That's an odd piece of advice, one might think, but sometimes you have to look at the big picture by ignoring what's in front of you.

Take cyclocross racing - there are a lot of these events. Each of them seems to be important and for those that we deem the most important, these are often prepared for by going to the preceding 'cross races....so to miss a race often feels like you're undermining your later performances.

But, life happens. Crashes. Injuries. Sickness. Such is the case of two Edge champion athletes - Kona's Ryan Trebon crashed last weekend and he made the difficult decision to stay home and heal...and thus missing the two Boulder Cups this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado.

Eyes on the prize, eyes on the prize...heal up, and come back stronger.

In his stead, Team Jamis rider Adam Snyder spent the better part of the weekend's double header hoping barriers rather than running them.






On the other side of the world, Edge athlete Jonathan Page make the tough call to skip the Superprestige Hoogstraten in Belgium while nursing a respiratory infection. With the up coming World Cup in Nommay, France this weekend, like Trebon, its better to access your cards, and hedge your bets on resting, healing, and looking at the big picture by managing the details.

In between 60 degree sunny days, Utah has given us some powder days. With the eyes on the prize, you've still got to get out and clip in....regardless.



Xterra World's silver medalist Nico Lebrun stopped by the Edge offices to talk shop, Hawaiian experiences, and 2010. Pretty impressive to have that caliber of athlete simply excited to talk about hoops!



Custom and customer's submissions have started arriving here at Edge. Be it a custom bike build, such as this one by Cycle Path in Portland....



Or Christian Leask's trail mauler single speed 29'er.



It was difficult to really understand much of what was coming from his overly excited phone call, but I did catch something about a perma-grin-face-cramp when he was talking about the wheels and riser bar, but that might have been the single track talking.