I like to get these things out before the new year, but I was holding out hope that I’d have more information on the biggest thing I did this year. Status of my bone marrow recipient was due, but didn’t arrive. I’m not waiting any longer. MUST POST! I hope she’s well. That’d be amazing. Life Rebecca’s father passed away “Saved” a Life Achieved…
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 promising to visit an old college friend in Bangkok,…
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 still many rows back. The temperature was a brisk…
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 I realized was that I only had five weeks.…
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 use the Bicycleattorney.com team van (team is technically Prestovelo, but nobody…
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 riding from their home in Vancouver (Canada) to Portland,…