Cresting the Summit The hardest part of cycling is never the last 100 yards, it's the first couple steps to get ready and head out the door. One of the things I've learned about myself is I'm able to come up with just about any and every
Mountain Biking Mountain Biking Routes Like the challenges of road cycling, Mountain Biking routes can also be hard to navigate. Especially some of the better single track can be near impossible to navigate without a guide. Where are the water stops, what's the difficulty level of the trail, etc. Unfortunately our local riding
Road Cycling Routes One of the things I seem to be constantly searching for is the best cycling route while I'm in a new place. As a road cyclist, the challenge is finding a road that cars won't run you over on (at least lower risk), but yet is
Budget Budget vs Quicken For years I solely used Quicken or the likes. It's pretty convenient, it downloads all your transactions from your bank, credit cards even investment accounts and let's you know balances and where the money went. I did this for years, every week updating and tracking all
Road Cycling Undershirts & Caps for Cycling For probably the first year of road cycling, I would deal with all sorts of weird issues. For example my bibs (you need these if you road cycle, I don't care how uncool they feel or look) would sometimes irritate my. It felt like I had a tag
Why Start A Blog So why start a blog? The simple answer, to give the details. You see, I like many others, search google for answers to questions. The problem is, we don't always know all the questions to ask or even the existence of a question. If I can help one
Nipple Chafing The details of Running There are all sorts of things you learn when you try doing something yourself for the first time. Take for example the first few times I went jogging. You put some shoes on, I even bought some nice jogging shoes, and headed out the door. I've exercised enough
Cycing Push to Turn I always thought I knew how to turn a bike. I mean, you learn so young it's practically instinctive. Yet, it wasn't until I finally took a 1 day lesson down in the Santa Cruz mountains with a mountain bike coach, Lee McCormack, that I really
leadership It's Good Enough As a perfectionist, to many of the times, I tend to not start a project because it just won't be good enough. In the past, I couldn't stand the thought of doing anything just good enough. It's the thought of settling that really gets
personal growth Featured Log It or Dodge It Computers do this all the time, record everything that's going on. It becomes really useful when you are trying to find out about that recent TeamViewer hack (yes they got me too). You can see all the places they went and spent your hard earned money. It'
personal growth The Enemy of Fear It's dark and what may have been peaceful sounds of crickets and birds, now become creepy and invoke fear as night settles in and your loneliness of the unknown surrounds you. Fear is typical when we don't have knowledge. We may feel fear when we start
Starting The Blog A quick post to go through my blog starting experience. I spent 7 hours today battling to setup my own hardware server to host my new blog. I'll go into it more later, but the attempt was more complex than ever needed. Take an older Windows server box,
