Carl Buchanan - Mountain Bike Racer

So it begins...

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:08:00 GMT

Monday marked the first day of actual purpose directed training for me outside of the group road rides. Heading out of the house at around 5:15pm to pick up a Fulcrum spoke wrench from Bike Tech and then proceeded to finish my 20 minute warm-up before...(read more)

Rested

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:24:00 GMT

I ended up taking the entire weekend (Fri-Sun) off the bike, although not entirely by choice, which has left me fairly well rested. Amy was busy with work all day Saturday and it was raining off and on all day so I never really had the chance to get out...(read more)

Tension

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:17:00 GMT

I read an article yesterday concerning some pretty bad road rage between a car driver and about 50 cyclists yesterday from Sydney, Australia and was blown away that anyone in a car would take it that far. Well, we got a little taste of that last night...(read more)

Throttle out-of-control

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:07:00 GMT

We had another small group make it's presence for the Thursday Night Pain Fest including J. Fry, Mike J., Mike F., Craig, Finn, Bullerman, Carey, and myself of course. Surprised J. Fry with my camera that he loves so much This was the view that I...(read more)

Throttle control

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:14:00 GMT

We had a whooping six people show up for the group ride last night, probably due to the lower temperatures. I know that it was 55F when I arrived home at 4pm and when I left at 5pm it felt like the temps had already started dropping. I actually went back...(read more)

Too much H2O

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:39:00 GMT

Small group of five on the road ride last night including Mike J., Mike F., Kat, Bottke and myself. With a small group and some fairly ggod winds from the SE we kept it fairly calm and did the New Hartford loop. Mostly just rolling hills with a couple...(read more)

Fitness......it's coming back

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:10:00 GMT

Headed out for a warmup through the park and around Big Woods Lake around 4:45 yesterday afternoon to get ready for the Tuesday Night Group Pain Session. There were a lot of newer faces in the parking lot behind Bike Tech last night including everything...(read more)

Finally getting the time in

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:32:00 GMT

Even though we were bombarded with rain this past week I was still able to get away from the torture of my house (removed 48 gallons of water from my basement in two days) for a couple of hours on each of Saturday and Sunday to log some road miles. Saturday...(read more)

4 Years, 9 days....

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:18:00 GMT

My last night working at Europa Cycle & Ski was last night....16 April 2008. My first day there was 7 April 2004. I did the exact same thing on both nights too. Assembled one bicycle and spent time working the sales floor. I am sure that the bike...(read more)

Time for pain

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:26:00 GMT

I was able to make it to my first group ride of the year last night. It was a smaller group of eight riders of varying abilities which was good for me since my training has been well under the norm so far this year. Hopefully last night's ride was...(read more)

Need to get back...

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:10:00 GMT

...on the blogging track. Things have been a bit crazy around here for the last few weeks so my blogging and my riding have both suffered for it, badly. It seems to rain every day that I am NOT working and of course the weather is perfect every day that...(read more)

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:29:00 GMT

I was able to get out for three consecutive days of riding this week. Amazing. Thursday was going to be a fairly easy spin on the CX bike through Black Hawk but, it turned into a bit of a resistance workout by the time I was heading through the park itself...(read more)

SystemSix out to play

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:09:00 GMT

Had some time to ride on Saturday and opted to take the SystemSix out for a little bit of Iowa asphalt. Kept it pretty short with a 90 minute ride out and about the country roads to see how the snow is melting and how the roads handled the winter weather...(read more)

Wagon walking

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:28:00 GMT

Amy and I took Rhea for a short walk in her wagon yesterday since the weather wasn't too bad. She tends to get a little on the happy side when she gets to go for a ride. Should be interesting to see her in the Burley trailer this year too, she might...(read more)

Share the Road

Official Website of Carl Buchanan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Plates are in. Now go get yours....(read more)