One of BIG Picture’s newest athletes Marvin Hall put the first notch in the 2016 win column for BPC this past weekend! Absolutely smoking everyone in his age category and then hoping in the Pro/1/2 race for a little more “training”! Way to go Marvin! Looking forward to how many total wins and podiums BPC […]
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I recently caught one of the early commercials promoting the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. I could watch these over and over and it would still bring goose bumps to my arms and leave an excitement in my veins. Knowing some of the athletes in the commercials, understanding what this moment means to them, understanding what […]
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Who doesn’t love a little football player training montage, mixed with some music from the Friday Night Lights movie? Add in a speech on what it really means to want something and you’ve got a first class reality check. Let me tell you about my experience after I watched this video. The first time I […]
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What do you want to achieve this year? Write it down. Now, what do you need to do to achieve this? Write that down. What kind of support do you need to make those things happen? Write that down. What do you need to change in your life to let those people, help you do […]
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Holiday season got you down? Well at least it’s you’re not having a Griswald style Christmas! Well, hopefully you’re not! This is video is a clip one of my favorite scenes from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, where they discover a squirrel hidden away in their obnoxiously large Christmas tree. Now I’m all for over decorating […]
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To go along with This week’s sponsor highlight – a little TLC recipe for your chain! Your chain is one of the most unappreciated parts of your bike. We always depend on our chains to”just work”, but for one of the most heavily stressed parts of our bikes, very few people show their chains the […]
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For many, the turn of a new year marks a short lived sprint to health and fitness goals that will only be met by dissolution that says, “meh, I’ve tried that and it was too hard and didn’t really work”. For most reading this, you’re well ahead of that curve and already doing really big […]
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One of our favorite terms when I was training for the 2008 Olympics was “Rocky Up”. It was a phrase coined by our coach, multi time World and Olympic medalist, Erin Hartwell. Over the years it’s been used to mean a multitude of different things from getting locked away in Siberia and lifting tree logs, to […]
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Pretty self-explanatory. I heard this phrase first at 14 years old. Our ski coach had it printed on shirts for us. I thought it was just some old corny phrase, but soon found how genius it was. When we wore our team shirts, it was a reminder that everything we choose to do with our […]
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Have you ever grumbled about making your bed or just thought about skipping it altogether? Well, news flash – making your bed is about as mundane and thankless a task as any you’ll come across. It’s a task that either goes answered or unanswered every day we’re fortunate enough to throw two feet on the […]
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