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10:15pm - Monday night. Morning swim on the far side of horizontal time ended by 6:00am scheduled Kings of Leon. I am uninspired to write, yet so inspired to express. Phil Liggett is on the far side of the living room commentating through a Lance Armstron recap/buildup for the Grand Tour’s start this weekend. I [...]

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Mainly some memories of Ella - the little Princess. Been a great few days back in Truckee with summer in full swing. Some great riding and evening music in the park…

Received an email from a friend this week, that reminded me how the life I live is such a privilege. Herewith a section:
“With this email I also want to thank everyone in the Xterra community to give me some of the best moments in my live. I got to know some people who [...]

Been a great week back in thin Sierra Nevada air - settling training and bio-rhythms after 10days on the Midwest trail. It will take most of the 10days here to adapt to the lessened oxygen effect before heading North to Idaho next Thursday. More exciting back home was the finalizing of a new dreamGiver in [...]

Blogging is bad. So trust you’ll appreciate the lack of content as energy channelled onto some sticky, dust free, mint condition single track in the Truckee forests. I am finally for the first time since February 14th and my (tr)ucking surprise feel like I am getting amped for building form. I always maintain that I’m [...]

Its nine hours down from Truckee!  With Emma’s favourite on repeat as a non-option: The Eels Band, this while driving through the most monotonous landscape thinking, “The Karoo has nothing on this”:

I cracked into a thousand little fragments of ambition, expectation, disappointment, pain, and so forth yesterday morning during a bailed swim attempt with the Truckee Masters after waking with headspace as thick as Beijing pollution and balance as wobbly as Gary and I on Saturday’s log riding (I’ll get it on video next time).
Stumbling from [...]

Aha. Sunday night and little energy left to tick the ‘must post block’ on the weekend to-do as the orchestra of frogs outside sound like they share my bedroom here at the Snover home in Tahoe Donner, a neighbourhood above Truckee where I’ve been welcomed for my first few days. Days that have reminded me [...]

Been really brilliant getting back to the quaint intimate town of Truckee. As soon as I touch ground, I’ll blog on my experiences. But been a treat, despite sucking on the thin air and feeling smashed from the travel. Oh, and finally got involved with a tub of Ben and Jerry’s which was nearly as [...]

I have been trying to find words since the news last week Thursday. I feel such a devastating sense of loss for Sherry and Ayla, loss for a husband and father, the loss of a humble understated icon who was their cornerstone. My heart and mind keeps wondering to their home in Squaw just outside [...]

It’s been a narly week. Tough times. I’m actually faily exhausted. Since my return from Maui my totalled movie time is tenfold my training time, and my Ben and Jerry count exceeds my veggie intake.

And that be that. The end of a small potent block of work in Truckee Tahoe High School pool as well as the trails circling Truckee Town. High, low, fast, slow - all the bad now. The usual scramble tomorrow, before a 10:40am departure to Kahului via Seattle.

Strange how an event can change inner perception - going from self doubt to self belief. I’m sure that’s universal, but non more so than in sport. The thought patterns change for me, and the visualization while training grows in confidence and positivity. Surely not much changed physically during the event, other than the inner [...]

Half way down the most brilliant cross country type downhill I’ve riden, was some tree trunk riding and log piles to traverse. Although the clip does the obstacles no justice, it gives a feel for it.

(Log riding in Truckee)

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