“I have a bad habit of continually striving to be better at the cost of enjoying what I have achieved. I’ll try to be more mindful of that.” I wrote that recently to my coach. It was a reflection on last year and wrapping up the cyclocross season. An apology of sorts. One laced with […]
Tag: Cyclocross
Finishing the Sock Series: 2011
Test. Test. Test…. Anybody out there? Maintaining a blog might almost be as hard as finishing a whole season of Cyclocross. At least I was able to finish the Cross season. But only just. When I last wrote the season had two weeks to go and I was wondering where my Grrr had gone and […]
Sock Series: lessons learned
Grrrr Grrrr Grrrr GRrrrr I’m not sure what exactly happened. I wasn’t precisely sure that something was wrong. But I knew I felt…funny. And not in the ha-ha sense.
Art of the Holeshot
The holeshot. It’s like a unicorn carrying a pot of gold, snorting rainbows out of its nose. It’s a magic door à la Alice in Wonderland or Narnia. And it’s a small door. And if the Socks can get me through it “just so…” I’ll end up on the podium.
Sock Series: Holeshot
I sent this image taken by Jim Heuck — Six Degrees to Slush, to Tall Southern Guy and he replied, “You’re like that little bunny they send out in front of the hounds.”
Sock Series: the week off
I did something last week I haven’t done in a while. I took the week off. No cycling. No running. However, concerned that I might have a nervous break-down from going cold turkey, I did sport some tall-girl socks a few times over the weekend. Just a couple of pairs from last year’s collection that […]
Boulder Cup 2 Xilinx
A few images from Sock Series 2011 Boulder Cup 2 Xilinx. Images are courtesy of Mountain Moon Photography.
Sock Series 2011
Cyclocross season 2011 C’est arrivé, and with it my new wardrobe of socks. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Last year, in an attempt to have a new outlook on cycling and have some fun racing, with just a dash of artistic sensibility, I devised the Sock Series. There are some new twists for Sock Series […]