Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Time to total up my bicycle mileage for 2010, reflect on this past year and set my sights on all that next year – 2011 – may bring. Mileage Totals: Commuting: 1,323 (biking to/from work) Training: 481 (preparing for cycling events/races) Fitness: 289 (general fitness rides) Recreation: 64 (family rides – fun focused, green [...]

Happy New Year! Time to reflect on my year-end total mileage and key milestones for 2009 (thanks to Garmin Connect which lets me track all of this).  It has been an incredible year for my cycling!  Here are some mileage totals and some key events that made 2009 an amazing journey on two wheels. Mileage Totals: Commuting: 2,118  (biking to [...]

…that’s the question my mountain bike asked when I freed it from being pinned in by trash cans in a rear corner of my garage. You see, it’s been quite some time since I’ve hopped on my 2005 Gary Fisher Tassajara mountain bike – probably a good two years for sure. But tomorrow and Thursday it will be a faithful [...]

Happy New Year! Being a Bike Geek has its advantages. Since all of the information from my rides is captured on my Garmin Edge GPS cycling computer and uploaded to Motionbased.com, it takes just a few seconds to see what my total 2007 stats turned out to be. Here are the numbers! I cycled 1,072.15 miles and climbed a total [...]

My mountain bike is happy. Just yesterday morning I walked towards my two bikes in the garage. My Felt F75 seemed to almost roll forward in anticipation of another 20-50 mile road bike ride. But imagine its disappointment when my hands grasped the handlebars of my Tassajara. It was time to hit the trail. Not just any trail either. The [...]

“Hi! I’m not sure how long I’m going to last out here but…” “Sir, you do know the park closes at 5pm today for the hunt.” The hunt? This was my two seconds of confusion while passing through the visitor station at Guadalupe River State Park at around 3:45pm this past Sunday. I’d decided to grab the mountain bike and [...]