My Blog

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Feb

Skiing is in my blood.  I started skiing when I was 8, taught skiing in college, taught my daughter to ski and I'm now racer chaser for my 14 year old granddaughter Ellie, who's on the Snowbird Ski Team.  Never mind that I was paralyzed in a diving accident in college. Initially quadriplegic, I recovered enough to ski again, although not as well.  But I enjoyed quite a few years as a strong intermediate before age and a deteriorating spinal cord ended my stand up skiing days.  Enter adaptive

2019

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Sep

Utah's High School Mountain Bike Racers are Gnarly and Tough. I've been fortunate to be trail side at this summer's slate of Utah High School Cycling League mountain bike races  thanks to my granddaughter Ellie. She's on the Sprocket Rockets, a development team for Brighton High School where she'll be a freshman next year.  That's Ellie leading the way at Snow Basin in the photo above. She's fast.  While she doesn't win every race, she's always in the top five or six in the advanced Junior

2018

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Aug

From two wheels to three with a recumbent trike. My search is over.  From now on, I'll be rolling along Utah's cycling routes on a three wheel recumbent trike in the form of a fluorescent orange Catrike Expedition.  I began my quest for a new ride when waning balance and agility made riding my two wheel carbon fiber Cannondale Synapse a bit risky.  I had originally looked at a step-through frame Scott E-bike, or a three wheel recumbent E-trike.  The "E" stands for electric.  My new ride

2018

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Jul

The time has come.  An aging spinal cord injury has me looking at alternative wheels to get me down the road.  For the last four decades, I've been pedaling hither and yon on some version of a bicycle--Schwinn, Raleigh, Specialized, Giant, Cannondale, and so on.  Ever since my broken neck and paralysis, cycling has been my therapy, my exercise, my freedom.  I walk like a wounded duck, but once mounted and clipped in, I ride pretty well.  Not far and not fast, but I ride.  The problem is,

2018