Fit Skiing with the Help of Andrew Hooge!
I frequently refer to the website Fit Skiing by Andrew Hooge for ideas on exercise to help me get ready for the ski season and you should too! Fit Skiing — Good for Skiers Fit Skiing offers a large...
View ArticleFitness is a Pincer Attack!
Fitness is a pincer attack! Many people try to exercise their way to health and ignore their diets or diet their way to health and ignore exercise. Like a full on frontal assault you can achieve your...
View ArticleAccountability for your Health Goals
What do you do to ensure accountability for your health goals? Or do you keep it quiet so you do not have to face failure in front of others? Accountability for your Health Goals — Let Others Know Let...
View ArticleSki TrailMaps by Todd Schmalhurst &mdash A Mobile App Review
I have reviewed a couple of mobile device apps already here, both having incidental relevance to skiing. Today’s review is the first one on an app dedicated to skiing and snowboarding. This app is Todd...
View ArticleDraco Snows the Path
More before and after photos from snow storm Draco. This set of photographs I took along a pathway I often walk during my lunch breaks. I could sit on my tail or get some walking and exercise in. I...
View ArticleLearn from Crossfit
I first became aware of the Crossfit training program about a one year ago and it immediately intrigued myself. I wrestled in high school and in my last year our coaches took a mixed approach to our...
View ArticleEndomondo for Downhill Skiing
I finally used Endomondo while skiing and the results are okay, but not great. Endomondo for Downhill Skiing — Its Usual Strengths In my recent review of the Endomondo app I expressed satisfaction with...
View ArticleLance Armstrong and His Fall
Lance Armstrong has finally admitted to using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) during the peak of his professional bicycle competition days. I know many are gleeful to see this day . I disagree with...
View ArticleLoseIt Fitness App Review Reach Your Fitness Goals!
Every year many of us resolve to get our weight down and our fitness level up. To help with those goals we join gyms, subscribe to food services, and purchase equipment. One piece of gear I find...
View ArticleThe Return of Sunshine!
I walked out of the office today and what did I see? It was peaking over the Western horizon but it was there like I have not seen for sometime. That thing was either under the horizon or it was...
View ArticleTransition from Skiing to Biking
The season is rapidly moving from being my favorite time of the year to the least favorite time. The time between the end of ski season and the start of the warm season. The weather goes from bluebird...
View ArticleThe Weight and Losing It
Losing the weight is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions out there. The problem is the enthusiasm wears off and we revert to old habits and decide losing weight is too difficult. The problem...
View ArticleReview of Energy Chews
Bicycling is another passion of mine. One that has gone beyond being a penance for years of overindulging in food and drink and lack of physical activity. Now I bicycle as much for the challenge of...
View ArticleHoney Stingers a Review
In my last WheelWednesday posting I discussed the use of energy chews in helping to increase bicycling performance. There are many brands to choose from and in this series I hope to give you an idea of...
View ArticleTour De France Highlights
So far in this Tour De France I have four clips I remember. Tour de France — The Dog Towards the end of the second stage as the peloton was getting near the finish a dog had run onto the road. The dog...
View Article#LETTEDRIDE Why? Ted King’s Tour De France Disqualification
There is a small controversy swirling around the Tour De France discussion groups (see hash tags #TDF and #LETTEDRIDE) regarding the disqualification of Ted King from further participation in the Tour...
View ArticleRiding to Freedom!
Today, I spent about three hours Riding to Freedom and back. This was an important step for myself, first to get my distance up (both single ride and cumulative) and the next step is to ride to my...
View ArticleYesterday’s Bicycle Excitement — Shebonk!
Yesterday, my wife urgently summoned me upstairs to see something. When I got upstairs and looked out the kitchen window there was the rescue squad in front of our neighbor’s house and I spotted two...
View ArticleThe Tour De France is Over
This year’s Tour De France is over. Nothing for me to watch until the Vuelta a Espana the last of the grand bike races for this year. The Tour De France is Over — Team Sky A Team Sky rider takes the...
View ArticleBicyclist Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter
Most of the stories mixing up manslaughter and bicycling involve the motorist killing the biker, however, in San Francisco a bicyclist recently plead guilty to manslaughter, he collided with a...
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