River Legacy Park MTB Trail

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Durango writes about what he saw at the River Legacy Park near the Trinity River on his blog Durango Texas. His post begins with:

“Yesterday someone named Jeff left a comment on a post called “River Legacy Park Destruction Surprise.” Basically Jeff did a big “Amen” to what I’d said about what I’d seen.

So, today I decided to ride my bike on the River Legacy trail and see what the current state of destruction is. Before I go any further I will tell you I was not feeling righteously umbraged by what I learned. This surprised me.

I parked at the main part of the park at the south side of the Trinity River, near the mountain bike trailhead.”

Link to the full post at Durango Texas.

The Ride of Your Life

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This week I was listening to my favorite bicycling podcast, The Fredcast, and David Bernstein interviewed David Rowe, the author of the ebook Ride of Your Life. I was intrigued by the interview where the author asks the question, Why do you ride? According to Mr. Rowe there are a mountain of books on riding better but he could not find one that deals with why a person rides.

The Ride of Your Life is based on a structured, 8-step program that’s done without turning the pedals even one revolution. It’s a program . . . a process . . . that Rowe developed and refined during several years that saw him make the leap from Saturday morning club rider to accomplished long-distance cyclist and randonneur.

Rowe supports his program with a series of worksheets that you can print from this eBook and use for every new season.

His approach is found nowhere else. Most training books give brief attention to goal setting and fitting time for cycling into a life full of commitments to family and career. That’s not a knock against those plans – it’s just not their focus.

I do not have an interest in selling the book but the author did ask a very good question. You can listen to the interview in #113 edition of The Fredcast.

Steam N Wheels – Abilene, TX

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This year Steam N Wheels will be held Saturday March 21. Registration form may be obtained by calling 325-676-6431, or emailing susan.gerred@abilenetx.com. Pre-registration deadline is March 13, 2009. Pre-registration fee is $20.00 and late registration fee is $25.00. Start time is 10:00 a.m.

John McAllister Races the Tour of New Braunfels

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This last weekend I headed up to New Braunfels to do a couple days of racing. Neither day is really ‘my’ type of course, one being a crit and the other being a flat exposed RR.

The crit was pretty easy overall, there were a half dozen attacks, a couple of which i went on, but in the end nothing was able to stay away. However, up until we crossed the finish i thought for sure we would not catch that last group. With 3 laps to go (~6miles) a group of 3-4 still had a 45 sec gap, but most of that was eaten up in the final run to the line. I coasted in mid pack.

Read more and see some pictures at Dirty White Boy blog.