If you don’t know the significance of polka dots in cycling, LMGTFY. Today, RJ, Jray, and I set out on a ride through Skyline Drive. It’s a 62-miler with 5600ft of elevation. Some good “hills.” It’s not really a race, but given the elevation it’s tough to not put in a pretty hard effort even with a huge number of teeth on your rear…
After at least a ten year hiatus, I have returned to Wednesdays at Wakefield and I believe I’ve redeemed myself. The last time I ran this race was back in college, during the summer when I was working at the bike shop. I was riding a little bit (so little that I’d call it “not riding” nowadays), knew of the race, had these new…
Went into this race [again] planning to take it easy, and I think I did a better job than the past two. It was a hot 4th of July this year, and the canal, as always, was humid as hell and a little bit muddy. Nothing to really note on the race itself. It’s a fun one where older folks start upto 21 minutes…
Coded in a secret word validation. Apparently I know PHP better than I thought! If the spammers ever figure it out, it’ll take me ~1 minute to change to another. Yay! Happy commenting!
Have a new spammer in the house. I’ll think of something in the next few days.
The running joke used to be that I only rode my mountain bike once a year and that was in a race. Sadly, it was always pretty close to the truth. Once out of college, my mountain biking went from a hobby to… well, just another bike to move with me as I changed homes. I had perfectly valid reasons for this; I had…