Stronger, Fitter, Faster

Stronger

Twelve years behind a desk does things to your body. For the first time in ten years I've started hitting a gym 3x a week but that doesn't mean I can muster too many pushups just yet.

Fitter

Lose a serious amount of weight. This is definitely key to making everything else work, so I'll be focusing on dropping pounds to get not only into a healthy range of BMI, but to also increase my endurance and fitness.

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2 posts from July 2009

A Ride with George

This week my George Hincapie documentary DVD showed up and I got to watch it yesterday while flying down to San Francisco and back for a quick one-day trip. I've long been a fan of George because like him I'm a tall guy and he's always been my tall-guy-in-the-peleton favorite and he's great at the spring Classics and those are some of my favorite races to watch. I always root for him when he races and I couldn't wait to watch the film.

I'll sum up the entire review by saying I watched the whole thing on the plane ride down to SF and it was so good I re-watched the entire movie again that night on the flight home. Highly recommended if you are a fan of Big George (even if you aren't watch the trailer and you just might like it as much as I did).

(I also liked it so much I cross posted this to the Buy Local blog as well)

Posted on July 9, 2009 in product reviews | Permalink | Comments (0)

Big bet update and a new bike team

It seems that the bet described in the previous post is now officially halfway completed, and I'm happy to say that on July 1st, I weighed in at 209.8lbs, just under where I should be in order to hit 200lbs by September 1st. I also rode about 470 miles last month, the most of any month this year and I even took two trips of several days in length each. If I had stayed home all month, I'm sure I could be doing more than 600 miles per month.

On a similar note, I want to introduce a new bike team I've helped get off the ground: Buy Local Cycling. My friend Jeff came up with an idea to showcase local bike frame builders and bike products by riding custom frames with either Oregon and/or American-made products. I chipped in some seed money and we've assembled a rag-tag bunch of low-key (mostly) cyclocross riders. We're expanding the cyclocross series we launched last year and just added a brand-new Short Track Mountain Bike series around Salem, Oregon including one race in the middle of the Oregon State Fair.

It's fun and not too serious, as half the fun has been selecting bike kit designs and picking paint colors on new DeSalvo frames.

Posted on July 6, 2009 in goals | Permalink | Comments (1)