Chickleta - My SBRing and other Adventures

Its makes me super happy that these days there are many good options for women specific mountain bike shorts. I wrote about this topic before ( here ). Bicycling magazine even published an article describing 8 Badass Women's MTB shorts (link here: 8 Badass Women's Mountain Bike Shorts ) recently. Being a gear-head, I was a little disappointed that my favorite women's MTB shorts did not make the list. I decided to rectify the situation by telling you all about my favorite shorts and why. Full disclosure, I like it them much that I now own 4 pairs and just ordered my 5th.  Why I need so many?  Is reason #1 of why they are my favorite. They come in so many awesome colors and patterns. They look so cool that I started wearing them as regular shorts off the bike as well. Looks are important but there is more. Starting with the perfect fit and many well thought of features (coming next). Combine all those together and you have a winner.  The Shredly booth in Sedona

As I move up Columbine one pedal stroke after the other, all I can think of as I grasp for air is "how the hell did they carry all this mining equipment up so high back then", I guess the prospect of gold or silver can make us all do crazy things ... So here is my story. Race day is ON! Welcome to Leadville - Who's Ready to Roll?   This is the 3rd and last installment of my Leadville 2016 adventure. To read the previous 2 posts - click  here for the first  and  here for the second .  The Start Line At 5:30 am the line of corrals (which is about a mile long) is already packed with races. I head slowly to my assigned corral, the Blue corral. It is the second to last corral and the only reason I was lucky enough not to be in the last corral was due to me being a member of  Team World Bicycle Relief . The White corral is last corral and this is where those unlucky races who do not have qualifying times from previous races are staged. Why unlucky you'll see

The bottom of Powerline. Pushing it to make the cutoff I have been sitting on my Leadville 100 MTB Race blog posts since August. "I don't have time" was my excuse. Travel, more races, training, more travel. At least this is what I was telling myself. Then I realized that I was spending more time on catching up on my favorite TV shows than on any on the above list of excuses (well almost). It was time to admit to myself that those were just excuses for my lack of motivation to sit down and write my story. The truth is that every time I sat down to write it I felt stuck. It wasn't "flowing" like the first part ( here ). I was struggling with telling my story, or more with what/how to tell it. So like anything else in mountain biking (and life), you gotta keep trying until you find the flow. Once you do you gotta keep going with it or keep looking. So here goes. No excuses. About 10 days before my big day, my A race for the year, August 13, 2016 - Lead