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 [...]
Category Archives: Cycling
So, I think I mentioned I started taking pix of roadkill, right? I sometimes consider the possibility that I could end up like them. And then I see a story like this one: A woman strikes a cyclist, while intoxicated and then is dumb enough to laugh about it on a monitored [...]
Tom Courtney Returns
16-Jan-08Back on rollers in the basement for winter boredom. Last night at least. Today, I am finally coming down with the sick that the boy and mrs. h had for the past, I don’t know, 6 weeks.
So Anyway, revisiting ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ with Tom Courtenay. Watched the [...]
No. No. A Thousand Times No!
10-Jan-08If you show up to a ride with one of these things, you may not get punched, but don’t come looking to me when you are out of water and the next rest stop is 18 miles away.
sayin.
NYE.
31-Dec-07I’m thinking that New Year’s Resolutions don’t count if you don’t think them up in the old year so…in no particular order:
Be an awesome dad: always have at least one project to be doing with the Woog. We start baby swim classes next weekend.
Suprise my wife. In good ways.
Have at least one home improvement project [...]
On the roll again.
31-Dec-07Back on the rollers yesterday. Starting off very slow with very short work out time. I’ve been having some problems that have kept me from training.
You may or may not know, being on the rollers can be boring. I have no TV down in the basement currently, so I am stuck with [...]
Our venture in Iraq was a literary failure, by which I mean a failure of imagination. A culture better at imagining richly, three dimensionally, would have had a greater respect for war than we did, more awareness of the law of unintended consequences, more familiarity with the world’s tendency to throw aggressive energy back [...]
Starlings in the Slipstream
14-Oct-07I love starlings. At first glance, they are maybe slightly less ubiquitous a bird then the pigeon. But the close observer is rewarded with much: Their feathers molt from a slick black with highlights of purple and green to brown with white spots. And their flocking behavior…well click [...]
Bobbit
16-Aug-07Saw a giant dildo on Umbria street this morning. Laying by the side of the bike path. discarded. All I could think was John Wayne Bobbit. I mean clearly it was not a man’s severed penis tossed from the window of a moving car. But thats the first thing that [...]
Vacation ends Tomorrow.
14-Aug-07I took the last 2 weeks off the bike. I had to. I’ve been riding / training pretty much non stop since November last year. My initial goal for this year was: finish a race. that morphed into finish a race in the pack. which morphed into finish in [...]