• Dear Mom

    It has been a year now without you. I miss you a lot. I still think about you a dozen times a day. I still expect to receive a call from you at any moment. You were pretty much the only person who ever called. I used to share my life here and I haven’t

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  • Being a mature athlete

    After being an endurance athlete most of my life, today I realized that I am at last a mature one. This morning when standing up after cleaning the cats’ litter, I did something funky with my knee. It felt as if my ligaments weren’t properly aligned as I brought them to a straight position and

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  • How to get free airplane Internet

    This has been confirmed on a Gogo-equipped flight on Alaska Air using iOS devices. I would assume it to also work on Android, but I check mine in my luggage because it’s a pile of dung. Important note is that you need to not have the Gogo app installed. Your browser will detect it and

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  • 2014 Year in Review

    This year was easily the worst of my life. Numerous people passed away, lots of health issues for others, and every time there was a possibility of something going wrong, it would. Farewell, 2014. GTFO. Goals Umm. It seems I didn’t set any. I said I would, but that was in the midst of home

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  • Let the offseason begin

    Technically, it began about three weeks ago with my final cyclocross race, but I’m only now getting around to writing about it. My base training for the year, as usual, was abbreviated. We were new to the area, I dragged my feet on getting the proper winter gear (I had only just gotten a nice

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  • Go ahead, talk about death

    It’s going to happen. To me, to you, and to everyone you encounter today. In fact, it accounts for half of the experiences that are shared by the entirety of the world’s population (the other is birth). So why don’t we talk about it? For the same reason we don’t tend to talk about race,

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