Katy Steudel

I did the Burnsville Metric (a metric century of about 60 miles, or whatever it equates to) many weekends ago. It’s a ride, not a race, and about two thirds of it is flat and fast along a river, with the last third climbing back up to the town and fairly hilly. From the way people [...]

Ok, if you didn’t like the last post involving people you don’t know and gallery shopping you don’t particularly care for, never fear. Everyone’s guaranteed to like this one. Hawk Cam is, as you might guess, a camera trained on a hawk’s nest in Madison, WI. Watch as the hawk parents rip up small mammals and feed [...]

Last week, my three aunts (one each from Northern Wisconsin, California and North Carolina, natch) and my step mom Sue visited Asheville on their tour of the south. We checked out the Woolworth Walk and one of the other artist galleries downtown, just shopping along. Even though I saw all sorts of cool stuff, I only [...]

I wish I could come up with a better name for this post, but it’s just not forthcoming. On Sunday I skipped out on Take a Kid Mountain Biking (I thought it would be canceled due to rain, alright?! I want to help the children, truly!) and did the ‘Heartbreak’ ride for the first time with [...]

This past Thursday Night’s Bent Creek ride. Everyone looks so thrilled to be out :S To be fair, this was towards the top of an eight mile climb. We were waiting for the second group to meet us before taking to the trails.

If you haven’t seen it yet, my second article for fat-bike.com is up HERE.I like to think of this adventure as The Romantic Waterfall Tour for One.I also did some trail work that morning- that’s in the article, too.It’s a kind of different approach than Wisconsin uses!

My buddy Pete and his girlfriend Adrienne were in town from Milwaukee, and my work load for the week was light, so we ran around all sorts of places! We went for a hike in Bent Creek, did dinner at Mayfel’s downtown, got ice cream at Ultimate Ice Cream and Adrienne and I spent most of [...]

Last weekend we had a full house, with four friends from Cleveland in town for a training week. The house is only around 900 sq feet, so we had to stash two guys in the unfinished attic. Bless their hearts, they survived the extreme temperature swings up there. I only participated in one ride, but it was [...]

When I took my Pugsley into Youngblood’s to get some replacement bolts for the ones that had worked their way off of my crank, my mechanic friend Aaron got the gleam in his eye, and I think we both knew he had to ride it. He had never seen a Pugsley in real life and was excited [...]

I was invited to a regatta on Saturday and threw this together a few hours before. It’s a plastic container from some dried apple slices, some foam core spray-painted silver, some scraps of interior decorating fabric, and copious amounts of hot glue. Hot glue, thank you for all of the hasty crafting you make possible. Loovvee yoouuu. Unfortunately I [...]

Is your bar tape gross? Here’s a tip for you: Simple Green. I know it’s not really revolutionary, but maybe you don’t know how well it works on bar tape of all levels of filth. Here’s my before picture. The Gios Torino has been outside on the covered porch all winter, and it had some weird kind [...]

The Unhappiest Easter Egg. The parents said their child imagined the egg being very sad that it was boiled and couldn’t go on being a raw egg. An anthropomorphic eggplant at Amazing Savings. Pretty light from a neon sign in a window. Some Prana shorts that I bought on the cheap to fix up. They fit like we were [...]

Robb and I were running to get ice cream one night and stopped by the local swimming hole to scope it out. It’s a kind of man made deeper pool in the river. Word is that it’s really crowded in the summer on hot days, and it gets a lot of traffic from the nearby soccer [...]

Last weekend I attended a Specialized Demo Day out at Alexander Park. It was a really nice drive (and I should have ridden out there, despite my full schedule of lazing about and also shopping) along the river out to the park. The trails were pretty interesting, as a small park goes, but I wish there [...]

It’s been too long! Things are still trucking right along, I’ve just been busy with work (yay!) and other life-things. To sum it up, A) I haven’t had the time to blog and B) These activities lack pretty pictures (working and interviewing doesn’t often produce interesting photos) so I figured I’d spare everyone. But! I went on [...]

A few times this past month or so I’ve described these photos to a person or two. I was painting the bathroom and the cat, being the mamma’s boy he is (particularly when he was an indoor-only cat) sat on the chair with me and watched me paint. They’re nearly two years old, but gosh if I [...]

Robb was away for the weekend, so I made him a present.Patterns were on sale at the fabric store for 99 cents, so I picked up a bunch, including a ‘letters of the alphabet’ pattern set.Money well spent.

Such lovely weather! It rained off and on the whole ride but it totally didn’t matter. Because guess what? I have a JOB! After a frightening month and a half without one (that’s enough, trust me), I got an unexpected call to do some freelance for Cane Creek. It feels great to be back in the [...]

I’m in a book club, and one of the women in it, Ece, runs a Wine and Design place. For my friend Laura’s birthday, she decided to hold a get-together at Ece’s Wine and Design. It’s basically a place you can go to drink wine, eat snacks and paint with acrylics, resulting in a buzz and [...]

On Sunday, Robb and I went out for a short 2 hour ride. We just rode out the door and hit up some farmland around Asheville. There were some hills, but we avoided any sustained climbing, which is nice every once in a while. The ride had some good views and I was perfectly warm in [...]