6:00am – Southern Kettles – “…slight chance of rain in the early morning…” Right.  How about 100% chance of a monsoon.  I had plans to ride the Bluemound trails outside of Madison today with a friend, but he bailed.  So I thought I’d take a nice long solo tour of the Kettles.  A chance of…

No work today, taking the kids to the Dells for the next 2 days.  Got the day started off right with the virgin ride on the single speed I cobbled together out of a 20-year-old Cannondale.  did 10 miles to the WAC, taught SPIN and 10 miles back.  I forgot I sold my chain tensioner…

I feel like a turd this morning.  Hung out with (non-cycling) friends all weekend and ate and drank.  Fun. Not really.  One party like that goes a long way. Now I feel like I haven’t moved in eons. Riding to teach SPIN tomorrow @ 6am, then riding home and heading to the Dells with my…

Today was supposed to be an off day.  Then my friend Kevin, who I haven’t ridden with since the Trek 100 last year, sent me an email about riding this morning.  OK, a nice easy recovery ride… 60 miles of Holy Hill Lake Country roads later at 19.7 mph, I was done.  And it was…

Did the Thursday morning Puker today.  Felt great, no rest for me – did 3 laps while the other riders took a break.  We were only going at 75%, so it was a great start to the day.  Found out my Blackberry GPS app, which I’ve used to record most of my 2010 mileage with,…

Teaching a 2 hour class once a month at 5:30am seemed like a great idea a year and a half ago.  I do get a good workout, but on mornings like this when it’s 75 and sunny, it is torture spinning on a fake bike in a dark basement for 2 hours when I could…

Was supposed to ride with a new North Shore group this morning @ 5:15, so I set my alarm for 4;15 and then forgot to turn it on. Woke up at 5:05 – too late to drive 30 miles to the ride in 10 minutes, so I did a solo Lake Country route: Brookfield out…