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Thanks For Thanksgiving

Once a year comes a day when we are specifically reminded to give thanks (at least in the United States). Hopefully most of you out there are thankful more than once a year, but if that’s all you can manage then it’s better than nothing. I want to take a minute to list in no particular order some things I personally am thankful for.

  • My beautiful wife

Feeling The Burn

It was a typical day in a typical year, and I was out mountain biking with my friends Moe and Jatt. It had been a good day; we got a lot of riding done in a short amount of time. It was Sunday evening so we couldn’t ride for more than a few hours seeing as we all had work the next day. During a breather about half way through…

More Than I Could Chew

Several weeks ago I wrote a post about racing my mountain bike in the pro division of a local race, the Beezley Burn. Growing up, I heard the phrase “Don’t bite off more than you can chew” countless times. I received a firsthand lesson in this phrase over the past weekend.

The race was actually a two day event, with a short half hour sprint…

The Challenge

Can an ordinary guy compete with professionals at a not so ordinary level? That is the challenge I have put myself to for the month of April 2010. I intend to compete with professionals in a mountain bike race at the end of the month. Why would I inflict this pain upon myself? Because I want to. I want to prove…

Ft. Ebey Frustration

Sunday rolled into action which made it time for a mountain bike race on Whidbey Island, an island in Puget Sound in the great state of Washington. Once again the event was part of the Singletrack Cycles West Side Mountain Bike series presented by BUDU racing. The race took place at Ft. Ebey State park. The fort was build to protect against Japanese invasion during World…