Personal blog of Paul Donohoe has been moved from this location to 

www.pauldonohoe.com 

Hope to see you there!

-Paul

CVSC Gunners Vs River Valley Chelsea Sept9 2017 - Video Posted

Video posted from CVSC Gunners vs River Valley Chelsea, Sept 9, 2017 at UCSB Rob Gym Field.

Hallmark Everest Truck Camper for Sale in Southern CA

Due to our family outgrowing the unit I'm selling our 2014 Hallmark Everest Pop-Up truck camper.  Unit is 8-1/2' long and is suitable for standard bed 3/4 ton or better full size trucks.   After literally years of research I chose this Hallmark pop-up because it is much more road worthy than a larger/heavier Lance, Bigfoot or Arctic Fox hardwall style units and Hallmarks are much nicer and more spacious than competing pop-ups from Outfitter, Sixpac, Northstar or others.

See Craiglist posting for additional details: 

https://santabarbara.craigslist.org/rvs/6203886129.html 

Become an Urban Monk

I've been a student of the game when it comes to trying to stay young, healthy and vibrant and one of the Author/Speakers whose work I've been really digging on lately is Pedram Shojai who just released a new book called The Urban Monk.   I've just started to work my way through it, but it seems to really be hitting the mark for what a "householder" can do to live the good life.
Check out info on Pedram's newly launched book here:  

Ride On!

Xtracycle Edgerunner Electric Cargo Bike for Sale - Price Reduced $2950!

For sale is a brand new Xtracycle Electric Edgerunner cargo bike with 600Watt mid-drive motor kit including a high capacity 48Volt 13Amp-Hr Li-Ion battery pack.
Bike is for sale in Santa Barbara with free local pick-up or may be delivered for negotiated fee depending on distance etc.

 Bike Highlights:
- Xtracycle Chrome Moly Edgerunner Frame - Size S/Med, adjustable for riders 5'2" up to ~6'
- Shimano Deore Hydraulic disc brakes
- 9 Speed Shimano Deore Shifter and Rear Derailleur 
- Scwalbe Big Ben Tires
- Pair of deluxe Xtracycle X2 cargo bags with Tags still attached
- Mini Magic Carpet seat cushion.  
- Kick-Back super stable dual legged kick-stand
- Rear fender
- Heavy duty wood/ aluminum running boards. (easily removable if not needed)

E-Bike Feature Highlights
- Cycle Analyst LCD Speed/Information Display Panel
- High Capacity 48Volt - 13Amp-Hr All-Cell Li-Ion battery pack with extruded aluminum mount
- Mid drive motor with heavy duty mounting kit designed for Xtracycle

See Listing at: http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/bik/5063476656.html

A great deal at $2950
Call eight 0 five - six eight zero - 0741

Surly Big Dummy For Sale

SOLD
I'm selling a brand new fully loaded and upgraded Surly Big Dummy Cargo Bike in Medium, in black.   You can contact me here through this blog or see my posting on Craigslist.    Make your soccer mom into a happy bike commuter starting this winter!

Craigslist Ad

Montecito front country MTB

Awesome November morning loop in Chris' back yard.
Severe clear weather, light breeze and super well groomed fire roads, single track.  Thank you Forest Service and especially, thank you trail gnomes!

Strava Data Here

Gonna be tough to clean that wall

A gift for only the well to do Starbucks fan girls

Wow, just when I thought I'd seen it all....
Just in time for the Holidays, here's a $150 net cost gift card key fob in Sterling Silver.
I gotta believe this is a product that Starbucks is only offering in select high net worth locales such as Montecito or Beverly Hills, CA.  I'd love to know how these are selling, anyone got data on this?

The Other Guys

The core of the Polli Veloce reserve squad, Brian, Alan and Paul enjoyed a beautiful spin up East  Camino Cielo while the "A Team" who actually made it onto Cuttler's email invite list are still down on Paradise Road.

Hollywood Crisis YouTube Playlist Created

Santa Barbara Youth Music Academy Band:

Hollywood Crisis Playlist has now been posted on my YouTube Channel

Jake's Drumming Playlist has been Posted to YouTube

First Videos Posted to this Playlist on YouTube are from Jake's Drum Recital in Goleta - Sept 28 2014

Thanks to Craig Thatcher and Barry at the Drum Lab and all the others who supported.

Happy Big 5-0 Patrick in 1080P

16 Weeks Out from SB Triathlon

With 100 mile week in the saddle, a 10k run and a 1000 yards swim under my belt last week, this week I'm shooting for 120 miles on the bike a 12k run and yesterday I ticked off a 1200 yard swim.

Today I was about as strong as I've ever been on the road bike for the 50 minute hill climb up toward Gibralter road I hit 3 PR's and a bunch of 2nd and 3 best on Strava Segments both climbing and descending.  Fun times....

Decent Tri Training Week

I'm thinking a consistent 10 hours/week of training with adequate sleep and recovery will be adequate to enable me to prepare to attack the Santa Barbara Triathlon.
This week felt like a pretty good week to get things going, with 7 hours 50 minutes of combined training load between riding, running and swimming.   I did hit my goals of 100 miles in the saddle and running a 10K in one workout (just under 8 minutes per mile pace).  Also, I did my first ever 1000 yard swimming workout in the pool which took about 25 minutes with ample rests between laps.

So now that I've shown myself capable of doing some minimal amount of running and swimming, it's time to start putting some structure to my workouts and the last barrier now is to increase my hours of sleep.

10K Run on Ellwood Bluffs

Pretty incredible views tonight running along the cliffs overlooking the ocean at Ellwood.   Bagged my Strava 10K Challenge for April, which was nice.

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Choosing my Triathlon Training Plan

The Santa Barbara Triathlon is a bit of an odd beast to plan for because it is not quite a "full half" Ironman Distance, but it is longer than most typical courses.  I've decided to pursue the 20 week in duration 70.3 "Half" training plan available at BeginnerTriathlete.com (http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/training-plans-view.asp?planid=16) as the basic template for my training and I'll just have to hope that I have enough base fitness that I will not sting myself too bad by jumping in at week 3 of the Prep period.  
The bt.com plan calls for 7-11 hour training load weeks,  and up to now I've been able to achieve only 6 hours/week with any kind of consistency and that includes my time spinning 90RPM on my bike commute, riding my pedelec.  So, it's time to carve out some more training hours on the calendar.

Tuesday, yesterday/day 0, I got out for a 5K evening trail run at ~7:30 pace after about 12.5 commuter miles on the bike, while today I got about 50 minutes and 1400' of hill climbing after a mile mile commuter load.  Tomorrow I plan to get in some swim time.

Preparing for my first Tri

I've decided to prepare myself to compete in this year's Santa Barbara Triathlon long course.  The event will be held Sat Aug 23, just about 19 weeks from now.

My plan is to post regular updates here as I work to dial in my training program so that I will be prepared to attack all three legs of the event.   Comments and advice are welcome.

Labor Day 'Date' Ride

We snuck in a fun little Labor Day road bike loop for Mom & Dad, making it work in between kids soccer in the morning and afternoon.

A couple more photos on-line here.

Painted Cave Road Ride - Aug 11

A couple photos from remnants of Team Polli Veloce, (Nikola, Mike, and I), got out for a little hill climbing over the top of the ridge on another beautiful day in Goleta.

Funny how when you turn the camera just right it can make a 10% uphill grade appear to be downhill.  Nikola's happy face contributes to the illusion making you think he's rolling downhill rather than hammering up lower painted cave.
Of course you can't go anywhere in this town without running into someone you know and Nikola slowed down to chat with a friend who was leading a group running through Painted Cave Village.

Road Bike Climbing in (and to) Paradise

A little wetness made the descent down Old San Marcos just a bit interesting. The sloppiness really did cap off a pretty awesome road bike outing with Fastrack, Cutler, Coach Doyle and myself.  We all just needed a  bike wash after.

Dave somehow managed to bust a spoke nipple loose on his front wheel w/o losing its true or slowing him down at all.

My Garmin showed 38 miles and 4500 feet of climbing in 2 hrs, 45 minutes, fun stuff. Thanks for a nice outing boys.


Picasa Gallery, Road Bike Climbing in (and to) Paradise
Photo Gallery (sorry for the lousy focus on a couple images, operator/rider error):