March was the first month that it’s stayed somewhat consistently above zero – As such, most of the snow disappeared (albeit fleetingly), and it marked the first *real* ride back on the road. After months on the trainer in the garage getting outside was glorious. I didn’t have time for a long ride, just a [...]

April! What! First off, how did it get to be April already? This is the 4 month countdown to TRC. Yikes! Well, the big upside is, it’s time to get OUTSIDE. Here in Edmonton the weather is mild (+6 to +10) midday, and the snow is almost just a fond memory. Although I think it [...]

Because I’m not the biggest fan of sitting on the trainer for hours, I’ve been using intervals during the week for most of the new year and leaving my LSD (lond-steady-distance) rides for the weekend (when is this snow going to disappear!?). I like them mainly because an hour or so seems to fly by [...]

Ken sent me a link the other day to the Specialized site and this video, with the comment, “what I wouldn’t give to be a pro rider…” This is the first of a new series of Bikeridr posts called, “Just Cuz’ It’s Cool”, which will be a random smattering of nifty bike goodness. How fun [...]

For the last while, though I’ve been trying to stay motivated and keep up with my training rides and push myself, I haven’t felt like I have a good sense of where my fitness is, or if it’s headed in the right direction quickly enough. Sure I feel like my training has improved my fitness [...]

If you can’t use your own blog to tell the world about your birthday wishes, then really? What’s the point? I just thought I’d let the masses out there know that if they like they can buy me a BMC Fourstroke for my birthday… This bike is all types of gorgeous! Glossy red, matte black [...]

Rollin’ with breakless, the gearless and, oooooh yeah, the fearless… As an XC rider, generally, I like the idea of more gears. When they came out with an 18 speed, I traded in my 10 speed. Then when they came out with a 21 speed, I naturally upgraded again. To me, having multiple gear choices [...]

As I mentioned in my January diary entry I’ve been part of some testing with the Human Performance Lab at the UofC over the past 6 weeks or so. It wasn’t something that I had set out planning to do, more-so something that just fell into my lap. I had been chatting with my wife (Kerstin) about potentially [...]

For me this month was mainly about settling into a groove, and for the most part I was successful. Overall, everything went exactly to plan – I was on the bike 3-4 times a week: 3 interval/threshold rides and one ‘longer’ ride. In light of this steady volume on the bike I decided to toss one [...]

In a word,“pffft”… February was not a stellar training month for me – not even close… It began with me discovering first-hand what ‘overtraining’ does to you. January had been a big month, and although at the time I thought I hadn’t pushed things too far, by the end of the first week of Feb [...]