September 2006

2006 Season Review

Here’s the Performance Management Chart (PMC) for my 2006 season: If it looks a little different than the default PMC in CyclingPeaks, that’s because I

More Shipping and Travel Woes

After a long day of travel, we are finally back home in Eagle. Sunday after the criterium, we got Heather’s bike packed up and decided

Parker Mainstreet Omnium Criterium

After a couple of frustrating races today I think Heather and I are glad the season is finally over. Heather didn’t have such a great

Parker Mainstreet Omnium Road Race

It was brisk this morning for Heather’s 8 AM start. The women’s race consisted of three laps of a  21-mile, extremely hilly circuit. We drove

FedEx Botches it Again

After two days and many calls to FedEx, it seems that my race bike has been misdirected again, this time to Sacramento, CA! If that

Parker Mainstreet Omnium Time Trial

Heather had a good time trial this morning. The course looked like fun with a lot of ups and downs, good pavement, and sweeping turns.

Bikeless in Parker

Since we both have separate race and training bikes, it makes it possible to ship our race bikes to our destination ahead of time, rather

Bogus

So today the air quality finally improved to the point where I was willing to go do some hard efforts outside. So I headed out

No Bogus

With reports that the air quality would get better on Saturday, I went ahead and tried to register for the Bogus Basin Hill Climb through

Bad Air

Ever since Tuesday, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has issued red alerts for air quality due to the smoke from all the wildfires going

Dehydration

After an easy day yesterday, I went out for my last long ride before the Parker race. I wanted to try a new drink mix

Wedding in Colorado Springs

We just got back today from a short trip to Colorado Springs for the wedding of a good friend of Heather’s. We left on Friday