Showing posts with label Mountain Biking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mountain Biking. Show all posts

Aaron Gwin: Riding Mountain Bikes for Jesus

Greg Heil | 7:30 AM | 1 Comment
Aaron Gwin
Photo Credit.
2011 was a big year for the USA in downhill mountain biking: it marked the first time in the history of mountain biking that an American took the overall men's World Cup title! Despite the fact that America was the birth place of mountain biking, it took us 34 or 35 years to grab this title, and it was done by a talented 23 year old by the name of Aaron Gwin.
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4 Logical Fallacies in a Public Letter-to-the-Editor

Greg Heil | 7:00 AM | 1 Comment

Me, mountain biking.
Photo Credit: Garvin Handley
As an English major with a Writing and Publication emphasis and a Philosophy minor, I am constantly thinking how to construct sound, logical arguments and how to spot fallacious, unsupported ones when I see them. You could say that I am a student of logic and argumentation.

I recently read a letter-to-the-editor against mountain bike access to a natural area that was absolutely rife with logical fallacies! You can check out the original here.

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Reveling in Pure Existence

Greg Heil | 7:00 AM | 11 Comments
Trail 401. Taken during our trip to Colorado.
This past August I had a chance to take a week-long vacation to Colorado with my wife and a few of our friends. I basically spent all week mountain biking, camping, eating, and hanging out with people that I love.

I don't know when the last time you pried yourself away from the computer screen, TV, and iPod was (I know that I spend most of my waking moments staring at a screen), but the world outside is glorious!

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