With me being laid off the day before Rebecca was planning to announce a career change, it was clearly a a chance for a big vacation. Before I landed my new position we had bought flights in to Hanoi and out of Bangkok 23 days later. It was going to happen. Since college, I’d been
We did it. 8:55:21. 32 minutes faster than last year. The big buckle is in my possession. For scale, stack two dollar bills. It’s awesome. The start I arrived to the start around 5:45AM. I was in the green corral (same as last year) and pushed forward a touch more than last time, but was
Upon returning from a couple of weeks in the great outdoors (I did not sleep inside for an entire weekend for like six weeks straight or something nutty like that), I sat down to work out a proper training plan. A proper training plan can span as many as six months, but the first thing
The Race Remember that time I nearly showed up in Tahoe for a race I didn’t sign up for? That just happened. Except luckily the race doesn’t sell out and I was able to register the night before. Had the race sold out, this would have been a double whammy as I was fortunate enough to
A few years back, I found and signed up for a site called Warmshowers. It’s basically couch-surfing for cyclists. I don’t know how long I’ve been registered as “available for guests,” (you can toggle this on and off) but two weeks ago I got my first contact from Zach. He and his buddy, Max, were
I’m 6’2. My body likes to be right around 172lbs. At my heaviest, I was in the mid-180s. I was super soft, but that was like a decade ago and it’s okay. For two years now, I’ve set a goal of getting to 162 before Leadville. The number was somewhat arbitrary, but it turns out