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ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY I This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King, Of wedded maid and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with [...] They came, they saw, they got crushed (and crushed in return). When I first found out that Burke Swindlehurst was putting together the Crusher in the Tushar, a half-road, half-dirt climbing sufferfest at altitude, I knew immediately that this was going to be an event in which I had to be involved. I’ve written in [...] TO . . . You have been my love for so many years, It makes me dizzy to think of so much hope, And my dizziness won’t be aged, or cooled; Even by what waited for our death, Or slowly learned how to fight us, Even by what is foreign to us, Or by [...] Burke Swindlehurst’s new event, the Crusher in the Tushar, will be having its inaugural running this summer on July 16. The 79 mile course starts in quiet downtown Beaver, Utah and finishes at Utah’s newest ski resort, Eagle Point, and will feature a nearly perfect 50/50 split between pavement and dirt fire-road sectors, allowing riders [...] Tonight, I miss San Francisco … I miss A Bicycle Odyssey in Sausalito (and Tony Tom, the owner) and City Cycle in the Marina (and Clay Mankin, RIP) … I miss the Hi-Ball Lounge in North Beach and I miss Spencer’s upstairs in the back room of the DNA Lounge … and I miss the [...] A couple of photos from my drive home from my mom’s house in Fountain Hills, Arizona on the 28th of December … these two shots were taken on Highway 89, somewhere near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; the first image is of the mountain going up the right side of the road … [...] No. 67 The cold in these mountains is ferocious, has been every year since the beginning. Crowded peaks locked in perennial snows, recluse-dark forests breathing out mists, grasses never sprout before the solstice and leaves start falling in early August. This confusion includes a lost guest now, searching, searching—no sky to be seen. — Han [...] Saxo Bank’s Jens Voigt shrugged off the pain of yet another crash at the Tour de France. On stage 16 Tuesday, Voigt was hurtling down the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, the first of four mountain passes, when he suffered a puncture and crashed at top speed. The German managed to avoid a repeat [...] It’s times like this that I really love living in Utah.
Mt. Olympus, as seen from Holladay at sunset
Another view of Mt. Olympus
Sunset over Holladay [...] A prayer for the second and third weeks of the Giro d’Italia; for the battles in the mountains to come.
Andy Hampsten, climbing the Passo Gavia during the 1988 Giro d’Italia Let us pray: I believe in Hampsten, the Climber Almighty, the Creator of heavenly tours, and in the Landshark of steel, on [...] |
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