I have been sitting here trying to write about something - anything - besides the crappy weather. It’s impossible. Every start degrades quickly into some rant about Sal calling me a "hail magnet".
I have decided to give in and just get it off my chest.
I am enamored with the rain and cold in the winter […]
I did not TT today as planned. I left the snow and sleet and rain to the hardmen and I followed my gut, which was following my heart, which was following my joy.
I rode my new mountain bike in Forest Park with friends. Then I went into the darkroom to do some printing. It was […]
On Saturday I got back on the bike for real. I went out with a teammate to go long and slow. Long and steady. My training doesn’t usually call for LSD, so I was looking forward to ignoring the HR monitor and just riding.
I wanted to learn a new route, so I called on the […]
Remember the Gravitron?
It’s that dumb amusement park ride where you lean against the wall and the room spins so fast your sliding wall-pad slides up and you are lifted off your feet, pinned by the mighty G-Forces that the Carnie-in-Charge hoards over you.
It was kind of fun, right? But it also sort of made your […]
The sun came out. Portland stretched and yawned and shielded her eyes.
The bike called, so I came.
On Thursday Sal and I hit the road together for the first time in a long while. We took an old familiar route south to Oregon City, around Lake Oswego, back to Terwilliger and home. The last time we’d […]
Last week was a challenge.
It was one of those weeks where everything bad that can happen seems to be taking its turn. The furnace breaks and it goes on from there.
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I want to tell you about how yesterday my furnace broke and the house was 49 degrees when I woke up. I want to tell you how I had to wait all day long for the tech to show up during the window that the company gave me of "sometime today".
I’d like to share how […]
It happens to all of us at some point. An uninspired workout - a grueling, excruciating, inexplicably terrible workout. There’s no good reason for it - just no go-juice.
It’s awful.
This happened to me on Sunday morning. The longest 45 minute run of my life. Ten times longer than Friday’s 80 minute scorch-fest. Seriously. Bad.
As I […]
Sal comes home. He has been gone ten days.
Ten days.
His trips do not usually keep him for that length of time.
In his absence I become a strange creature. A bachelor of sorts, hobbling together meals that would never otherwise pass for meals, leaving dishes in the sink.
Today is the usual computer work with added welcome-home […]
We grow up and get old. We grow up and get busy. Teams are hard to put together, hard to organize, hard to keep up with .
It’s already enough of a battle to just roll out of bed and go do our morning run, our afternoon ride, our lunchtime walk. We learn to rely on […]
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