Bike Storage Tips November and December are perfect times to get your bike ready for the upcoming riding season. If you do not have time to do this yourself, drop your bike off at a local bike shop for a maintenance check before storing it for the winter. Most bike shops have special deals...
Work 2 Ride
2025 Women’s Dirt Shredder MTB Trip Highlights! The women’s 2025 Dirt Shredder MTB weekend kicked off Friday, Oct. 3, with registration and a safety bike check at Riverbrook Bike Shop. Coaches instructed participants on fundamental mountain bike skills and guided them on an afternoon ride at the Hatchery Creek South/North Loop. Following the ride,...
Healthy Summer Recipes
Transform your kitchen table with these delicious and healthy recipes! By Jenny Breen As a chef and public health nutrition educator, and an active person focused on endurance sports, I am always thinking about the ideal combination of deliciousness, nutrition, and energy. As a post menopausal woman (I just turned 60 and am thrilled...
Four Gifts of Cycling
Mountain biking offers the gift of confidence, adventure, community, and mental health. By Kim Rudd I purchased a new road bike with my babysitting money when I was around 14 years old. I grew up in Roseville, a suburb just northeast of Minneapolis. As a young teen, I remember riding out into the country,...
Women’s Mountain Bike & Pilates
Meet Your Instructors Kim Rudd Kim Rudd founded Endurance Adventures. Her passion for Nordic skiing began while she was racing in high school and was exposed to the famous Minnesota Finlandia. She continued to ski race in college at Bemidji State University, where she met her soulmate and adventure partner, Craig Rudd. Kim has...
Chasing Gold in Tandem
Reid Goble, Peter Wolters, and Jake Adicoff team up for the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games Goble/Adicoff Story I enjoyed interviewing World Cup skier Reid Goble and three-time Paralympian Jake Adicoff about their recent races at the 2025 FIS Para Cross-country World Championships in Toblach, Italy. I hope their stories excite Endurance Adventure’s readers to watch next year’s 2026...
Mother’s Day Memories
Mother’s Day Memories from the Endurance Adventure Newsletter Readers Hands down, my favorite Mother’s Day adventure took place last spring, when I hiked on the TMB Trail in Italy with my two girls. The spring wildflowers were in full bloom as we hiked a section of the trail from the base of Courmayeur, Italy....
Healthy Spring Recipes
Protein Meals to Fuel Your Engine! My youngest daughter, Leah, enjoys preparing healthy home-cooked meals that provide extra protein and carbohydrates for her busy schedule as an athlete and nurse. Below are a few recipes for breakfast and dinner meals to fuel your upcoming spring endurance adventures! Oatmeal Blueberry Banana Pancakes These hearty and...
Shooting for the Stars
U.S. World Cup Nordic and Biathlon Skier Luci Anderson’s Story I recently had the pleasure of interviewing World Cup Nordic and Biathlon skier Luci Anderson while she was competing at the Spring Swix Cup SuperTour Nordic Finals in Lake Placid, NY. A few days prior, she had won the 10 km freestyle Individual race....
Blueberry Soup & Dala Horse Tales
Highlights from the 2025 Swedish Vasaloppet My grandfather, Karl Johnson, was thirteen when he came to America in 1913. His family of eight was from Emmaboden, Sweden. He passed away when my mother was only eighteen years old, so I know him only through photos and stories. It is doubtful his family had the...