Archive for October, 2007
Hampsten on Elba
Monday, October 8th, 2007Pick up a copy of the latest issue of Outside’s Go. I wrote the cover story about a cycling trip I took with Andy Hampsten in Italy this summer. Hampsten, who is the only American to ever win the Giro d’Italia, runs tours in Italy that merge intense riding with an intelligent immersion in Italian […]
Baseball Has Been Very, Very Bad to My Work Schedule
Monday, October 8th, 2007How can I be expected to work with this happening? This has been a fantastic baseball postseason so far—swarms of locusts descending on the Yankees, Manny Ramirez putting the emphatic in walkoff, the Yankees clawing back in it, Josh Beckett and Curt Schilling pitching like Koufax and Drysdale, small markets knocking off Chicago and Philadelphia, […]
Epicurian Epic
Friday, October 5th, 2007Last fall, Marshall McKinney and I embarked on a gut-wrenching three-day, 90-mile, 14,000-vertical ride on the Colorado Trail in Summit County. The rub was that we rode unsupported but stayed at the Breckenridge Hyatt and a condo at Copper Mountain—so that we could lounge in the hot tubs and catch the first week of the […]
The Whole Enchilada
Friday, October 5th, 2007I spent last weekend on assignment for Bike in the Abajo Mountains south of Moab with photographer Lin Alder and bike reps Todd Kerbs and Willy Warren (and last-minute sub T.J. from Poison Spider, who was not afraid to ride in rain and mud). We also got a chance to ride the Whole Enchilada—a 30-some-mile, […]