As I mentioned in my previous post, I was in Spokane last weekend, and as we all know, staying with a relative or friend always poses challenges when it comes to diet (if you’re a picky eater like myself or have dietary restrictions). Of course, my grandmother had already gone out and bought f[...]
Archive for March, 2010
March 29th, 2010 - 8:32 am § in Cycling, Ride Reports
Spokane: getting to know you
It’s still amazing to me how you can grow up in a town and still really have no idea where anything is or have such a limited knowledge of the surrounding area. I brought my bike along with me again for the weekend, as I went into town for another wedding. Saturday the weather was [...][...]
Syncline; HC 100
Saturday afternoon, me and 2 friends drove out to Hood River for a quick ride around Syncline. This was actually the first time I’ve ridden the entire thing in one ride; John kept scaring us by mentioning a hellacious 2 hour climb; it turned out to be about a 40 minute climb, and while pretty[...]
March 20th, 2010 - 12:22 pm § in Running
From the vault
January 9th, 2006 I heard the crowd just when I saw the 0.2 mile marker. My quads burned with every step, my left knee felt like it had been hit with a hammer, my hips seemed to have aged 50 years within the last 26 miles–despite all this, my excitement started to grow. I start to [...][...]
March 10th, 2010 - 11:17 am § in Cycling
Finally getting there; Single life
I remember the days when I would update this blog every day, sometimes twice a day. Those were the days when I was training heavily, putting in 10 or more workouts a week, counting the hours I put in on the bike, keeping track of my calories and my plan and staring at the OBRA [...][...]
March 7th, 2010 - 10:26 pm § in MTB, Race Reports
Race Report: Echo Red to Red
Me and two teammates drove to Echo, Oregon on Friday in the early evening, stopping briefly in Hood River to enjoy some Double Mountain love. We arrived in Echo around 9pm with some hand scrawled directions that said things like “take a left after the air strip and the windmill, a right just a[...]
March 1st, 2010 - 2:08 pm § in Creative
Whatever happened to…
… that whole novel thing? A few weeks ago I reread some of my notes and started thinking about it again. And then California. And then moving. Excuse excuse whine whine. The truth of the matter is that something this huge has to be at the forefront of my mind all the time, otherwise I forget [[...]
