http://www.nathanrtaylor.com "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it." Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:54:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been thinking about this for a while, and I think it's getting to be time to upgrade my groupset on my bike. My current groupset is Shimano Dura-Ace 7700 9-speed, which is functioning perfectly, but hasn't been manufactured for almost ten years. I've looked at the new offerings from SRAM ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/making-the-switch/ Dusk falls, lights aglow. Wind stalls, pedals flow. An evening ride begins. Breath tightens, muscles burn. Senses heighten, pedals turn. Writing verses on the wing. Creatures rise, temperatures fall. Nightbirds chastise, backroads call. Spinning circles into Spring. http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/an-evening-ride/ Today the temps in Nashville rose to around 50 degrees. A perfect day to sit in the office and work on powerpoint presentations, which is exactly what I did. Fortunately I hadn't planned on wasting every minute of temperate daylight and met up with Brad, Jay, Todd, and Shawn from ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/thawsome-start-to-the-weekend/ It's been a Frozen Wasteland in middle Tennessee for long enough that last weekend I got excited about a group ride in 35 degree weather. Even though the novelty of moving forward while pedaling didn't wear off for the entire 50 miles, it took a full load of laundry to ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/baba-snoreilly/ Originally published on www.harpethracing.com copyright Harpeth Racing 2010 all rights reserved. I had been looking forward to this race since my DNF four weeks ago in January. After an early dinner and a good, if fitful night's sleep, Jonathan and I were geared up by 7:30am and headed to the ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/2010-snake-creek-gap-tt-2-race-report/ Last night's class at Endeavor Performance illustrated a point that I knew but hadn't thought about in a while; the relationship between pedaling cadence and heart rate. We warmed up as usual for about 15 minutes at an easy 60% of lactate threshold, then started into short tempo intervals (80% ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/obvious-but-interesting-nonetheless/ Last week's freak snowstorm (in Nashville, every snowstorm is treated like a freak snowstorm) made me realize that I couldn't put off getting new tires for the Civic any longer. I'm all for countersteering on two wheels, but sliding sideways at 10 mph with the steering wheel locked in the ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/tires/ That's the weather forecast for Saturday, February 6th in Dalton Georgia. If you read my post about Snake Creek Gap #1, you'll know why this is a good thing. I would gladly take sunny and a high of 47 degrees over cloudy, windy, and 8 degrees with windchill. With that in ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/thatll-do-dont-change-a-thing/ After almost three weeks of cold, last Saturday arrived with amenable conditions for a team ride. Temperatures were in the high 40s, winds were light and variable, skies were overcast. Brad, our ride coordinator and Team Vice President, planned the ride for the warmest three hours of the day. We ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/jonathan-saves-the-day/ ...When this solution was proposed. I saw this post on Make Magazine's Blog while sittingn Portland Brew with Daryl and Carolyn from the Mid TN SORBA (southern offroad bicycle association). We met today to discuss rebuilding the www.sorbamidtn.org website in Wordpress. The Make Magazine article states that the scientists had attempted to ... http://www.nathanrtaylor.com/id-like-to-have-been-in-the-room/