Entries from May 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Do You Get the Sunday Oregonian? Look for me!!

Well, many of you already know this, but I think it’s finally safe to go totally public…
If you get The Oregonian and crack this Sunday’s edition, you’ll find the newly launched "Outdoors" section.  Somewheres in there among all the super hott Oregon outdoorsey-ness you’ll find the opener for my new column, "The Everyday Cyclist"!!
That’s right.
A […]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Mountain Biking for Runners

Long stretch of muddy barely rideable singletrack.  Happy mountain bikers at the bottom.
Then me.  Running to join them.  Shouldering a mountain bike is fairly uncomfortable, but I can still get a good little clip going.
"I like the running parts." I tell my Corvallis based hosts.
"You are supposed to be riding!" 
"I am riding.  When do we […]

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Cycleseen: Shameless Self Promotion!!

What better venue for shameless self-promotion than a blog.
Consider this a save the date invitation. 
If you’re in the Portland area on May 29th, think about pedaling your way over to "Last Thursday", the big art walk that happens each month in NE Portland.  I’ll have a photograph hanging in the Guardino Gallery as […]

Monday, May 19th, 2008

The Comeback

I arrived at softball practice yesterday covered in blood.
My coach jumped out of his car: "Oh my god!  Did you get hit by a car!?"
"Huh?"
The truth was that I’d just ridden 20 miles to the field and had absolutely no idea that I was gushing blood from my left nostril.  I simply thought that the […]

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Man Down!

I could tell Sal wasn’t feeling well during our training ride on Tuesday.  He was lacking snap.  He was too quiet.  Even after a monster pull on Willamette, I knew something was up.
What followed was four days of 100-101 degree fevers.  He has not been this sick in all the time that I’ve known him.  […]

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

100 Miles to Freedom

2003 - Solvang, CA.
My first half-century.
The distance is a stretch for me.  I do not consider myself a cyclist - I am a person who rides bikes sometimes on the weekends.  I’m a runner and a softball player, but I am not a cyclist.
Never will be.
Rolling through California wineries with the other amblers, I take […]