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  • The Curse of Villebois

    I should have known better. We’re racing bikes through what is left of a former insane asylum.  A few rotting concrete walls and several deadly spikes of rebar growing out of the ground here and there are the only remnants of the building that was Dammasch State Hospital, but the ghosts are out in force...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-15-2008

  • Bring it to me Angry, Baby - Cross Warmup Music

    Quote from a friend last week, “I am getting so fucking annoyed that everyone who races ‘cross can’t bring themselves to talk about anything besides fucking ‘cross!” Don’t worry. I cut him off. He’s off the friend list. At least until mid-December when I’ll...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008

  • Death to Chihuahuas: Cyclocross Animal Sacrifice Part Two

    I had to kill a bird to get the ‘cross gods to bless me with a remount. Since then my front wheel is a magnet for suicidal vermin. Squirrels dodging underneath my mud tires, looking for an easy way to end the pain of losing the backyard battle to my anti-squirrel boyfriend. The bird was one [....
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-09-2008

  • Bike Fighting: Lady is the Boss

    I’ve wanted a BMX bike for three years. Every year, I ask for one for my birthday. Last year I got a Dutch cruiser instead. This year, I spent all the allotted birthday money throwing a big-assed party. I’ve got a secret crush on BMX culture. The perfect way the boys get their boxers to show...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • Sunshine Roller, Sunday Macchiato

    Highway 30 on a long Sunday.  Sal is breaking legs in the Master B category out at Sauvie Island and I’m late.  Too late to see him finish but just in time to hear the grand retelling. The after-race part is always better anyway. My kit is Super Relax and despite the fact that it’s...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2008

  • Blinding White Joy.

    Summer morning.  Chilly track. "Natalie!  My hands are numb!" "Mine too!" Mittens in August? Heading into the third turn of the second 800 meter interval the sun powers over the top of the building to our east.  Blinding, white, glowing. We’re overexposed and unbalanced...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • A Little Baggage Doesn’t Hurt Anyone: On Packing my Suitcase of Courage

    I’m about to bite off a little more than I can chew and, you know what?  I plan to survive. Moreover - I plan to take it by storm. Tomorrow I’ll do the biggest climbing day that I’ve attempted to date.  My "normal" (read: non-cyclist) friends think it’s nuts...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008

  • From the “What Was I Thinking” Files: 126 Miles into the Wind

    At mile 34.7 Natalie Ramsland takes a monster pull on the front of our four-man group.  There are 91 miles left to ride.We are somewhere near Silverton, battling a never-ending series of rollers that threaten to end my will to live. There is no draft behind Natalie.  That is what I am thinking...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-15-2008

  • Keep Portland Glorious: 9th and Sherrett

    We have a big ride planned for tomorrow so we go out early in the morning for a short spin just to remind the muscles how to make the bike move forward. Sal opens it up on Springwater, per usual, and I suck wheel like a champ. There’s a chill to the morning, but the sky [...]
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008

  • Boulder, Colorado: Part Two

    12 hours in a conference chair and I’m at my wits end.   I have been eating Nectar Bars and apples stolen from the hotel lobby display.  Cottage cheese from the grocery store.  Baby carrots. This trip is going down on the cheap. I just tell myself it’s like I’m backpacking...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008
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