February 2011
2 posts
listening to "Goodnight Elizabeth | Counting Crows... →
Not as good as the clip posted by Adam on facebook this morning, but I wanted to share the song as I really enjoy Goodnight Elizabeth.
listening to "Band of Horses - →
When I am living in San Miguel de Allende, taking a trip to Laredo is a necessary part of visiting los Estados Unidos
January 2011
4 posts
listening to "Five AM - Just Say Anything" →
One of our local artists. I really enjoy their music but also since I start work at 5am, I enjoy the name of the group.
listening to "Mumford And Sons - The Cave (BBC... →
My tribute to the Tea Party, I hope you guys and gals have more in your plan than just to say no.
listening to " →
The Avett Brothers just make me want to stop what ever I am doing and sing along. Such great music.
listening to "James Maddock - When The Sun →
Outstanding version of James When the Sun’s Out.
December 2009
4 posts
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Soup Spoons & Carbon Forks group ride. Rode with the appetizer group (fast and close to race conditions) from Healdsburg, over Sweetwater and back River Road, Westside and Eastside. Great group…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance pace ride. Warmed up very nice so instead of the trainers we headed out for a short ride at a nice effort. Needed to get back early as I am still swamped with work and will be out of…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Trainer, worked on hill intervals on the trainer. Just one session and I miss riding outside.
Distance
15.78mi
Time
01:01
Felt
good
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance pace up to Healdsburg and back via Vine Hill. Beautiful day, but the day is too short. Total elevation climbed was 1,729 feet.
Distance
32.66mi
Time
01:58
Felt
good
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
West County Revolutions Monday Morning Ride, great ride rambling in the lumpy and bumpy roads of west county. Discovered several new roads that I never knew existed and they are like less than…
November 2009
10 posts
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance ride - Healdsburg and Vine Hill loop. A beautiful day riding through the Dry Creek area, not many cars and the sun was out, a great day. Total elevation climbed was 1,837 feet.
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Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Tour de Boulangerie. The 2nd annual tour hosted by West County Revolution rolled off at 9:30 and we headed out and over Harrison Grade, down to Occidental and then to the first feed zone, the…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Missed the annual Norcal Turkey Day ride as I had to finish a project for a launch tomorrow so we did not get off until 10:30. Headed out to Chalk Hill and saw the T-Day peloton returning from…
Jon E. posted a note →
Happy T-Day to everyone, hope you all have a great day and get to have a great ride. I know we have one planned (as soon as it warms up a little).
Jon E. posted a hiking workout →
Gilliam Creek Trail Hike, a great hike in the Austin Creek park, with about 800 feet of climbing. Beautiful day to do some off season hiking.
Distance
9.0mi
Time
03:18
Felt
good
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Active Recovery Ride over to Andy’s Market to do some grocery shopping and coffee at My Friend Joe’s. A very nice afternoon spin with Jo Ann that allowed me to get away from the screen and the…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Tempo Pace Ride. After deciding it was too cold to ride with my Monday morning group (yes I was called a wimp by some of them), we decided to head out when the temperatures were a little more…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Active recovery ride. The storm cleared (really not much rain, just a heavy drizzle over here) and the sun came up so Jo Ann and I took off for an easy spin over to Healdsburg and back. Very…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Great endurance ride thought Dry Creek and over to Geyserville. Although it was cold at the start we warmed up nice and enjoyed the beautiful day cycling in one of the best places in the world….
September 2009
17 posts
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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)…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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.
Distance
42.54mi
Time
…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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.
Distance
28.46mi
Time
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Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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….
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
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…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Organic Athlete Stage Race, Stages 1 and 2. This was a 30 mile road race and a 8 mile time trial over a very hilly course. I got dropped on a fairly early climb and fought my way back to finish…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance Pace with LT drills. Rode the SRCC time check on Graton, down BoHo, out to Duncan Mills, then climbed King Ridge, Hauser Bridge, back on Fort Ross Rd. then came up River Road and took…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance pace ride. Just a nice easy ride through West County, kept pace at a brisk level, but did not push it much. Stopped for a smoothie at Starbucks which was yummy. Total elevation climbed…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
VO2 drills on Sweetwater Springs, Mays Canyon and Green Valley. Felt really good after yesterday’s rest day and was able to really push it up Sweetwater. Beat my PB for the year by 3:30 mins…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance Pace Drills. Not really feeling like riding but needed to get some miles in as next week is a big race and event week, so I gutted it up and went out for an endurance paced ride. Still…
Jon E. posted a note →
Just noticed that I am now over 7,000 miles for the year and have climbed almost 500k feet. Since it is just the end of August I guess I need to update my goals for the year as they are all passed,…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Marshall Loop. 5 sets of LT workouts for 30 minutes, two on climbs and three on rollers. It was cold and wet when we pushed off and really never warmed up. I was sluggish riding out Harrison…
August 2009
24 posts
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Hill Intervals. Rode out Chalk Hill to do Hill Intervals on Pine Flat. It felt like my old Chicago summers, hot and humid and I felt it. My legs were tired and I was ramping to zone 5 way too…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Viva la Rivera Revolution Ride. The final Rivera ride of the year and was it a hot one, and I mean the temperature. This was the first time in the history of this ride that I can remember people…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Tempo Paced Ride. Rode 3 x 30 min high zone 3/low zone 4. Nice workout even if the temperatures are finally showing some life. Warm out on West Dry Creek, but was beautiful heading out on Mill…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance Pace Ride. Can see the sun is starting to set sooner, where did summer go. Did not push it too hard, but kept a nice pace for the elevation climbed which was 2,323 feet.
Distance
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Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Active Recovery Ride. Easy ride into Sebastopol just to spin out the legs. Still a little tired, but looking forward to several long and exciting rides this week.
Distance
15.41mi
Time
01:05
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Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
LT and Speed Drills. Was suppose to do a TT test, 5x20 LT drills and some speed drills, but was sore and tired from yesterday. I was almost a minute slower on my 30k TT, could only do 4 of the…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Practice ride of Levi’s Grand Fundo course, which is going to be held in West County on Oct 3. Rode from the house at 6:30a and it was cold (52) and foggy. By the time we got to the top of King…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Tempo Workout. Started to ride out to the coast and got as far as Freestone and had to cut it short. It felt like it was February, cold, windy and overcast. I sure hope this weather is gone…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
VO2 drills on Sweetwater Springs. Great day climbing Sweetwater Springs over and back. Feeling really good after the recovery week last week. Total elevation climbed was 3,256 feet.
Distance
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Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance Pace. First day back after recovery week and it felt good to get out and ride. Easy loop around the wine country with beautiful weather. Total elevation climbed was only 2,916 feet.
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Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Group ride with the 2 Wheel Racing club. Nice easy pace around west Sonoma county, enjoyed riding with a bunch of the guys/gals that I have not seen for a long time. Total elevation climbed was…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance Ride during recovery week. Beautiful day to be out riding through the vineyards, blue skies, not much wind and the grapes are looking mighty tasty. Rode a nice pace and just enjoyed…
Jon E. posted a cycling workout →
Endurance ride at tempo pace. One of my three rides for my rest/recovery week, I rode out through the wine country enjoying the ride and not focusing on any training or drills. Having the time…