infinitely sustainable pace

Warm out there. Sixty-one degrees. No time to ride during the day and no desire to hang out inside while the weather is so warm. For some reason I’m a bit freaked out about riding alone at night, so it took a bit of a personal push but I got out there. And it was [...]

Thanksgiving sucked. Not only did I oversleep and miss the annual thanksgiving bike ride organized by the local club, the entire day was far more sad and depressing than I imagined it would be this year. Even surrounded by my family, cousins, grandmas, etc, I just couldn’t get into the spirit of it. And if [...]

Having found myself with some leftover vacation days, I opted to take all of Thanksgiving week off. K and I headed down to PA on Tuesday night, after what was probably the worst parent-teacher conference in the history of parent-teacher conferences. I mean really, when the Principal shows up at your conference it’s never a good [...]

Did you know that Nashville is on central time? I had no idea. Seems so east coast. And Chattanooga? EST. The time zone line goes right between them. This was a fast rocknroll weekend bike trip to the land of country music and churches (as an aside, according to wikipedia, 82% of Tennesseeans identify themselves as Christian, [...]

This was my lucky week. Not really. I’ve spent the past two days at home dealing with a terrible allergic reaction to some Aveda lotion. Nasty nasty. Watch out for that brand, though their branding has the ‘natural and pure’ thing going on, a little bit of time on google showed me that I wasn’t [...]

Changing directions today, talking about a book. Years ago when I was preparing to leave New Zealand, my friend Brenda handed me this book, Danziger’s Travels by Nick Danziger,  to read on the long plane ride back to the states. I was captivated by his story of traversing the silk route in the early ’80s. [...]

If we’re friends on Facebook you might have seen this one already. Such a beautiful sunset bears repeating: Feeling a bit revived after a weekend of taking it easy and looking at outside temps of 62 degrees, I opted for a nice long lunch ride. The only issue was that rifle season started this weekend [...]

Well, it was no trip to beautiful Tahoe like last November, but somehow I survived. 7 long days and 7 long nights in a conference center in the Hill Country of Texas. Lots of work, but also lots of friends from over the years. After getting home Friday evening, I spent the weekend  decompressing, recharging, catching [...]

On it.

Well, after nearly two months of being a homebody it’s back on the road for a bit. I know these past couple of months have been pretty scintillating – what with the neverending groin bruise saga and everything. In case you were wondering, the groin trauma is still there. The lump is down to the [...]