I’ve continued to lose weight over the last few weeks, but the final couple grams proved to be the hardest. After Waitsburg, I mentioned that I lost about 4 pounds of body weight. This put me right on my target for body fat, and I’ve maintained that very well since then.
My next step was to make some bike changes. A new fork, crankset, and saddle dropped my bike well below the UCI minimum. And, it is riding very nice right now. Body weight, check; bike setup, check; where do I look to next to drop some weight? Read more
I had to go double check my calendar before I sat down to write. I wasn’t mistaken, it is definitely June. While the bastardly conduct of O. M. Winter is well documented, I haven’t been talking about the bitchitude of spring. For weeks, I’ve had flashbacks of living in the misery of the Wet Side. Mother nature was at it again this week with an onslaught of potential misery.
Act 1 (Monday): I was turned around by snow and tree shrapnel across the road on Larch Mountain. A cold descent followed. It reminded me of getting turned around by snow on Mt. Spokane a few weeks ago. O. M. is still haunting me. Read more
