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Rest Week Activity 05-13-2012

All over but the resting. Had a good week off, got in some quality active recoveration. Slept. Ate too much. Drank too much once. Rode my mountain bike on trails for the first time this year! The Chequamegon 100 will fall to the forces of the 30¢ Squad! Hills recovery ride […]

Cramming 05-08-2012

Another good week of riding behind me as the Cheq 100 gets ever closer in front of me. Got a couple of hours of recovery on the townie on Monday, then a couple of good rides during the week. Sharon Center by gpickle at Garmin Connect – Details. Morning Solon by gpickle […]

2 Month Warning 04-30-2012

Last week it dawned on me that the Chequamegon 100 was now 2 months away. Time to get off my ass and start riding! So I put in a pretty good week on the bike last week. For me at least. Got out everyday for 10 days now. Intervals. Recovery. Tempo. LSD. Headwind. Rain. Warm. […]

Here We Go 02-27-2012

Lots to report! I finally rode my new cross bike. Built it up last fall SRAM Red 1×10 with lots of stuff I would normally never ride. Like a carbon BB30 crankset, really expensive brakes that work just about as well as the much cheaper kind, and a SRAM Red drivetrain. […]

Going Commando 02-13-2012

Not much riding last week. I did get out last evening for an hour. I had the hiccups for the first half of the ride. Sunday evening stroll with hiccups by gpickle at Garmin Connect – Details. There were a couple of other outings, but I just kept not getting time to […]

Weeklong Garmin Dump 02-07-2012

Peterson’s Scrap Metal Xtracycle Trip by gpickle at Garmin Connect – Details. I took a ride on the Xtracycle to take shop salvage aluminum to the scrap yard. 86lbs! Never the most fun task, it always feels good to get it done. Disaster almost struck, I thought […]

50 degrees @ 9am 01-31-2012

Another beautiful morning in Iowa, another ride for Steve.  3 days in a row! Morning commute lemond ss by gpickle at Garmin Connect – Details. I took the LeMond ss this morning, and left the gps on for the whole ride. The first stop is when I bumped into neighbor […]

Back in the saddle again 01-30-2012

Finally something to share on the old blog! It has been a long dry spell of riding for me. I continue to deal with some weird tendon issue in my lower right leg. I have been seeing a massage therapist and he is perplexed, so we are trying the old take a whole bottle of ibuprofin […]

Two Rides 12-01-2011

Nothing like a reborn bike to get me off me mudflaps!  Took the Lemond out for a quick spin last night and it is holy-schmoly fast, I got afraid a couple of times I was going to pile into the back of a car or something. 1st ride LeMond SS by gpickle at Garmin Connect – […]

An Explanation 11-30-2011

So I have fallen off the weblogging wagon again.  Or is it that I got on the wagon again?  These are the sorts of grand thoughts having a blog leads to.  Blogold my ass! Here’s the situation.  I have not ridden the last couple of weeks.  Or however long it has […]