Wednesday, February 28, 2007

STL Biking Message Board

Over the past few years I've surfed to the message board on cycling in St. Louis. I've met lots of nice people as a result. I don't think you can really know too much about a person based a what they type on a message board, but I enjoy it.

What is really weird is when you meet someone that you know from their fake, on line persona, and they are so different from what you'd imagined. My usual thought is that the real person is totally normal, better than their made up personality. Same goes with blogs for that matter.

Plato's cave.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Actual Riding

February riding is my most out of shape time of year. I could really tell it when I did some climbing at Castlewood and the Chubb this weekend.

The trails were in great shape, very fast due to the cold. I need to bump my riding hours up to over 12 hours a week pretty soon.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Winter Blues

Winter is the worst. Work is crazy busy. The band is dormant. The only workout if at the Y. A 30 minute ride on the trainer feels like 2 hours.

The past few years I did a lot of cold weather mountain biking, but even that doesn't sound like fun. Froze Toes is just a couple of weeks away. If it's this cold, forget it.

Everybody's in the same boat, so that helps keep me going.