While I was training the Race Across America, a reporter from our local paper, The Gazette contacted me about doing a story on RAAM. The reporter was Deb Acord. I’d never met her but I had been enjoying reading her outdoor articles.
We met for coffee one day and she wrote an article on me racing RAAM. She also did a follow up article after RAAM. Unfortunately Deb fell victim to one of the many cuts at The Gazette.
I’ve mainly blogged about cycling and mountain biking because that’s what I do most. Just because I spend more time on my bike doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy other outdoor activities. I regularly hike the Manitou Incline, have done backpacking trips as long as 2 weeks and do hut ski trips.
I’ve been planning to write more hiking, camping and other outdoor posts but I always have more to write about cycling than I have time. I’m very happy to announce that Deb will now be writing outdoor posts here on UltraRob.com.
Please join me in welcoming Deb!
Deb Acord’s Bio
Deb Acord is an award-winning journalist and author based in the Pikes Peak region. Over the past 30 years, her work has been featured in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Rocky Mountain News and Colorado Springs Independent, as well as Hemispheres, Destinations West and Outdoors magazines.
She is the author of three books, “Happy Trails,” “Colorado Winter,” and “Biking Colorado’s Front Range” (Altitude Publishing), and was co-creator of the popular Out There section in the Colorado Springs Gazette, where she wrote exclusively about the Colorado outdoors.
She lives in Woodland Park, Colo. , where she writes from a home she shares with her husband, a musician; a beagle and two cats.
She writes about her life and the outdoors on her blog, rockymtnwriter.blogspot.com
– Rob Lucas
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Awesome Rob! The desert workouts sound intense, but ingenious.