CHAPTER ONE She opened her eyes, then immediately closed them again, hoping sleep would take her again. But it was too late, she could hear John in the kitchen, making coffee and pouring cereal into a ceramic bowl. The clank of the spoon. The rustling of the newspaper. The smell of freshly brewed co[...]
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December 10th, 2009 - 5:06 pm § in Uncategorized
Memoriiiies
I have been trying to find a short story I wrote. So I started searching. And I found about a million notebooks full of journal entries, drawings, and stories, dating back to about 1997. Unfortunately I think the story I want is lost in cyberspace, on a disc somewhere…out there…likely ne[...]
October 8th, 2009 - 11:08 pm § in Uncategorized
New Site!
OK, I FINALLY moved runbikeswim to my new domain, kristinrides.com. Because 1) I don’t do tri’s anymore and 2) I want this to evolve to be about more than just training. So expect some hiccups, hopefully I can get this ironed out quickly. And yes, I totally downloaded some generic theme [...]
September 28th, 2009 - 10:15 am § in Uncategorized
2009-2010
October – December: Cyclocross December – March: Snowboarding December – March: base building & weight lifting December – March: Lose 20lbs January – February: Sink into horrible depression February-March: Spend all my money on another Moab/Colorado Mountain biking [...]
September 13th, 2009 - 10:08 pm § in Uncategorized
There’s No Crying on the Trail
MTB Rule Number One: There’s no crying on the trail. This is a rule I have broken many, many times. Crying from crashing, crying from frustration, crying from panic attacks, crying from exhaustion. I read over my previous post about how I’m so damn pathetic because wa! there’s not [...]
September 13th, 2009 - 10:29 am § in Uncategorized
Mega-Stuck
I miss Mountain Bike Oregon. Or what I should say is that I miss epic mountain bike rides, which I just have not had time to do. I didn’t write anything about MBO, which is a shame, because epic it was. So much so that I just couldn’t bring myself to write about it. I [...][...]
August 31st, 2009 - 3:54 pm § in Uncategorized
How I failed algebra 3 times and became a programmer
In middle school I was set up in the smart person track: advanced level everything. For math, 7th grade was pre-algebra, 8th grade was algebra, and then onto high school. I aced all my other courses. I seem to remember an average grade in pre-algebra, and then 8th grade came along. I was used to get[...]
August 17th, 2009 - 7:49 am § in Uncategorized
Alpine Century; Sunday Parkways; new 24hour fitness
There were 3 century rides last weekend; 2 in or around Portland, 1 not very close to Portland at all. And of course, I was looking for a bit of adventure, so Sierra and I drove down to Monroe, Oregon (South of Salem) for the Alpine Century. We arrived a bit later then we hoped, and [...][...]
August 13th, 2009 - 4:34 pm § in Uncategorized
Work-Life unbalance
Well, my CX training was going along quite nicely, I was ready for the 5×5 hell to begin when… *cough*cough*cough* Oh damn. Yep, that’s a cough. A nasty one. But I still rode 3 hours on Saturday. Annnnnd 3 hours on Sunday. I took a break on Monday, the hack was worse. I rode into wo[...]
July 23rd, 2009 - 8:52 am § in Uncategorized
The Improvement Project
Quick updates: I finally got out an did the team road ride last Saturday. Ouch. ouch ouch ouch. The entire ride was 55 miles, avg pace 19 (I got dropped in a big way). First 30 miles we averaged 22mph–in reality at pace we were going about 26-28mph. Talk about a “welcome back” ride[...]
