Archive for the ‘Cycling’ Category

The Tour de 20K continues

2010 was filled with a lot of new things – most of them great.  One thing it wasn’t filled with was cycling.  In fact, it was the second lowest mileage total since I started recording 28 years ago – yes, it has been awhile. I intend for 2011 to not be my greatest mileage total [...]

More Cycling Coolness – Tour Divide!

I was watching a documentary on the DOC channel called, “Ride the Divide,” about the Tour Divide race.  Being a long time fan of cycling and cycling events, I have to say that this one rocks!  Similar in mileage to the Tour de France, it has a few aspects of it that make it much [...]

Le Tour delivers as usual

This year’s Tour de France is something special.  Sure, I always think that the TdF rocks, but there is something about this 100th anniversary running that is particularly exceptional. Lance is back with a new American team.  His rival, Alberto Contador is looking stronger than ever.  Andy Schleck is tough as nails and proving it [...]

ChrisCast 03/23/2010

Chris takes a minute during a bike ride with the boys to shoot a little video.

Chris Cast 030910

0:38 On one of our bike trips we discovered Jacob’s Well Nature Area… now we delve further into the woods.

Reflections on a biking boo boo

I crashed my bike the other day – okay, crash may be a bit hyperbolic. I did have a mishap, but it was nothing serious. I was heading up a sketchy hill with a lot of loose gravel and just as I was thinking, “I should clip out,” I was on the ground before I [...]

Must be a heck of a distraction

For the first time in at least a dozen or more years, the first of the Grand Tours (cycling’s big three races) has came and nearly gone without my noticing. Usually, the Giro d’Italia is my warm-up to the Tour de France. Often the drama is more riveting and, at times, the performances are more [...]

Slowly, but surely

Posts like the previous one may be why I keep losing weight. Yes, I have dropped another pound and not sit at 216. This is the lowest in – hell, I can’t remember how long. As you may remember, when I moved to San Marcos just over a year ago, I weighed in at my [...]

Good things happening on several fronts

Seems that everything is coming up roses – well, not everything, but even those things that are lagging behind are moving in the right direction. First off the cycling. I now have less than 900 miles to log on my bike before I reach 20,000 lifetime miles. That’s kind of cool. Another thing (and one [...]

Cycle Cast 042009

For the first time, you get some video shot during the ride. I take you on a tour of the city park and some of the Texas State University campus.