Enjoying Life in West Sonoma County

Wine Country Velo invades Berkeley! So the WC Velo group headed down to Berkeley this morning to do some hill climbing. It was a cool morning as we rode through Berkeley and started climbing up…

A four seasons ride today, started with a beautiful fall day as we rode out Harrison Grade to Faciendini to Freestone (of course stopping for some wonderful scones at the bakery in Freestone)…

Active recovery ride as we have a couple of big climbing rides this weekend. Easy spin on my replacement frame, I am so happy to have my old/new bike back. It just seemed to want to fly, but it…

Yoakim Bridge out and back doing LT drills. Fairly strong head winds on the return trip but we really pushed it on the LT drills. Total elevation climbed 2,200 feet.

I hope bad luck does not come in sets of three cause I don’t know what else can happen. Last week I find a crack in my frame so I am now riding my back up bike until the new frame is ready. Well…

Endurance Ride. Nice day, but I was feeling yesterday. Took a detour to Windsor so we could stop and have a smoothie at Starbucks which tasted outstanding in the heat.

Boba’s Rockpile Hill Challenge. So we could not do the race on Tuesday night do to the crack in my bike’s frame and my back up being in the shop, so we got the back up and rode the course on…

Rode the Levi’s Grand Fondo course one more time before the event in two weeks. It was hot but what a beautiful day, especially riding down Meyer’s Grade to the coast. Absolutely stunning day….

Pre-race ride which turned into an end of day ride. While spinning out my legs for tonights hill climbing challenge I heard a bad pinging noise. When I got home I checked it out and found a…

MS Waves to Wines. This was a three day event, where on Friday we rode into San Francisco, Saturday was a century and Sunday was a 75 mile ride.

Out goal was to focus an aggressive ride on…