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I Found Dry Dirt
With the exception of grocery runs, and little spins on the bike around the neighborhood, we haven’t really left the house in weeks (except for scouting missions to my favorite early/and late season dirt roads). Tuesday, we struck gold. Dry dirt. We also saw our first...
Storm Weathering 101: Managing Expectations
Here’s a little excerpt from Be Audacious about the art of managing expectations while weathering the storm, which feels apropos during this time of upheaval and uncertainty. Manage Expectations ‘Don’t put pressure on yourself to always be productive. If you just got...
BikeErg: My New Go To Training Tool For the Mountain Bike
During these times where daily rituals and routines are being disrupted for many (especially for all of us gym rats), I wanted to plug my favorite company in the fitness world: Concept 2. I’ve fallen hard for the SkiErg (thank you Amy Pakula at Momentum Physical...
Sometimes, It Really Is About The Bike
I’d just been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis when I first read Lance’s book (Armstrong). It was back in 2000 and I was on a mountain bike trip to Durango, Colorado. It’s Not About the Bike. But for some of us, it really is. Like one of my favorite American...
Keep Pushing Pedals
Climb big and keep pushing pedals (or keep pushing whatever it is that brings you joy). This was my last climb of 2019, an Indian Summer day on the 25th of October here in Southwestern Montana (on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route). Winter locked in the next...
A Letter to My 2020 Angler Of The Year
Dear Huck, I promise I'll pull this down after you go to bed and have a time to read it. It sounds like you and your dad shared a special day in Ennis, yesterday. It also sounds like the fishing was tough. I wanted to take some time to write you a letter, because I'm...
COVID Chronicles: Shut It Down
So, let me get this straight. My friend just shut down her spin studio; restaurants nationwide are closing; the tourism industry is all but frozen for the foreseeable future; gyms are shutting their doors (all doing the socially responsible thing). We’ve all heard it....
Turning the Focus
I know there’s a lot of uncertainty out there right now and everyone’s circumstances are different (and many will feel the fallout from this more than others), but that’s why perspective is so important. So much of life is out of our control, so many of our...
Daddy/daughter
I love this picture from my TEDx talk The Healing Power of Rituals and Routines. I’m a big believer in the power of the word and so I began writing my daughter lunch notes in 2nd grade and it’s something I still do today. Every note ends the same, "Love, Dad." ...
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