Cycle & Style

Check out this online magazine, Cycle & Style, for women, by women. Yesterday’s post was an interview with Rebecca Rusch of Ketchum.

Cycle & Style also has all kinds of articles and tips about biking and nutrition.

Ride with Rusch contest

You can register to win a weekend riding with Rebecca Rusch.  The drawing will be held on June 27th during the Sun Valley Rhythm and Ride festival.  The winner will get to ride with Rebecca in the fall of 2010.

South Valley Cycling jerseys available

Local rider and graphic designer Andrew Hawley of Hawley Graphics has designed a South Valley Cycling jersey.   If you’re interested in a jersey please contact me.

South Valley Cycling logo by Andrew Hawley

Redfish Lake to Banner Creek Summit ride

We met the gang from the Elephants Perch riding group at a cold but sunny Redfish Lake on Sunday morning.  We got going around 10:30.

We had an accident in the group early, Terry from TF hit a wheel and went down hard.  He broke his collar bone in two places.  Note ** Always check your bike before riding, make sure brakes are working!  He went down right in front of Jim and me so we saw the whole thing.  His helmet saved his noggin, for sure.

The rest of the ride went well, 3 flat tires – one was mine.  We had Cheryl’s little cutie, Emma, along to provide entertainment.  What an easy child to be around, she was very happy.

Redfish was just beautiful.  It was about 75 by the time we got back.  Perfect for sitting on the lawn and recovering from the ride.

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Riding back into Stanley

Bogus Basin hill climb information

Cycle Folsom has a file with information about last years Bogus Basin hill climb. It includes statistics and an interesting report with photos.

Last year it was so cold riding down I had to stop a couple times to warm up.

Training tips for hill climbs and century

Here are some training tip links from Bicycling Magazine:

Centuries and all-day spins are pure joy when you follow these tips.

How to climb like a mountain goat without killing yourself.

To stand or not to stand? Learn how proper positioning and timing can maximize your power on climbs.

Descending can be the most exhilarating aspect of cycling–after you master these basics.

Like Lance Armstrong proved with his Tour wins, spinning in a high cadence helps you climb longer and faster

Six ways to reach the top faster, easier–and with less pain.

Sawtooth Century 2008

Good weather, good friends and good riding!  We started out with the group of 150 or so from Ketchum Saturday August 16, 2008.  It’s fun to ride through Ketchum and down Hwy. 75 to Elkhorn road with a police escort and the cars all stopped on the side of the road for you.  Elkhorn hill always breaks up the crowd.  We got into a group from Saddle Rd. to the SNRA where we made a pit stop.  Then on to Galena Lodge where we stopped briefly before crossing the timer for the king/queen of the hill competition.  It was slow (for me) up Galena, but steady.  The ride down and into Alturas was great with very little wind for once. 

We had a nice lunch at Alturas and quickly headed back out towards Galena.  This time the ride up Galena was even slower for me but I made it.  Going down was great and Jim and I really were moving until about Prairie Creek where we hit a head wind which got stronger as we neared Ketchum. 

No fire this year!  That is good news.  It was perfect with very little wind and it seemed like everyone was having fun.  We saw lots of friends on the ride and after.  I’ll post a link to the results if I ever find them.

Nice ending to week with Galena metric century

Monday Marsha and I had a good ride out Greenhorn, with a workout called microbursts on Greenhorn road.  We planned to join the festivities in Hailey for the “music walk”.  We ended up at the Brewery with Ken and Jim meeting us for dinner.  It was great to see so many people out and about in Hailey.

Thursday we planned a ride up to Twin Creeks.  Josie joined Marsha, Jim and me for a while, until East Fork.  She’s still getting over her knee injury.  Marsha and I continued up to Elkhorn and caught up with Jim coming down TC.  We had a good ride, Marsha’s first up that road.

Sunday Jim and I met Marsha and Andy and Jennifer at the SNRA building.  We rode up to the top of the summit.

Marsha arriving at Galena Lodge

Jim and rider from Baltimore watching Marsha summit

I ended up riding home from the SNRA, so I got in 65 miles.  I was dead by the time I got home.  It’s no fun riding into a headwind by yourself.  I spend 3 hours recuperating and watching the tour until I felt alive again.

Sawtooth Century deadline July 16

I found the link to the Sportsbase Online signup for the Sawtooth Century.  If you sign up on or before July 16, Wednesday, you save $15.  The price until Wed. is $60 and after July 16 the entry fee is $75.

Mt. Harrison climb

Saturday, July 12, 2008. We took some pictures during the hill climb. It was 12 miles and all uphill. 4,000 ft. elevation gain. It was a fun ride, though, pretty country and not many cars on the road.

Here is a link to the photos on Picasa.

Mt. Harrison hill climb with Elephant’s Perch riding group