It’s been an entire week now without any cycling and I miss it dearly. Fortunately, I’ve been enjoying a Colorado vacation at Rocky Mountain National Park with my wife and we’ve been adding some mileage of our own. Hiking mileage. We’re past the 10 mile marker and have a couple more hikes before we head home. Our visit to Colorado [...]
It took three hours and twenty three minutes but on Saturday, 9/23 I was able to break my previous distance record of 46 miles and accomplished a personal goal of rolling across the 1/2 century mark. 50.87 miles to be exact. The body toll for this feat included: Sore arse (but thanks to some Assos Chamois Cream, no saddle sores! [...]
To edit a great quote from this movie… A man can be an artist…in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Marco’s art is speed. He’s about to paint his masterpiece. That he did. I joined Marco for what became another speed run of the 26 mile Helotes Loop. About 10 miles into the ride [...]
On a whim, I thought it would be neat to capture sound bites from fellow cyclists regarding their answers to two basic questions: Why do you ride? What do you like most about riding? With the help of my Olympus DS-2 digital voice recorder, I have embarked on this journey. My first “volunteers” have been family members that have also [...]
Not sure how it happened. Over 20 blog posts and not a single posting about my actual bicycle. Well, I’m about to right that wrong! In March ’06, I purchased a Felt F75 bicycle as my entry into the road biking scene. This purchase was influenced by Joel (Felt F50) and Marco (Felt F70). I decided to take the plunge [...]
No. This is not a blog post about my bike having a near-death experience. This is a blog post about a great bicycle shop that, for my good fortune, is just a couple of miles down the street. I’m talking about Bicycle Heaven. I dropped off my Felt F75 to get a quick tune-up and MS150 inspection. I also asked [...]
Garmin hosted a “You Take Us There” contest for 13 weeks which focused on customers sending in stories about how they’re using their Garmin GPS devices. On a whim, I sent in a small story about my experiences with the Garmin Edge 305HR and my cousin Joey’s use of his Garmin eTrex Legend for cycling. Lo and behold…they chose my [...]
The word century has many meanings: a unit of the Roman Army, consisting of 100 soldiers a period of 100 years Slang. a 100 dollar bill There seems to be a trend in all of these definitions. They all include the number 100. In the cycling world, you guessed it, a century is a bike ride of 100 miles. It’s [...]
HP5 : (noun) – a bicycle route of 5 miles within the town of Hollywood Park characterized by streets free of traffic, several white-tailed deer and one heart pounding hill “by the swimming pool.” It’s official! The Moore Family bicycle ride is back on after a brief hiatus. I joined wife Shannon, nephew Tanner (who named the route), brother-in-law David [...]
Thursday evening I joined Team Felt leader Marco Villarreal for what became a record setting, high-intensity bike ride on the famed “Helotes Loop” in Northwest San Antonio. I say high-intensity because in the one hour and thirty-one minutes of actual ride time, a full 50 minutes were spent in my target heart rate zone and another 23 in the dreaded [...]
