LummoxBlog

.

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:59:59 GMT

just look up

anti-retreat

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:11:21 GMT

It is true, and it has value
Sometimes, I can see it, act within it
To pretend otherwise, is a disservice to myself and others

three

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:45:14 GMT

remember that this world was once covered in snow

now, it is not.

welcome to three

I can

Tell it’s

Summer

From the

Size of

The bugs that fly

Through my window

Flying through my window…

Ice Hill starts moderate then after a big left sweeper, it fills in with tree roots and steepness. This steep section may be a challenge in the second chain ring. It may be wise to come charging into Ice Hill in something like 3-5, fall to 2-5 when you must, then begin your fight at 1-5.

The crest will come, chase the end of the grade, chase it back into the middle chain ring. There will be a narrow forested downhill, then fast, open, rocky.

And it feels

Just like

The ground

Trapped in another way

Just still in the ground

Blue Sky is a power dance. I have to warn you, I have to promise you this; Blue Sky, it is a power dance. Lines that others may not see will present themselves to you. If you ask. If you lead, she will follow. Climb for a bit in this dance, then explode at the level. The forest thickens and the dance becomes intricate, so you must be quick and patient. Then she will ask power of you again. Why sell your soul on Ice Hill when you can dance on Blue Sky? Match what Ice Hill asks of you, be ready for what Blue Sky gives.

so you

can’t hold

a star

in your

hand though

at least you

can hold on to

another plan

D4. A series of switchbacks will try to hurt your will. Play. It won’t last. A confession, dear reader; all of this is from the perspective of relative ease, not a relentless hell push, and that is precisely the point.

We have all the time in the word

To get it right

We have all the love in the world

To set alight

Just look up

Elk Meadow; a fast, pretty, and smooth, wide single track for the most part, aptly named.

Chainsaw and Flume; Fast, working tightly through trees. You should know this feel by now. Rushing is a trick. Patience. Single-Mindedness. There is a ‘bring it home” feeling that starts to grow here.

Creekside: Challenging because it is fast. Sharp corners and technicals that surprise you. There are smooth lines hiding in this, but you will have to contest fatigue and the urge to finish to find them. If you have done this day right, your work has already been done. Find yourself a point on the active edge, not the resting edge, of balance.

You will finish

You will walk through the gates at the end.

They will scan your number plate and record your performance. You will have done your job, the clock will have done his.

You will be at the edge of forest, a road, and a crowded campground. All bathed in sun. Desolate as I write this, under a half moon, the landscape then will be like a city, full of volunteers, your competitors, your friends, all one and the same. There will be laughter, sounds of exhaustion. I have to promise you this; there will be smiles.

remember, this world was once covered in snow

lyrics by:

Silversun Pickups

The Frames

pictures

theory

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:25:39 GMT

(to be tested)

fear can be displaced with a combination of understanding and reverence

two abslolutes

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:17:37 GMT

1) You don't understand most of what is happening right now. Not by a longshot.

2) Things don't stay like this.

ones and zeros

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:15:26 GMT

and so it was that the student asked the master;

how many of the ones and zeros

how many of the circumstances and events

had to line up just so

to get to this point right here

to make things precisely as they are?

the master answered;

all of them

Cumulonimbus

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:18:11 GMT

the next big storm we get

i am laying down in the front yard

on my back

listen to the wind and the thunder

jets flying low

on account of conditions

the raindrops begin

why race

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:07:20 GMT

because from time to time

there will be things that you want dearly

and you will have to fight for them

you will have to listen for a call

that starts inside you and reaches outward

racing is good practice

Turtle

Sat, 03 May 2008 13:03:13 GMT

A vast journey can only be accomplished with small steps, repeated patiently until the traveler has grown as large as his journey. And the traveler is never alone.

~Kent Peterson

The Way of the Mountain Turtle

from which you draw

Fri, 02 May 2008 15:20:19 GMT

life

(true life, that is,)

(riding, racing, art, love)

springs from a field of potential that is

limitless, boundless

not miserly, not restricted

go ahead

open up

there is plenty

Rachel Carson

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:02:08 GMT

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

~Rachel Carson

pilfered shamelessly from an entirely worthy website: TrailCentral

leadville

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:19:31 GMT

Well I am off to Leadville to the last of the winter bike series up there, should be fun. Weather is highly iffy, chance for rain. What will a snow bike race be like on cross country ski trails in the rain?

.

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:33:05 GMT

behold; the opportunity to do things well

rwe

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:18:52 GMT

I am God in nature

I am a weed by the wall

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

shoulder

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:07:27 GMT

~fiction, short story~

the first thing is the sound of a car approaching at highway speed.

I open my eyes, the world is horizontal. A close-up view of a broken and worn white paint stripe. Gravel and asphalt. The car is a blur of blue and chrome as it speeds by, and it kicks up cubes of broken safety glass on the highway. The wind draft of its speed passes over my face.

This can't be good. How did I get here?

I can feel the sun on the left of my face, the earth on the right. I am to hot and to cold at the same time. I am not thinking straight. How did I get here? What kind of shape am I in? Am I just a head on the side of this highway? Scores of other unpleasant thoughts pass through me.

Another car approaches, but this one stops. Doors open and people get out, I hear something said like “my god…” I have to get up. I try. Nothing happens.

But I can feel the shape of the desire to get up, and desire is not there yet.

And just like that, it’s easy to know; every time I have tried to move something, to do something, there is the mechanical connection of muscle and nerves, and there is the desire to have it done. Everything. Every motion. Maybe even the beat of my heart.

If I could just get a handle on that, the desire to get up, off this highway, out of this… bad predicament...

But the desire won’t budge.

I lie there, thinking of the thing I could feel the shape of so clearly.

desire

Is it my job to move it? Or it’s job to move me?

.

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:05:55 GMT

i am where i am at, it has to do with weakness

i am where i am at, it has to do with strength

the nature of power

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:02:58 GMT

to be developed

..a consistent nature, throughout, wherever it appears;

Jet engines, diesel locomotives, the human heart (both mechanical and transcedent), the seasons, rust and decay.

It rises, then settles to its steady state, at harmony with what it has been set to do.

Understand it fully once; and you can see it again, in many things.

Turn your back on it; it is better that you hope for nothing

carlyle

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:15:55 GMT

… how everything does cooperate with all; not a leaf rotting on the highway but is indissoluble portion of solar and stellar systems; no thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all men, and works sooner or later, recognizably or irrecognizably, on all men! It is all a Tree; circulation of sap and influences, mutual communication of every minutest leaf with the lowest talon of a root, with every other greatest and minutest portion of the whole.

~Thomas Carlyle

Rise, by The Frames

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:24:30 GMT

Breathing in the night
There's nothing else I'm needing now
The wind is at my side
And so are you
And together we will rise

Above all these words and promises we couldn't keep,
Together we will fly above it all
But sometimes we will fall...
From the light
But it shines on us tonight...
And together we will rise

And surely it's a sign now,
That everything's in tune to some kind of higher plan
Surely it's a sign
That you were right...
And there's the secret line
That we've been denied...
But we're crossing it tonight
And together we will rise

Sometimes we will fall,
from the light
But it shines on us tonight
And together we will rise

Pass this line
That we're crossing here tonight
And together we will rise

~Rise, by The Frames

elevate

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:58:37 GMT

race a class tougher than you could

race a class that sometimes overwhelms you

race a class that allows for something marvelous to happen

Photo Album: Mattew Winters May 30

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:50:27 GMT

Mattew Winters May 30

cool bird at Matthew Winters

same cool bird. It was more yellow in real life

the group at the lot

Chris nails a technical

still nailing a technical, in spite of photog in the way

Good sunset. Missed the storm

Photo Album: White Ranch in the fall

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:49:57 GMT

White Ranch in the fall

Photo Album: Moab

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:02:50 GMT

Moab

Slickrock

Slickrock, Rain and La Sal Mountains

Slickrock, looking down at the Colorado River

Slickrock, La Sals

Porcupine Rim

Porcupine Rim, the La Sals again, Kevin

Crush the tourists...

Fragile Arch

More Photos...

Photo Album: Misc

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 03:22:48 GMT

Misc

1 005

1 017

1 031

1 194

1 409

1 481

1 486

1 541

1 001

1 026

More Photos...

Blog list: Links

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:05:48 GMT

Links

Chris Plesko
Chris' blog, great stuff about an insanely good cylclist training for insane cycling events,
Marni Plesko
Chris' better half, her blog is always fun to read.
Lovely Lummox
My sister! I am glad she has started a blog, I hope she adds to it often. She is wicked smart, very talented and beautiful to boot.
Ride Against the Machine
A site edited by Scott. He is a great organizer and motivator, a central part of the Wednesday cycling group. One of the nicest people you will meet, but then that group has a lot of them.