October 31st and the race report is finally up over at the Wend Magazine Blog. Enjoy and Happy Goblins!  We’ll see you at the rock quarry – wa hoo! Share/Bookmark

Rain!  Mud!  It’s coming, it’s coming! I’ve been so patient -- haven’t I?  I have. Therefore I deserve for Barton Park to be downright miserable.  Please, skies, keep dumping! It’s been a goat rodeo over here at Everyday Athlete HQ this week, so I’m sticking you with a link roundup to keep you busy while you wait for [...]

The full race report follows, but I wanted to mention that I’ve recently established a relationship with Wend Magazine and they’ll be publishing these reports as a diary series on their blog this year.  I’m super excited to be hooked up with such a kick-ass group of people.  The mission (below) of the magazine is [...]

I should have known better.We’re racing bikes through what is left of a former insane asylum.  A few rotting concrete walls and several deadly spikes of rebar growing out of the ground here and there are the only remnants of the building that was Dammasch State Hospital, but the ghosts are out in force. I should [...]

Life and circumstances have conspired to keep me from the roller races tonight, but I managed to sneak over to the Oregon Manifest bike show yesterday long enough to ogle some seriously sexy handmade steel, and a few other delights. I’m heading off in every different direction today, but here are some snaps to tide you [...]

Sometimes Portland is so freaking cool it can’t even stand to be in the same room with itself.  I mean, seriously.  The whole over-the-top bike-crazy city thing is what it is, but then there’s totally over-the-top, weekend-long, all-out cycling mayhem. Like Oregon Manifest. Turn out to the show this weekend to see the best of the best [...]