Cirque du Cycling, presented by Laughing Planet Cafe, is a street festival, a circus, a bike race and a parade – and a benefit for Albina Youth Opportunity School.
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Is COMING on June 1-6th. Mo and I usually volunteer and have a great time, come out and support the riders, either volunteer or cheer them on! The Indie Hops Mt Hood Cycling Classic 2010….6 stages, 2 in Portland, 4 in and around the Columbia River Gorge! Again, will prove to be some of the toughest racing in the US! Pros/Cat 2 Men Race Schedule June 1-6 This is a reprint of a post written by Leo Babauta on ZenHabits. Read the full post and honor the original author @ http://zenhabits.net/barefoot-running/. I just keep finding the really great articles missing later.Leo says “When I first heard about barefoot running, several years ago, I was skeptical — don’t we need cushion to protect us from injuries, and why would I want to run barefoot, anyway?” And he mentions the same articles and the popularity of Christopher McDougall’s book, Born to Run and decided to give barefoot running a try. Why not? Well, so did I. What I found is that I am still adapting to running with my my Vibram Fivefinger KSOs or completely barefoot and I really appreciated his article and points and so I stored them here. Take a look at what he has to say. Continue reading Reprint: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Barefoot Running I am writing this in the room closest to the front door where I await UPS delivering my Atlantis from Rivendell Bicycle Works. I leave for VA in mid June and I am contemplating attempting the RondePDX legendary route for training purposes. While I know it seems silly, I do recall the mountains. It seems silly as I am no longer starting in OR and won’t see the first set of hills now until day 5 when I cross the Blue Ridge Mountains. And I still wonder if this applies That wound will never fully heal. He will carry it the rest of his life. Bike Change, Direction Change, Everything Coming Together. Posted via web from Enginerve
So my plans changed, apparently the Sam Hillborne was not the right bike for me. It sounds silly to say it as I would have been happy to have had it and happy to have ridden it. I believe it would have been with me a very long time. But the frames weren’t going to arrive on time and so I have upgraded to a Rivendell Atlantis, which of course is my dream bike. I leave from Charlottesville on the 20th of June, a change in direction. One woman writes, it isn’t the wind, as we all know that isn’t so, but I won’t have the sun in my eyes in the morning and I will be out of the hotter areas by late summer and into the mountains in a warmer and drier set of months. And that made perfect sense to me. I also heard from my son (@petebikes) and he mentioned motivation and the desire to be home helping guide him. All of this got me thinking that it was the right thing. And then it occurred to me that having travel plans when I could actually schedule them would keep my cost down and so it goes. I know the mountains would have built my legs into a powerful Kansas beating engine but they will still be there later in the trip and I will have good legs when I reach them this time. So why is the bike shop so important, because it helps to have a shop mirror the values you have and frankly this place simply lived up to what I have always heard, always expected. I love my local shops and the my favorite mechanics are great. What these folks did is calmly assist me in Plan B, and with a tremendous amount of elegance they get it. It is another bike for them to build and at the same time it is a very special bike for me, a bike that I have waited for and wished for over a long period of time. I know that many adjustments will go into it, and many things will be great, and some will be different, but at the end of this day I find myself extremely happy and aware of my good fortune.
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