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  • a love letter to my dumb bike trainer.

    We’re snow deep in winter right now, which means one thing: lots of time on the bike trainer. Teammates and friends are posting Zwift workouts, and I recently finished a 28-day bike block (my…

    02/14/2020
  • three things: april 2018

    So, April was in like a lion – two snowstorms! – and out like a lamb. Temps finally hit 80F on Monday, and wowza! I forgot what warm sunshine felt like on bare skin.…

    05/04/2018
  • focus on a single point.

    I bombed a bike test a few weeks ago – and I blamed it on Luma.  OK… she wasn’t the entire reason. I’d been all over the board that day – a bazillion meetings at…

    03/22/2018
  • PSA: cyclists are humans, too.

    It’s spring – that time of year when Minnesnowtans wake after a long dark winter spent mostly indoors. It’s also that time of year when (more fair weather) cyclists take their bikes off the…

    03/18/2016
  • on the trainer // bike testing and a workout

    There’s nothing quite like the pain on the trainer – all-out leg searing, lung burning pain – and, no more so than during a bike test. Last week was bike test week, where I…

    12/24/2014
  • on the trainer // 1:00 intervals

    It’s no secret that I love cycling. It’s my happy place… where my worries disappear, where my best ideas spark, where I feel most alive. What else I love about it: it’s (relatively) portable.…

    12/02/2014
  • on the trainer // 5:00 intervals

    My obsession with Girl Talk resumed last week. This mashup musician’s All Day mix got me through hours of intervals last winter… and, after listening during Saturday’s early morning spin before my flight to Phoenix for IMAZ,…

    11/25/2014
  • on the trainer // here we go!

    Nick and I squeezed in one last outdoor ride on November 2, just a few days before winter appeared and the temp plummeted to 17 degrees (I’m already questioning our sanity for living here…

    11/19/2014