Having Situational Awareness is Critical Lightning struck nearby and I fell off the bike into a cactus. I had gone riding in Sedona earlier in the day and the weather report called for a perfect day of sunshine and scattered clouds. I had ridden about 15 miles and was finishing up on [...]
When You're Riding Through Mud, Keep Your Mouth Shut I have always liked playing in the mud. One of the things I really like about mountain biking is that it is so much fun to hurtle yourself down a small trail between the trees. Even more fun is when there are mud [...]
You Can Go Faster and Further With a Team I was on a forty-mile road bike ride and was struggling. I was riding alone and the hills were killing me. My average speed was only 15 mph so it should have been a leisurely ride. My legs and lungs were telling me [...]
Keep Your Eyes On Where You Want to Go You're riding down a mountain bike trail and up ahead in the middle of the trail is a big rock. What do you do? Your natural tendency is to focus on the rock to make sure you get around it. Don't do it! [...]
When You Reach the Top of a Hill, Don't Coast Hills are my nemesis. When I started getting into cycling more seriously and thought that I was beginning to get good at it, the hills brought me back to reality. I’m not sure what it is about hills that get my goat, [...]
When You Come to a Bridge Get Ready for the Uphill Every mountain bike trail that I have ridden includes at least one bridge to get over. Think about bridges for a second. What are they there for? Bridges are built to help us get over a stream or a gulley. Streams [...]
You Get What You Focus On Part of the problem in learning to ride the trails on a mountain bike is that it is natural for you to want to focus on every tree stump, rock, log, and puddle you come across. Your brain thinks it has to focus on the obstacle [...]
Things Aren't as Big as They First Appear “That’s what she said” - Michael Scott Sorry, couldn’t stop myself. The first time I went mountain biking was epic. I had been road biking for a couple of years when my nephew, Randy, invited me to go on a ride with him and [...]
I've just finished a seven-part series reviewing the non-fiction books I read in 2017. You can read those posts by following these links: Part One - The Millionaire Booklet and Finish Part Two - The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and DOTCOM Secrets Part Three - Smarter, Faster, Better and The Coaching Habit Part Four [...]
Wow! This has been a long journey to get through a review of the books I read in 2017. I've probably gone overboard in the review process, but it has been a good exercise for me. I don't know about you, but often times after I read a book, I tend to forget most of [...]