What a year! I paused for a moment to reflect on 2006 and am amazed at what I found. A banner year for me. A lot of big accomplishments, announcements and milestones. Here are just a few 2006 highlights: A third cyclist will be joining our family. My daughter. She’s due in April ’07 but learning that I am becoming [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! Just finished a big meal with my parents and my brother’s family here in Dallas, Texas. The weather is absolutely perfect! I should have brought my bicycle! After eating a big meal here today and with yesterday being another bad day of eating…methinks the bicycle and I will have a date on Saturday and Sunday!! Many blessings to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
…some sort of watery substance falling from the sky. Some claimed it was raining. I’m not sure I would be able to confirm or deny that. It hasn’t rained in San Antonio for quite some time. Would I recognize rain? I hear a great sight of relief coming from the lawn outside. Maybe it DID rain… Hmmm…
The special weather statement says it all… A record high temperature of 102 degrees was set at San Antonio today. This breaks the old record of 101 set in 1905. Fortunately, by the time the temperature reached 102, my Felt bicycle had been sleeping soundly in the garage for hours. That’s because we started our ride this morning bright and [...]
