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70.3 Ironman Steelhead The Road Back To Triathlon As for many of us, the last few years have challenged the chasing of our extracurricular activities. We are a manic bunch who have mental issues unless we have a race(s) on the calendar. For me, if I don’t have a race I am a training slacker….
The quintessential and epic Tioga Pass climb.
The Final Climb To Conquer The 10 Hardest Cycling Climbs In California
Even car eating Marmots couldn’t stop me.
The Hack-bbatical 2021 begins with #4 hardest cycling climb in California. Suffer, renew, repeat.
Finally feeling like part of the Team Zoot after the package arrived yesterday! Might need to shed a few of those COVID pounds to squeeze into them, but I’m sure with more activity it is achievable. I feel that I simply have a layer or two with the triathlon base beneath it.
Not the elite team of course, but got the invite today to join Team Zoot today! Looking forward to representing Zoot at Ironman California next year and maybe a few others if things open up.
It’s official. Seeing if I can complete my goal of completing at least 3 Ironmans! October 24th, 2021 in Sacramento it should be safe to race so game on! I am putting a lot of Trust in Ironman. There are no published routes, no athlete guide yet, nor is there any kind of published schedule…
Finally got around to commemorating the summer 100,000ft 8 week sufferfest by mounting the belt buckle and adding another sticker to the Outback. Thanks for the fun challenge Leadville Race Series!
Not one to deterred, I set out to do 5 of the top 10 hardest climbs on this vacation and that is what I am going to do. Since I came home a day early, I decided to clip off #7 the Nate Harrison Grade on Palomar Mountain. It was in my backyard and I…
Today was to be the day I would head back into Sequoia to climb the #8 hardest climb in California called Mineral King. However, I went to bed last night to news footage of some of the worst fires in California ever. Even though there were not any fires where I was going to ride,…
If you are a reader of this blog, the obvious question is: “Where did day 4 go?” Good question. I have a good answer. The last two days were climbing on the Eastern Sierras. I ran out of climbs in the top 10. So, on day 4 it took all day to drive through Yosemite…
This morning I woke up in my campground on a Monday just outside of Bishop. The weekend crowds were gone, it was quiet, and I was all to myself in the area set aside for tents. Sure, the RV crowd was sparsely populating the full hook up pads, but I was almost the lone tent…
6:15 am. I roll into the town of Big Pine just before daybreak. Let’s just say it’s a one dog town and I don’t see any dogs. As usual at this time in the morning parking options are plentiful. I strategically pick a space under a big oak tree behind the Copper Top BBQ for…
Of course, I had to pick the hottest week of the year for this trip in one of the hottest areas of California on the Eastern side of the Sierras. That meant getting up to arrive in Independence while it was still dark and beginning the climb as the sun rose. Upon daybreak, it was…
The countdown reads one…one day…24 hours…1440 minutes…86,400 seconds…
It’s almost here…..
Stay tuned. It’s that time of year again…the Hack-bbatical! My way of doing a sabbatical starts this Friday!
Leadville 100,000ft Challenge weeks start on Saturdays. So, I decided to go big and get a head of the game. In Northern San Diego that can only mean climbing Palomar Mountain. I climbed it a few weeks ago, but not all of it. On this day, I took it all in. I started up the…
This is my kind of challenge. Climbing! I love to climb on my bike. Don’t know why. I loved training to climb in France and loved climbing the classic mountains of the Tour de France in 2016 even more. (See blog at Climbing France For CAF) The Leadville 100,000ft Challenge was made for me. I…
Woohoo! I’m in! During this COVID pandemic, all the rage is virtual races for us itchy endurance racers with nowhere to race. None have interested me to date until now. I was very bummed that Leadville MTB 100 was canceled after I was lucky enough to get in through the lottery. I had to cancel…
Old West Trails 50K canceled! Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon canceled! Giro di San Diego Gran Fondo canceled! Pacific Endurance Festival canceled! Leadville MTB Canceled! 2020 canceled! Criminy! This situation is not one I am comfortable with. Without a near term goal, I languish. I get lazy. I get lost. I literally stare at the…
The gym is closed. No one knows when it will open. I am cheap. I sold my home gym stuff years ago and can’t bring myself to buy new or even used equipment. Plus, who knows if you could even find any right now. Home gym equipment has never seen sales this good as everyone…
Uh oh! I got what I asked for. I signed up for the third year in a row and actually got an entry this time into the famous Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race! It’s 100 miles across the high-altitude, extreme terrain of the Colorado Rockies starting at 10,152 feet and climbing to 12,424 feet on…
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