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Careful Documentation of Nothing Much

Pretty much like the name says. Middle aged, Midwest mediorce mountain biking and misc musings. I love to ride and write, sometimes I think I’m funny. Sometimes I’m the only one that sees the humor - and that’s….ok.

Check-it, or don’t that’s cool too.

http://carefuldocumentationofnothingmuch.blogspot.com/

Biking for Sushi

www.bikingforsushi.com
A blog about pushing life out of perspective…

 
We are fun, free loving road bikers who love to take bike trips all around the midwest.   We take a small camera out on the bike with us to take any action shots.  Our trips so far this year consist of the Horsey Hundred, Colorado, The Great Sushi ride of 2009, Chicago lakefront, and the MS150.

Travels with my Mule

http://philipshrimpton.blogspot.com/

I am a balding,overweight, middle aged man whose mid-life crisis is like ‘Groundhog day’. However to compensate for this I like going on adventures with my Mule called ‘Scott’.Scott is not really a Mule and has two wheels.However there are similarities. He is expected to carry the weight of the world, my troubles, expectations and rotund frame without complaint.He is also very stuborn when you try and force him up steep gradients.
I also like to write hence my blog.
I dream of being a two wheeled althlete even if its just in my age catergory.
I love hills and climbing them and cycling at breakneck speed down the other side.
Each year I proclaim - This is my year. It has not happened yet. However don’t rule me and the Mule out for this year.
If Lance Armstrong can make a comeback, I can.
Watch out you veterans I will be chasing your wheel. I try to do a number of endurance charity rides each year including the Houston to Austin MS 150 in April, joining my twin brother who lives in Houston, this year I am also doing the Hotter than Hell again in Texas in August.Whether I cycle fast or faster it will be fun trying and I will attempt to entertain you with my blog along the way.

I hope you enjoy it

April 2009 Featured blog

Monumentally Afflicted

Why you should read my blog: Spent more time today wrenching on bikes than actually riding.
 
Editor’s note: Monumentally Afflicted had the most hits back to the site this month and earns the Featured blog spot!

Twitter posts from the big names

I’ve added a Twitter compilation of the big names, something new and maybe interesting… It’s a feed compilation of the Twitter entries from most of the big names in cycling. If you’re viewing this front page article in a FeedReader, you won’t be able to see the entries, however you can go to the blogroll and pull the Twitter compilation up, subscribe to them, etc.

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Mar 3, 2009 - The freshest mountain biker blogs

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Jeff - longing for Colorado (guest post)

Having done several MS150s, self-supported Katy Tail trip, a couple of Tour de Kota rides around eastern South Dakota, and thousands of miles around the country roads of eastern Kansas, last summer I found what road biking can be at it’s most spectacular. My bother-in-law from SD and I rode the 2nd annual Colorado Rocky Mountain Bicycle Tour. It was a loop from Gunnison to Hotchkiss to Glenwwod Springs to Leadville to Frisco for a rest day. Then on to Salida and back to Gunnison. The route included all the passes form the Copper Triangle, Monarch Pass, the Black Canyon, and Independence Pass, 12,095 feet. We camped in the cool mountain air, revelled in awe-inspiring scenery every day, and climbed more than a midwesterner might think possible.

  I’m hooked. This summer I’m in for the CRMBT again, including the Copper Triangle on the day before. And instead of doing a Kansas ride which I was debating, either BAK or Border Raiders (both of which sound like a load of fun), I took the plunge and signed up for the Tour of Colorado. This tour is celebrating their 15th year with a route of 555 miles and 40,000+ feet of climbing. I’m intent on losing a few pounds from the holidays, I’ve got a new bike ordered from Trek project one, and just to make it even more interesting, I’m looking at one more huge challenge for an old guy from low elevation. The plan at this point is to drive to Echo Lake Campground near Idaho Springs, CO a couple days before BTC, and riding to the top of Mt. Evans. It’s the highest paved road in the U.S. at over 14,000 feet. It’s not a pass, it’s up and back, but it’s there, and it’s calling my name.

See more at http://jeff-road.blogspot.com/

March 2009 Featured Blog

Cycle for Change

Why you should read my blog: We are an environmental project that are rinding through the himalayas and bangladesh next summer 2009.
 
Editor’s note: This was the first blogger to do a guest post on BikeBlogCollection.com. Cycle for Change had the most hits back to the site this month and earns the Featured blog spot!

Mar 1, 2009 bike blogs submission

 Pierider

Why you should read my blog:  So I can share my experiences with others.

Current bikes: Look 585, Santa Cruz Stigmata, Soma Rush, Fuji Track Pro, Santa Cruz Blur LT, Gary Fisher SuperCal 29r,  Fuji Team Issue

Mother Nature’s 2009 TOC Fit Means it is Time to Talk Fitness (guest post)

Instead of watching the boys ride their bikes up Tunitas Creek Rd, Mother Nature has forced me indoors to cook up my next workout. Being that is still February, it will be rooted in single leg movements to continue to increase my hip stability. This will be the ticket to laying down a lot more power in the saddle this season.

This is one of the largest factors to success on the bike for a lot riders: lack of joint stability. Since your body can only produce the amount of power your joint stability allows, you are firing a canon from a canoe if you don’t work on this, YEAR ROUND. I won’t get into the fact that power meters don’t actually measure power, they really measure hip stability because that is a long one!

Most riders engage in body builder type muscle isolation programs, which is great if you are building bulk to flex on stage, but not beneficial if you are trying to improve the way your body is actually designed to move: as an integrated unit in a 3-dimensional environment. Especially since endurance athletes produce ALL of their power from a single leg platform.

I’ve always found it funny how cycling strength workouts look just like old school body builder routines: sit down and press, sit down and curl, sit down and extend. Since riding a bike takes place in a supported seated environment in only one plane of motion (just like these exercises do), it is critical to do “anti-cycling” workouts that open up the hips and get you working while you stand up on a single leg.INTEGRATE Performance Fitness in the last year and a half. Out of that population, it is safe to say over 50% of them lacked the proper muscle firing sequences to take full advantage of their hips when they ride (not too mention causing joint pain of every variety). This drastically impacts your ability to sprint, climb and ride at tempo.

We have seen 100’s of riders at

Most of the time it is because the hip flexors and quads are too tight, and the glutes and lower abdomen are too weak. This can come from sitting down for long periods of time, or not addressing these issues off the bike.

This causes performance robbing muscle imbalances that WILL lessen your enjoyment of riding your bike. Not too mention what they do to your balance. Fortunately, a functional strength training program will prevent as well as correct this.

Up next week: Where muscle imbalances come from and the most effective strategies on how to prevent them.