There is a saying about the Portland area, or the Pacific Northwest in general. “It always rains in (insert city)”. The truth is it doesn’t. Portland gets about as much rain annually as Manchester, NH. I used that as my reference point when we where trying to decide if we wanted to move here or…
Echo Red to Red
Did my first mountain bike race of the year (and first since last year too) out in Echo, OR at the Echo Red to Red race. Conditions were so much better compared to last year. I think we topped out in the mid 30’s last year, while this year we made it into the low…
Methow Valley
For the President’s Day Weekend Mia and I both took Friday and Tuesday off from work and made the looooonnnnggg trip up to the Methow Valley in Washington. We stayed in Mazama just 12 miles outside of Winthrop. It’s a 7-ish hour drive from the PDX area up to Winthrop. This was one of the…
Not What I Intended
So, I had a whole logging road route planned out for today, it had the potential to be quite epic. HOWEVER, I screwed up and didn’t write down the name of one of the roads I wanted to turn onto from Scoggins Valley Road. I knew all the logging roads, wrote down the mileage to…
Dixie Mtn Road to Smoke Ranch
So, I’ve whined (bitched?) about not being able to mountain bike from my front door like I used to in NH. However, just a short 10 miles away is the start of some pretty spectacular gravel roads that can lead you up into the logging roads of the Tualatin Mountains. I’ve talked about Dixie Mtn…
Not too bad a start
As I pointed out last week, I do much better when I have goals and a plan to get there. This past week was the “official” start to my 2015 goals. I was planning on 9 hours of exercise, and ended up with 10.5. Run my required runs for the half marathon training and was…
ON & OFF RHODES 