Yoga for Cyclists Workshop!

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Back to the now

I keep meaning to take a few photos from one of my classes, but I keep forgetting. I was subbing for Mike and his people are use to all kinds of tomfoolery, thus....

I needed a few shots for the "Yoga for Cyclists - Connecting with the process" workshop that I will be guiding on May 13th, mark your calendar and bring your Mother! Details will be up on the Pranava website sometime this week.

There is a Jay-Z song where he is rambling on about things he can't change and the next line is "let me get back to the page". Back to the now... Jay-Z also has a line in the song Haters, "you know I got a down... dog"

You now have 2 chances each week (sometimes 3 or 4) to catch me at Pranava. You should come check out the rest of the wonderful instructors at Pranava, if I'm not your cup of tea. Pranava has a wide variety of classes I'm sure there is something you will like. Check the schedule

Enjoy the Process!

Big old group ride on Sunday. The whole world showed up to ride. The trails are fairly clear for this time of year, we need the snow, let it snow... Our usual little group was joined by another 40 or so riders, most of which fell off the pace or turned off on the way thru their own process. Kip Biese and Jonathan Davis kept us "regulars" company at the front. I was so happy to be out for a long ride, I was a little tired from working, riding, teaching yoga and attending an 8hr yoga workshop on Saturday, but I woke up on Sunday morning motivated to ride. I could have just as easily gone out for a 4 or 5 hour ride by myself, but it was fun to have some friends to share the process with!!! The process today is what it's all about.

Schwalbe Tires!

Stephanie and Lambie know that Schwalbe Tires are the best. Look at the love. I love 'em too! I've been using these tires for years. I can only recall 1 flat, that was at the Growler and was mostly rider error. I burped the tire and thought I could finish the race without stopping to put more air in. I finally rolled the tire off the rim a couple miles before the finish. I love the Racing Ralphs but the Hans Dampfs or Fat Alberts hook-up like bananas just about anywhere. If you have trouble mounting the tubeless version be patient use the easy glide stuff they sell, and don't plan on mounting any fresh tires right before a ride. Let the tires sit unfolded over night and if you really have trouble seating them put tubes in for a night, then take them out in the morning. The tires will hold their shape and it will be easier to get them to seal.

Yo Yo Yoga

7:30 too late for yoga? I will now be guiding the yoke on Tuesday at 7:30pm and Wedensday at 5:30 pm. This week I'll be subbing for Mike on Saturday and Monday. Check Pranava Yoga Center

Also save the date May 13th 2012 I'm teaching a 3hr Yoga for Cyclists Workshop! Should be exciting! The details will be relieved soon.

Story of the Mask

So Jon Severson was out in Utah, drinking beer apparently and who's mug should be on the bottle he was sucking on... you guessed it! Ironically I rarely drink... anymore. A few years ago I came to the realization that the less I drink the better I feel which led to not drinking at all for a couple years. I spent too many hours wallowing in maudlin nastalgia or the gooey future that never came. Clarity in the present moment is a beautiful thing. In another odd twist of beer fate I won a New Belgium Brewery cruiser earlier in the year and did have a beer in New Belgium's honor. I would probably drink one of these if I could get my hands on one. Shades of Pale Brewery made a limited edition beer to help promote the Park City Point 2 Point, a race I've always wanted to do but have actually never done because it has conflicted with the Dakota 5-0, I think? How they decided on a picture of me from what looks to be a local SandCreek race, I will never know? It must be the cool mask on the jersey or something. *edit* All truths have been discovered on Facebook, ha! The photo on the bottle is from a Wednesday night SandCreek race. That is Jj(#4) and I lapping Adam Jeffrey of Southern Colorado Velo. Jj and I traded pulls for the full 60 minutes. It came down to a sprint finish and I pulled out of my pedal coming out of the last corner less than 100 meters from the line.

Speaking of the mask... "I thought it was a scary clown or a horse's head looking up from a trough." Kate's Real Food had a FaceBook contest about what the mask was and some guy said it looked like, "a horse's head looking up from a trough full of water." Haha! It is actually a Himalayan Buddhist mask, sometimes called a "happy mask". It is said to protect the wearer form anyone who would harm human life. I won't go into all the mask metaphors, or what I think the five little heads represent? The five senses? The five sheaths? I just thought it was cool and it spoke to me at the time. This is a picture I took of the very mask our design is based on, it is at the Mountaineering Museum in Golden, Colorado. I was at the Colorado Trail Foundation holiday party a few years ago and I took the picture then, it was another year or so before the mask made its way into the Bandwagon logo. Michael from Eon Studios and I worked out the drawing. We added a tooth here and took out a tooth there... I love how Primal used the mask in the new kits! Let me know if anyone you know ends up with one of those bottles.

Some actual bike related content

Solid ride today with Kalan Beisel, Jason Hanson, and Fernando Riveroz Paez. Fernando had a little get off and found an armful of cactus. He is cussing at Kalan in Spanish in the above photo. So shortly after Fernando picked all the cactus out of his arm I slashed a tire, not a Schwalbe tho that would never happen! I've been riding the gf's Niner until I get a new bike, from Colorado Cyclist? I have some fresh Schwalbe on the way too, can't wait! They make every bike rip.

Kalan, Jason and I hammered the road ride yesterday. we were all a little tired after the effort yesterday. We were suppose to ride to Deckers on the road again today but the cold winds relegated us to the mountain bikes, good thing, we (Bandwagon) picked up a new rider and really nice kid. We have been riding with this Columbian ripper the last couple weekends and he needs a team... so the Bandwagon it will should be! Now I have someone to take to the front at the ProXCT races, haha, until Jason gets his game straight, haha again. I think he is on his own at the World Cups tho.