the mama trail

You know that somewhat silly bumper sticker that says, “If you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention,”? Here, pay attention. Buy or rent the dvd.

I guess retired bike racers are FreeRiders in more than one sense of the word. I done got me a big bike. It looks something like this. And I look something like this riding it. Sure I do. But I did clean the crux move on Pickle last week […]

This is definitely not what I thought I would be writing about today. But that stuff can wait.
I was profoundly saddened to open my email this morning and see one titled “Mike Janelle Memorial”. Many people in Arizona will remember Mike as the Tokyo Joe’s racer with the permanent smile that […]

Yesterday Troy and I took about 11 hours to PEE. Whew! That was long! But what a ride: from Bethany Home Rd. and 25th Ave, through the Phx Mtns, up to Reach 11, over to the McDowells, up and around and up again, down south to the Cross Cut Canal, then back […]

I can’t believe it has taken me this long to write about the second part of our trip to Hawaii, the vacation part.
Troy took 80 bazillion amazing photographs, but I’ll just post a few I promise.
After the race, it was time to do some serious vacating. As any Hawaiian holiday should, it started […]

I went in to 2007 a freshly retired mountain bike racer with the intention of dabbling in off road triathlon as sort of a transitional thing because (crazily) I love training, I had wanted to try it out for years, and my driven nature doesn’t let me stand idly by for long without the need […]