infinitely sustainable pace

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 [...]

I went to Toronto to meet with my Canadian colleagues. It snowed. I had a lot of meetings and ate some good Indian food. Then I went home. It wasn’t easy to get there from here. Crappy weather made for some crappy travel. Canceled flights, delays, runway sitting, more delays. It brought me back to [...]

This summer I spent a lot of time riding with my friend Aaron. On our rides in Waitsfield and Waterbury we talked about all kinds of stuff. He was going through a bunch of personal stuff and change in living situation, in his case getting back to his own place that he was building. He [...]

Was yesterday the final ride in shorts for 2011? How many times have I thought that the season is ending, that this is the last of it? I’ve made the ‘final’ mint julep of 2011 at least 7 times already, but the mint is still growing. And so is my lawn. Now it’s December. Mother [...]

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 [...]