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What a year, and while part of me is glad that it’s over, another part of me is thrilled by what I accomplished and is really looking forward to continuing to grow in 2010. How did you do on your resolutions for 2009? If you will recall from last year’s post, my resolutions were as [...] THE MAHOGANY TREE Christmas is here; Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Shelter’d about The Mahogany Tree. Once on the boughs Birds of rare plume Sang, in its bloom; Night birds are we; Here we carouse, Singing, like them, Perch’d round the stem Of the jolly [...] THE POGUES (feat. Kirsty MacColl) – FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won’t see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one [...] Copyright © 1999, by Kent Peterson. Republished without permission, but it’s too good a story not to share. It’s been years now, but I’ll never forget that Christmas… The days had grown short, the snow had begun to fall and my friends and I were all gathered around old man Petersen’s bike shop in the [...] View Ascent activity on 24-Dec-09 at 12:50PM in a larger map That hurt. I think it was the 18% gradient on Golden Eagle and similar 10% plus grades on Sunset Ridge. Five days in a row on the bike. For me that’s a lot, even though I only averaged about 18.5 miles each day … [...] View Ascent activity on 23-Dec-09 at 01:47PM in a larger map Tried a new route today. According to the maps, the main road within McDowell Mountain Regional Park goes all the way through and connects with Rio Verde, so the plan was to do that and then come back along the main road between Rio [...] View Ascent activity on 22-Dec-09 at 01:22PM in a larger map Today was not Arizona weather … cold (mid 50s) and overcast from the get-go, and about 5 miles in it started lightly raining on me. When the lightning cracked immediately overhead about 5 minutes later, I decided it was time to tuck tail and [...] View Ascent activity on 21-Dec-09 at 11:44AM in a larger map Headed north out of Fountain Hills today towards Rio Verde and Nine Mile Hill. No, I didn’t ride Nine Mile Hill, but kept going straight past Rio Verde Road into the Tonto National Forest towards Needle Rock. Weather was great, overcast and cool (low-to-mid [...] View Ascent activity on 20-Dec-09 at 01:18PM in a larger map So should I count this as a 2009 ride, or should I consider it a jumpstart on the 2010 rides? Drove to Phoenix yesterday (Saturday) for the holidays, and of course had to bring a bike to help keep me sane … the fact [...] The first day of skiing each season is always a little on the iffy side … and yesterday was no different. Headed up to Solitude and could pretty much tell right from the start that it was not going to be a fabulous day when I had trouble getting my boots on. I guess [...] |
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