A few skipped riding days, including a couple of crucial Saturday rides, trimmed the mileage this month down to a meager 700 miles. Worries about my living situation, finding new housing on Craigslist, and trying to get ready for a vacation to Idaho were all contributing factors to the missed days, but probably more of […]
This week was another four-day riding week. I had planned on six days and just over 250 miles. On Thursday, I spent too much time on the phone after work, arranging my upcoming trip to Idaho, to get my 38 miles by sundown. Today, I woke up late, tried to figure out how to meet […]
Yesterday, my coworker who likes to ride sometimes, thought it would behoove him to ride his bicycle the entire way to work—from his house about 10 miles north of mine. He invited me to meet him along the route and ride it with him. He doesn’t ride nearly as much as I do, so I […]
This week started out well, but after a hard ride on Wednesday on which I ran out of water with 5 miles left (and cramped hard), I bailed on Thursday and Saturday. A nice conversation with a beautiful woman for about 10 miles on Tuesday brought me in with a slower average speed, but I […]
After my contribution to Seth’s ride on Monday, I felt damn good. Good enough for five days in a row with daily average speeds well above 19 mph. In fact, three of the five days were commuting days—days in which I rode to work and rode home. In the past few weeks, I’ve been driving […]
I headed out for my Saturday ride today at 3:30 in the afternoon–the same time as I headed out last Saturday. Today’s route was planned for about 58 miles and covered the same roads as I ride almost every Saturday. The wind was light as I climbed up to Portola Valley. After discovering that the […]
In order to give back to the community and support an extremely important organization that helps lots of people, I have decided to sponsor Seth Dillingham in his goal to ride in the Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research. Lots of people wish him well, but I decided that it would be a […]
After today’s big ride, I took a 90 minute disco nap, got a bite to eat, and headed for San Francisco. Seeing Andy Caldwell listed on the flyer locked it down for me — I was headed to Mighty. I didn’t get to the club until about midnight, but my favorite Canadians, Patrick & Gigi, […]
Another short week, but this time I simply couldn’t put my ass on the bike on Monday or Tuesday. On Wednesday, I had to take my car into the mechanic, so I had no excuses at all for two days. On Friday, I needed a high speed ride, after two days of headwinds in the […]
Today, I needed 57.52 miles for my Saturday ride. I intended, of course, to head out about noon. Noon turned into 3:30 by the time I pushed away out of my driveway. I really have to work on that “getting out the door on time” thing. I headed up to Portola Valley again, by way […]
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