Yellow dry grass at Scottsdale Soccer Complex I am in week 4 of London Marathon training. Long runs are getting longer. Today, I ran for an hour and 45 minutes for 12.5 miles. I haven’t run the Scottsdale Soccer Complex in a long time. Today I decide to run circles around it. As I approached, […]
N Scottsdale
Off to LA
We are in LA for Dana’s piano recital tomorrow. We flew this evening and saw an amazing sunset as we landed in Burbank, CA. We went straight to a lovely formal dinner complete with name tags at Dana’s aunt’s house in Chatsworth. It was an eclectic collection of folks with varied interests and professions ranging […]
Slow ride up, fast down
I started the bike ride with Bicycle Ranch this morning and went North on Scottsdale Road to the Shell Gas Station in Carefree off Tom Darlington. It was an unusually slow ride going north. My heart rate was barely in to the 110s for the entire first hour! Shelly, Katie and I split off and […]
The fish didn’t bite and Carrie is for real
The intensity continues to build for my training sessions. Today, I biked for 4 hours with lots of hills in North Scottsdale and Fountain Hills. I started north on Pima, up Happy Valley all the way to Jomax, down Jomax to Alma School to the Shell gas station on Dynamite. From there, I went cruising […]
50+ miles in Scottsdale
I met Shelly at Armitage today to bike south to Hidden Hills. It was a gorgeous afternoon with light winds and barely any traffic. We rode a bit slowly averaging just about 15MPH for the hilly ride. Ride Elevation for 50+ miler in N Scottsdale For the second half of the ride I picked up […]
Towers ride
North Scottsdale has some really good bike routes. There are flats, gentle hills and grades that exceed 20%. You can go on a 10-mile ride or you can do a century (although you will go into one of the neighboring suburbs). Kristi, Shelly and Mark came over to my place at around 1PM for a […]
“Good ride”
I went solo on my 2-hour bike ride in North Scottsdale. It was chilly when I started but quickly warmed up. Surprisingly, there weren’t too many bicyclists out and traffic was subdued. North Scottsdale has some good riding with great views of the McDowell Mountains and nice wide bike lanes on most roads. While there […]