Did Memorial Hall Crit this weekend. This was the first pack bicycle race I ever took a stab at two years ago.
That time I got dropped about 7 laps in, and was pulled from the course not long after. So things could only get better this go round.
They did. Although, not tremendously. [...]
Category Archives: Cycling
Memorial Hall Crit, Revisited
05-May-08via How to Avoid the Bummer Life
Let’s say you have to get to a bike race at 6am. This bike race is about a mile off the Valley Forge bike path. You leave your house at 4:45. You get to the bike path 40-50 minutes before dawn.
Have a good bike lamp. Unless you want to ride in total darkness [...]
IM LA8TE
18-Apr-08I caught a glimpse of her, then her license plate, ‘IM LA8TE’. As I pedaled up behind her to the next light, I considered what I would say if her driver side window was down.
‘Wow. You’re LA8TE. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna keep it? Does the baby [...]
Monday night. I’m standing in the lobby of my YMCA, pulling my booties on, checking my bike, turning on my garmin. One of the desk girls comes out and asks me where I ride to.
Me: “Upper Darby.”
Her: “Is that far?”
Me:”Its only 20 miles”.
I felt her eyes on me, so I looked up. Her jaw is [...]
Note to Self: Take Decongestant
27-Mar-08I admit it: I snot rocket on rides. A lot.
As a practice, It leads to dried up snot fluid stains in strange places: back of my jacket. the back of my riding sweater. my cycling bag. The index fingers of both of my winter gloves. I’ve considered, more than once, taking claritin before rides to [...]
Easter in Bucks County.
23-Mar-087:30 AM. Up and dressed. Extra socks. Cold Cold Cold.The plan is simple. Do 50 miles or 3 hours of riding, whichever comes first. Attempts to sell wife on coming pick me up someplace remote on the SCU Nockamixon Century route didn’t work out. Something about the benefit [...]
There Will Be DiaBeetus
20-Mar-08
Another reason I love riding for Human Zoom/Pabst Blue Ribbon. Our shop manager/bike mechanic sent me this earlier this week:
PEEP OFF IS ON!!!
DAWSON ST PUB
MARCH 24TH(DAY AFTER EASTER)
STARTS ABOUT 8:30
WE NEED COMPEEPADORS!
STRAIGHT PEEP EATING NO FUNNY STUFF.
$20 TO ENTER
20 MIN TO EAT 15 MIN TO HOLD EM DOWN
8 or 9 days in review.
17-Feb-08A Week ago Friday.
Made Mrs. H dinner. Potato Gnocchi. Green salad with apples, peppers, onions and some other veggies.
A Week ago Saturday. Early Morning.
Mrs. H very sick. Very sick. Puking. Did I mention that I didn’t wash the greens in the salad? We figured I food poisoned [...]
So I have been on the bike alot less then I would like since August, when I started having alot of pain on my left side. Including not riding for almost all of October, November, and most of December of last year. You could say I let myself go. Like heaviest I [...]