The Bybee Boys

I managed to get out on the bike yesterday after a week of sitting around doing nothing.  It might have been better to continue a week of doing nothing.  Anyway, as I was heading out to Golden I wiped out crossing the bike path bridge close to REI.  Unfortunately, that was on the way out [...]

I was running a couple of weeks ago and felt a snap in the plantar fascia.  Yikes!!  That ain’t good and it certainly did not feel good.  It hurt like hell immediately after I felt the snap.  I went to see the doctor and he confirmed that I did not rupture the plantar but instead [...]

“Perhaps the genius of ultrarunning is its supreme lack of utility.  It makes no sense in a world of space ships and supercomputers to run vast distances on foot.  There is no money in it and no fame, frequently not even the approval of peers.  But as poets, apostles and philosophers have insisted from the [...]

Much has happened since the HATC posting.  Apparently I was too busy training to post any updates to our blog.  But, the training paid off and on Sunday (8/22) I finished the Leadville 100 (run) and with that, another year of Leadman events.  That makes me the only 4-time Leadman finisher.  The Leadman series is [...]

Our annual High Altitude Training Camp (HATC – pronounced Hot-ka) began on Sunday and Charles and boys relocated to Breck for the week.  Sunday was a good kickoff to the annual week of running and biking excessses.  I managed to get in an 11m trail run in the AM and then got on the mountain [...]

Holy Crap!!  The SJS50 is one seriously hard run.  PLEASE!!  If I ever say, suggest, insinuate, hint, contemplate or consider doing this run again STOP ME.  All that being said, this year’s run when about as expected – the plantar fascia was killing me, the second major climb sucked my will to live and the [...]

The May numbers are in and it turned out to be a reasonable exercise month.  213 miles of running, 90 of those on trail.  226 miles of biking – all road bike mileage at the moment and all crammed in to the last 10 days of the month.  Roughly 55.5 hours of exercise for the [...]

Well . . . the first bike ride of the season is in the books.  I managed to get up early and headed out towards Lookout Mountain from the house.  The closer I got to the foothills/Golden, the windier it got.  Although the orginal plan was to go up Lookout Mountain, I made a mid-ride [...]

Tuesday I headed out for a (late) lunch run and need to go by the house to retrieve something, so I ended up running from the office, around WP and then to the house.  As I got to the house, I was feeling a little weiry and I still had 2.5 miles back to the [...]

The vegetable garden is in the ground!!  After a full weekend of preparing the yard and planting plants and seeds, we are now in the wait and see mode for this year’s garden.  It has been several years since we have done the prepping and planting ourselves (having been in a CSA), but we were excited [...]