Alyssa Roenigk sports • adventure • travel • journalist

Okay, you’ve decided to start riding with us. (Yay!) First things first: You need a bike. There are about a zillion types of riding—mountain biking, road cycling, beach riding, BMX—but from here on out, I’ll assume you are taking up road cycling. When Lindsay and I were looking for bikes, the first thing we did…

I spent the past week in New York City, experiencing The Big Apple as a visitor for the first time in a decade. It was so much fun. My return trips as a guest star in our New York office are my new favorite bonus of living on the West Coast. However, it is unseasonably…

Check out my most recent Action Sports Report (or ASR) on espnthemag.com, which posted today, and will post every Tuesday from here until eternity. While you’re on the site, take a minute to vote for 2008 NEXT athlete of the year. Not that I’m trying to influence your voting (I would never do such a…

As if one blog wasn’t enough (two blogs is company!), today marks the debut of my new espnthemag.com action sports blog, which (I think) will post every Wednesday. Check it out here. Of course, the new blog won’t change the frequency of this blog, or its content. It will just give me more work to…

Nicole Sanchez, Maui photographer extraordinaire, e-mailed me some shots from my day of stand-up paddling with the Fabulous Maui Surfer Girls. She’s clearly a fantastic lenswoman, because she made me look like a pro … First, I had the honor of taking a lesson from Maria Souza, who runs her own paddle surfing school in…

They say when you spend too much time in Hawaii, you start to suffer from the effects of “Hawaiian time”. Meaning, nothing seems too pressing or important when there are more important things, like surfing or barbecuing, on the agenda. I will use this as my excuse for not writing a blog since returning from…

Last night, I made my first trip to Dodger stadium to watch game 3 of the NLCS. I immediately fell in love with the 46-year-old ballpark (now the third-oldest in MLB). It is intimate, friendly … and has palm trees. (My favorite form of foliage.) The fans were another story. I know playoff baseball can…

When I meet new people and tell them what I do for a living, most times I am asked this question within the first few minutes: “Have you always been into sports?” It’s usually women who ask the question, and most often it is women who are not big sports fans themselves. I think they…