Archive for May, 2010

Mountain Living article

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

Check out the cover article of Flagstaff’s own Mountain Living Magazine for McKenna’s first mention in a magazine! Only 21 months old and already in magazine articles about mountain biking. She is so above average Now, if she could just stop pronouncing the word “magazine” as “moss-oo-meen”…
Looks like the online […]

First 10k of the year

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Apart from the Mt Taylor Quadathlon, I did my first race of the year on Saturday. It was a 10k (well, my Garmin showed just 5.92 miles, so either the course is a little short or gps’s aren’t always exact in their measurements). In a nutshell, nothing really went wrong, but I just […]

3 Sprouts!

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

This morning I went in to the backyard to water my first-ever veggie garden, and lo and behold there was a spinach sprout! A few hours later I checked on the garden again and there was another spinach sprout just pushing through the dirt as well as a teeny lettuce sprout. It was […]

Metaphoring

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

While I was riding my mountain bike in a snowstorm the other day, my mind started flooding with metaphors between Motherhood and Mountain Biking:
*If things are getting rocky and loose or you find yourself losing traction, get off the brakes.
*Always keep your eyes and head up; don’t get mesmerized by your front wheel.
*It is […]