Archive for June, 2006

Motivation Question, Round 2

Friday, June 30th, 2006

My triathlete friend Travis wrote in with this question:
I have had a hard time with my past couple of long races and am getting pretty burnt out at this point in the season. How do you get your spark back midseason? Will I get my spark back in the off season?
I answered […]

Driving to Deer Valley??

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Is anyone out there driving to the Deer Valley race, then back to Flagstaff, Phoenix, or Tucson afterwards? Troy and I are trying to find him a ride home after the Deer Valley race since I will be continuing on to Sonoma straight away. If you could give him a lift home, he […]

World Cup racing and Getting Home

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

I finally made it home. It was kind of an epic journey to get here. Here is a quick recap: leave MSA at 4:30 pm on Sunday after the race (after wrestling with my pedals for at least 45 minutes trying to pack my bike), drive 5 hours, asleep by midnight, up by […]

Day Before the Race

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Last night we went to Quebec City to have some dinner and check out the Citadel. Little did we know that it was St Jean Baptiste Day. It couldn`t have been a better day to visit Quebec. The Quebecois are to Canada what the the Basque are to Spain. Everyone (literally, […]

Mt St Anne

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Sweet, they have a free internet connection right at the venue! I rode 3 laps on the World Cup course yesterday. It is not nearly as technical as it was 2 years ago when I was here. Still plenty of tricky things out there, but a lot of straightforward singletrack.
Wednesday […]

Vermont

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

I guess this will serve as both my official race report from Vermont and an update of my travels. Sorry for not posting some of those comments right away, but I have finally found an internet connection here in Baie St Paul, Quebec. BSP is about an hour north of Quebec City and […]