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Archive for October, 2007
October 29th, 2007 - 2:35 pm § in Cyclocross, Race Reports
Non-Race Report: Halloween Cross Crusade
Well, I went out to Astoria on Saturday, it was a beautifully sunny day. We showed up at pier 39, where a bunch of us were staying the most swanky hotel I’ve ever stayed in (“hotel”–it was really only 1 set of rooms, check it out here: click on “fisherman’s suite&[...]
October 25th, 2007 - 9:49 am § in Uncategorized
Memorial for Brett
[ October 29, 2007; 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] First, on behalf of my colleagues at the Bike Gallery, my Bike Gallery team mates and all of Brett's close friends, I like to thank all of you in the OBRA community for the outpouring of sympathy, following the tragic loss of our friend, co-worker, team mate[...]
October 25th, 2007 - 8:55 am § in Workouts
Updates
I finally bought another heart rate monitor. It’s the Timex Ironman 30 lap one, so it can to splits and whatnot. Not entirely sure how to use it yet, i think I’m actually going to try and figure it out this time though. I actually managed to use the feature that tells me my calories [...[...]
October 24th, 2007 - 6:58 am § in Deep Thoughts, MTB
Dealing with loss
After I found out about Brett yesterday (right when i sat down at my desk at work…) I went home in tears, and cried for a long time. Thankfully my boyfriend stayed home with me; we went out to lunch together, where I had some trouble ordering or just thinking straight in general. I was [...][...]
October 23rd, 2007 - 10:48 am § in Cycling
In Memory of Brett Jarolimek
The person who got me into this whole wide world of cycling was killed yesterday, struck by a garbage truck while riding in the bike lane of Interstate. I met Brett when I worked at Art Media, he was the first bike racer I had ever met. I rode my trek to work every day, [...][...]
October 21st, 2007 - 6:14 pm § in Cyclocross, Race Reports
Race Report – Cross Crusade – Rainier HS
It was pretty windy, chilly, although warm when the sun was out. It looked like a fun course, wide open, muddy, 1 major sustained climb. I looked forward to having a good time, but not really trying to “race”. I started out really strong, I’ve gotten really good at shooting out be[...]
October 20th, 2007 - 4:17 pm § in Cyclocross
It’s officially the rainy season
Today I felt hopefully depressed for no particular reason. That means it’s now winter. The sun just poked it way through the clouds for the last few minutes, and I feel great all of a sudden, although immeasurably frustrated that I didn’t go mountain biking today as planned (due to the t[...]
