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• Get Up, Get Up, Get On It

  Do you feel that? It’s a lull. It’s a big-assed lull. It’s like the holidays hit and then passed and then dried up and now we’re here with this wind and that flooding. I wake up in the middle of the night and there is a bar room... Posted Jan 07 2009, 11:04 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cycling, fitness, bikes, training, life, glimmers

• Snow, Bikes, Whiskey

  Daniel Wakefield Pasley has a three-inch icicle hanging from the bill of his cycling cap. Really. I wish I was kidding. Actually, I wish that it was my icicle. On my cap. Daniel is the umpteenth person that Sal and I run into while making our way across... Posted Dec 21 2008, 10:03 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• Pow Pow Power Training: Coming to a Bike Near You

  On Going to the Dark Side Power training? Really? Yep, really. There are forces at battle within me. The emotional side of me loves the uncalculated, un-analyzed raw execution of sport: we are not equations and we should not be reduced to a set of numbers... Posted Dec 17 2008, 11:45 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• Boot Camp Diary Archives: Day Three - Molly on the Mountain

  I’m a bit behind posting boot camp diary entries publicly, but I’ve been keeping them tucked away for a winter day and I’m pretty sure that tonight qualifies… brrrr. Molly finished her ascent to applause and cheering. She was the... Posted Dec 16 2008, 11:14 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness, motivation, adventure, boot_camp

• Boot Camp Diary: Day 2 - Fun’s Over

  I am going to write this now, while I can still type. Because I’m pretty sure that tomorrow morning I will wake up unable to move my arms or use my trunk to get out of bed. Sal will have to spoon feed me my daily quota of broccoli and grilled chicken... Posted Dec 03 2008, 02:09 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness, wellness, boot_camp

• The Cyclist Returns to Boot Camp

  I spent most of 2007 waking up between 4:30 and 5:10am and heading off to Portland Adventure Bootcamp. I’d found the program by doing an internet search after hearing about the concept from a midwestern cyclocrosser. When I went that January, I... Posted Dec 01 2008, 11:41 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness, life, boot_camp

• Saved by the Wheel: This Sunday’s Column in the Oregonian

  The online version of this Sunday’s column is already up over at Oregon Live. If you get the paper and want to check out the print version, it will run in tomorrow’s edition in the Outdoors section, which is in Travel. Regular readers with... Posted Nov 22 2008, 04:11 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• The Party’s Over

  My approach is all backwards, but my standard M.O. is to party all ‘cross season and then suddenly dig my heels in and bring the whole overindulgence thing to a screeching halt. I tend to be all-in or all-out. It’s one or the other. People... Posted Nov 22 2008, 03:29 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: cycling, cyclocross, fitness, food, diet, nutrition, bikes, training, health

• That Course Was Bullshit: The Race Report is Up

  Nothing like a little Fecal Cyclocross to close out the Crusade, eh? As a self-proclaimed mud connoisseur, I’m going to proclaim the Hillsboro Crap Corral officially disgusting. Yet strangely intriguing. Earthy, piquant, and ripe. This week’s... Posted Nov 17 2008, 09:54 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• What’s That in Your Mouth?

  Cyclocross season is party time for me. Beer, bikes, babes and whiskey. It’s my favorite time of the year. I love it. But all that partying really takes a toll, man. I’m tired! And I look like hell! And Sal has started calling me “Janice”... Posted Nov 14 2008, 12:38 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness, eating, food, nutrition

• Still Smiling

  Image courtesy of pdxcross.com. (PS: If you’re actively refreshing pdxcross.com looking for the Barton Park set, a little birdie told me that it will be up in about 2-3 hours, so sit tight!) Yesterday was by far my worst race yet. What can you do... Posted Nov 03 2008, 10:38 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• Halloween Cross Race Report: Just in Time!

  October 31st and the race report is finally up over at the Wend Magazine Blog. Enjoy and Happy Goblins! We’ll see you at the rock quarry - wa hoo! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog.com%2F2008%2F10%2F31%2Fhalloween-cross-race-report... Posted Nov 01 2008, 12:58 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• Rain! Halloween! Links! Video!

  Rain! Mud! It’s coming, it’s coming! I’ve been so patient - haven’t I? I have. Therefore I deserve for Barton Park to be downright miserable. Please, skies, keep dumping! It’s been a goat rodeo over here at Everyday Athlete... Posted Oct 31 2008, 11:16 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• Cross Vegas: Beer and Bunnyhopping Big Boys

  Lights, cameras, beer! What a show. We rolled with an impossibly crazy posse, crashed the VIP area (thanks, Brad!), stole flats of beer, made Flava-Flav style necklaces out of stolen objects, and heckled Mr. Armstrong. Most memorable? Lance comes down... Posted Sep 27 2008, 01:58 PM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness

• Meet My New Boyfriend: The Wilier Cento

  90-something degrees and dusty as hell. Bootleg Canyon, Nevada. Bikes, bikes, and more bikes. The Interbike Outdoor Demo - a gearheads veritable Cycling Disneyland. Sal bounced up and down appropriately and we spent the day riding bikes that begged us... Posted Sep 24 2008, 11:37 AM by The Everyday Athlete Filed under: fitness