As you may recall back in February, I was splitting time between two of the three Elevation Cycles locations- Downtown and Boulder (after being uprooted from the Highlands Ranch store by a coworker who was, to say the least, unfriendly). Not long after my schedule started creeping into being Boulder-heavy, it was announced that the next week (March 1st), the store sold to two new owners\u00a0and would no longer be a part of Elevation Cycles.<\/p>\n
Nick, the owner of Elevation, who I’d met at 24 Worlds just months before, gave me a choice of staying at the Denver\/Highlands Ranch locations of Elevation, or “quitting” Elevation and starting at the new shop. Considering that my Boulder co-workers and I got along really well and\u00a0the unfriendly coworker that I’d fled from was still working with no repercussions for his unfriendliness, the choice was pretty easy to make.<\/p>\n
I don’t know that all of my Boulder co-workers were given the same option.<\/p>\n
Anyways…<\/p>\n
I’m incredibly happy with the people I work with. They all race bikes (and they’re all really<\/em> good at it). They’re all incredibly nice\/funny\/fun to hang out with. I look forward to going to work in the mornings. The fact that they’re all good bike racers has provided me with renewed motivation to get out of “winter blues” shape and prep for a few local bike races this summer. I’ve been riding four days per week and lifting\/doing super-power-yoga two days per week, along with my usual jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai classed at night.<\/p>\n Oh yeah- and the name of the new shop? Republic Cycles Boulder<\/a>… a nod to the term “People’s Republic of Boulder” and “The Boulder Bubble.”<\/p>\n Part of my training plan is using the program TrainerRoad<\/a>. Because of the limited time I have to ride, it’s a boon to my reclaiming of fitness. If you’ve never used it, and you aren’t afraid to ride indoors, I highly recommend it. It’s like having a coach, but for $8 a month. I know a lot of people who despise the trainer and get bored within 5 minutes. Those are usually the same people who hop on with no plan other than to watch a tv show or movie. If you use it as a hard\/fast training tool, you won’t have time to be bored. Get on, warm up, do an interval workout, cool down… done. You’ve knocked out an hour to hour & a half before you realize it, and you’ve done something incredibly meaningful for your fitness.<\/p>\n That’s where I am now. I have added on some extra riding on Tuesdays and Saturdays (my days off). I was able to do a Saturday threshold workout on Lookout Mountain and last Tuesday, after I did my morning trainer intervals, took some out-of-town friends on a ride up and over Green Mountain. I’m looking to crush it at the Beti Bike Bash<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n