Month: April 2013
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I’m Impress’d: A review of the Impress Coffee Brewer
Many moons ago, I Kickstarted a project for a coffee brewer. Folks who know me well know that I’m a sucker for brew methods. I’m not a stickler for all the rules like some of the ubergeeks, but I do like to try everything (reviews of some of my other methods coming soon… I’ve been working on that bit of writing slowly). So I backed,…
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Bike Race: All American Road Race
Woke at 5AM, packed it all up, hit Starbucks for their 5:30 opening, quick trip to the office for my heart-rate monitor (waste of time… I looked down at one point and saw it reading 230+), and up to Poolesville, MD, for my 2nd road race, the All American Road Race. It would be two laps of an eight-mile loop. That’s right, I got up…
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Bike Race: Jefferson Cup
With a couple of years of road cycling under my belt and some modern equipment under my rear, I felt it was time to try out the whole road racing thing. I’ve always been intrigued by the sport, but it’s an intimidating one that’s not particularly welcoming to newcomers (information is difficult to find, communication is lacking, there are a lot of bad “heads”…