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A quick trip to PA to have more Christmas with my parents. My parents swear they’ve scaled back their Christmas efforts, but their houses were still packed with cookies and candy and crap. I resisted as best as I could and planned to get a couple of good singlespeed rides while I had access to [...]

Hope you had a very happy merry whatever you celebrate, or don’t celebrate. Mine was not so bad. Filled with friends and family and food and drink. Woke up to some fresh snow on Christmas Eve followed by gorgeous sunshine. The boy, the dog and I went up to Waterworks and hiked around. It was [...]

Spotted in a bathroom in Austin, Texas last March.

2011 is finally wrapping up, time for the requisite retrospective and look forward. This was a strange year, a lot of change and uncertaintly but with that came much opportunity. Just a few of my top Moment/Things/Experiences of 2011: Riding the Plains of Abraham at Mount St. Helens on an absolutely glorious late summer day Post-race [...]

Yup yup. Here it is. Our official 2011 Holiday Video Christmas Card. Stop peering wistfully into your mailbox, go ahead and turn up the volume and watch your card. It won’t be the worst way you spend 40 seconds this holiday season. Sorry if it autoplays and is really loud and scares your cube mate. [...]

Finally acquired a Christmas tree, but only barely. The lot was empty, just 3 or 4 trees left and most of them were giant so I feel pretty lucky that we were able to snag one. All the money from the trees at this lot goes to the Food Shelf, so I wanted to get [...]

A couple of days ago they announced the date for SSWC2012. September 29 in Spioenkop/Winterton Kwa-Zulu Natal province, South Africa. Ever since, it’s all I’ve been thinking about. I’ve always wanted to go to Africa and the September date means that it doesn’t conflict with my work committments. The guys that are running it are really [...]

No, not a real new bike. New spin bikes at the gym. Despite having a super fancy trainer at home and a nice, comfortable road bike in that trainer in a dedicated space in my basement, I’m making myself visit the gym some nights. If I go to the gym I can pretend that I’ve [...]

Froze my toes off this weekend to get an outside ride. The fisti has a rear flat and I haven’t yet gotten it together to figure out if I have the right tools at home to change it. So I rode my geared cross bike, which made me feel bad as I was called out [...]

This is what trainer time looks like chez moi. The boy sets up some sort of crazy battle station out of cardboard blocks and keeps me company by imagining epic sieges. Invariably, everything gets destroyed in a massive pretend firefight and blocks and star wars guys all go flying around the basement. The trainer is not [...]