Wow, June flew by fast.  I was so busy getting out and riding that I didn’t realize I had only written one blog post since May! Sorry everyone.  June was an intense month on the bike.  I spent most of June bulking up on climbing rides and doing a few hill climb races to get my legs ready for the Mt. Evans Hill Climb later this month.  I finished the Rist Canyon Hill Climb and felt really good and did the first stage of the Dead Dog Classic (a big hill climb to 10,800 feet).  I opted to not do the final two stages of the Dead Dog (a crit and a time trial) mostly because I don’t like crits.  I also got to spend the last three days of June training higher in the Rocky Mountains to get myself a little more used to the thinner air that I’ll be breathing on Mt. Evans.  Check out some of the photos from the training rides here.  Well anyway, I’m looking forward to a busy July with the TdF starting this weekend and my final prep for Mt. Evans.  OK, enough blabbering, here are my numbers for June:

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Wow, another year come and gone…and they just keep going faster.  Yup, you guessed it, today’s my birthday.  It’s been a year full of some of the biggest ups and definitely some of the biggest downs in my life.  My most sincere and heartfelt thanks to all of my friends and family who stood shoulder to shoulder with me through the rough spots and kept me smiling and laughing and loving life. Thanks to all of you, I’m happy to still be alive and breathing on planet Earth. Of course my deepest thanks goes as always to the unsung hero of my life, my wife. And to my two little sons who keep me smiles everyday, I can never repay the debt.  My amazingly awesome brother Glenn sent this video of an old “song” from way back in 1999 called Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen).  Maybe you don’t remember it but check it out, it’s a great video to watch at least once every year and it’s full of absolutely the most useful  advice for living!

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Wow, May flew by quickly this year! Seems like my summer race season is fast approaching and it’s time to shift into high speed in June.  But May was all about interval workouts for me, especially time trial and climbing intervals.  This month, the overall mileage went down but the intensity was way high!  So far I’m feeling good and on pretty good form.  I still need to drop a few pounds before Mt. Evans in July, but right now I’m looking forward to June (although I’m not looking forward to turning 43 this month!). My June calendar is about more climbing intervals as I get ready for Mt. Evans, but it’ll also include some racing at the Rist Canyon Hill Climb and the Dead Dog Classic Stage Race.  Anyway, here is my May by the numbers courtesy of Daytum.com:

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I pulled the trigger and added the Rist Canyon Hill Climb to my 2010 race schedule on June 5. Here’s an awesome video of the race highlights from 2009. Plus you get a chance to see where I ride and train just about every day. The course is quite literally in my backyard. If you’re interested in racing or doing the citizens ride up Rist Canyon, there’s still time to enter before the June 4th cutoff date. Details for registration are here.