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Lookout, Dan’s calves have been known to eat small children.
Thanks to Sugoi, Huang Design and PhotoFX for helping us look so good!

Vacation can mean a lot of things. I guess the last 5 days weren’t ever called a “vacation” from the onset, but rather a “break.” Changing it up a bit this year, I only took about 12 days off between closing out last season and training for this coming season, so Neal thought it’d be [...]

Well here is the report, short and sweet because one handed typing is way too much fun to want to go on for hours. 
Sunday i went down to race the DU criterium in Denver.  The pace started out fast and the course was technical.  Half the field was ready for the race and the other [...]

Yesterday, Vince, Ryan and myself departed on a proposed ride that sounded….well, it sounded like we weren’t actually going to finish it. 131 miles: riding the gateway group ride that leaves Saturday mornings at 10am over the top of Carter Lake, down the backside and heading north to Hwy 34 - Big Thompson Canyon. From [...]

    You know about THAT guy. The one who sort of invites himself everywhere. THAT guy on our team is Dan Porter.

I don’t think he’s even on the team, but he just keeps showing up to meetings and rides and no one has the heart to tell him to leave. Whenever we [...]

Reason Number 67 why I hate my good friend Joe Saperstein.On Sat. Jan 16th the little creep calls me up and tells me that it’s to cold in Fort Collins(12 degrees to be exact)  so he is heading down to Tucson to train and wants to know if I want to go with him.  While that seems [...]

So, I have two awesome things to talk to the world about today. First I will discuss my cross country skiing adventures. Last weekend, the team traveled to Soldier Hollow, Utah (site of the 2002 Winter Olympics).  The first race was the 20K classic race. If you don’t know me, then you might not know [...]

While at training camp I got a new saddle. It’s a whole story in and of itself.
I decided that rather than waste a good SLR (parts of mine were still OK) I’d refurbish it and breathe some new life into it.
Step #1.
I stripped the saddle down to it’s shell.

Step #2.
I haggled with a street [...]

This poor ‘ol truck got a little tired of fighting the wind on I25 south of Pueblo and decided to lay down and take a nap in front of us. On our way down to Austin, a 15 hour trip quickly turned into 20 hours…

And we all had to wait while the truck took [...]