Test Ride: Flywheel – Chicago / Gold Coast

My recent visit to Chicago has prompted me to post this “review” of my first FLY with Flywheel, at their Gold Coast location in the windy city. I can tell you now it was worth the six-hour roundtrip commute! After first dropping in at this location about 9 months ago, just to check it out … Continue reading Test Ride: Flywheel – Chicago / Gold Coast

Concrete Angel 152

Inspiration: Pulled a few tracks out of the archives for this ride...from Stealers Wheel, Vertical Horizon, Lenny Kravitz and Collective Soul. Check out the 2nd track, Red Lights, the recent Tiesto release. Genre: Alternative, Christian, EDM, Pop, Rock Approximate time: 66 minutes (with a second cool down/stretch track) Ride Playlist: What We're Here For - … Continue reading Concrete Angel 152

This Is the New Year 151

Inspiration: Welcome 2014! Just a brief post with a Spotify link to my New Year-theme playlist with about 50 random, motivational tracks to get you started / keep you going into the new year. Mostly current, with a few classics...and something for flat road / hills, seated / standing, sprints / jumps, warm up / … Continue reading This Is the New Year 151

2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see … Continue reading 2013 in review

Joy Ride 150

Inspiration: Last playlist post until 2014 (just a few hours to go). Thanks to a recent post by the Brooklyn Fit Chick (http://brooklynfitchick.com/2013/12/topsongs2013/), a great NIN track is included, along with some other interesting finds (Beautiful People, Change the World, Feed the Dada and Electric Feel). I included a great cool down track from the … Continue reading Joy Ride 150