infinitely sustainable pace

Perhaps you had an eventful memorial day weekend…mine, quiet and kinda weird. That’s okay. Things are different, this is a transitional year. And perhaps I got out that which I really needed — some downtime. Saturday I needed to spend some time conferring with M2 about the foot issue, and that was going to suck [...]

As Dicky pointed out, my shit is still not fixed. Bad Idea Racing spent almost an hour with me on the phone outlining 16 different ways in which I might fix my foot problem. Unfortunately, none of which included getting the ultra-thin socks he had been sporting on his blog that day that was my [...]

One last thing to register for this season…it was all laid out neatly in front of me. And I totally effed it up. Registration for the VT50 opened at 7, and closed sometime before 8. This is what I know, based on me attempting to register at 8. Did I have a good excuse? Nope. [...]

Heavy pollen covering everything in the woods right now. Trails, bridges, rocks – it’s all greenish/yellow. Bike tracks look purple/red next to the pollen covered surface. Tires resemble tennis balls. The photos don’t do it justice. After all the rain the black flies and mosquitos are out in force. New faces on tonight’s ride, glad they [...]

Sunday seemed like it would be tricky to get a good ride in, the trails were smooshy and my schedule was potentially challenging. So it worked out that heading south to Rutland and Pine Hill Park was my great big idea. Somehow I convinced George to go along for the ride, he brought Seamus and [...]

Woke up Saturday morning to a big smash of thunder, a lot of lightning, and more pounding rain. Too early for the rapture, must be just another day in Vermont. I had a big day of riding planned, but with days and days of heavy, pounding rain — trails were out of the question. Time [...]

Don’t want to jinx anything, but I think I’m finally off the bad luck track. There were a couple of big things going on at work today, and they went well. At the end of the day, after so many meetings, I found an hour of sunshine to sprint out for a quick road ride. It [...]

Literally. Figuratively. It’s all blurring together. The rain started on Saturday and has more or less continued ever since. Sodden trails forced the Tuesday Night Ladies Ride to dirt roads, which apparently didn’t interest anyone since it was just Meghan and I. Too lazy to change out the trainer tire from the geared cross bike, I rode [...]

Another good day for listening to the new J Mascis album. You might not be a fan, but I love how he manages to even make accoustic guitar sound so rough and fuzzy. We’ve had a long relationship, since way back when Chuck at Play it Again Sam’s record store made me purchase *You’re Living All Over Me* [...]

Resort town – you’re back in my good graces for the moment. All of those things that I’ve been complaining about all winter: the traffic, the tourists, the remoteness, the expense, the second-home owners… forgotten for the moment. Friday was the proverbial icing on the cake of a week in which living here was a [...]