I went back into an office yesterday! Before COVID-19 happened, the plan was to transition into a new office in April. A big, beautiful building was slowly being outfitted with standing desks, wall murals, hundreds of TVs and monitors, a full-service kitchen, teched-out conference rooms, and a garage door that opened to the outside, a …
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It feels like there’s no *right* time to start hanging out with people again because it’s become so routine to not…but after two months of pedaling alone, I was starting to go completely nuts without company. Part of the reason I ride is to be social! To catch up with friends, meet new people, see …
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On my way home from a beautiful trail run yesterday morning, I received some very sad news: Steamboat Gravel is cancelled for 2020. After a quick cool down, I climbed into my car and checked my texts and emails before heading home from the trailhead. My heart sank a little when I opened up a …
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When quarantine began more than a month ago, I was devastated and scared as the unknowns piled up one after the other. A week went by and I began to feel suffocated by my own walls, the pictures that hang on them, the books on my shelves. Three weeks later the loneliness really took hold …
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Since Dirty Kanza was postponed to September, I've been feeling much less pressure to go on big, stupid rides every weekend until race day. In the next couple months I'll really have to dial things up, but right now we are still relatively far out, so I have been enjoying less structure and more go-by-feel …
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I hate the devastation and the suffering. I don’t like the layoffs. I don’t like that huge races like the Boston marathon, the Tour de France, and the Olympics are either cancelled or postponed. I don’t like that I can’t see my family. I wish I could hug my mom. I wish I could hug …
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This is when we all should be doing big rides together! The other weekend when I ran into my friend (the one who so graciously sent me home with delicious pastries and ciabatta bread), she said this while we were talking about spring riding. And she’s right. April, May, June – these are the best …
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On my way out of town for a sunny Sunday ride this past weekend, a woman on a bike approaching me quickly pulled her buff up over her face, swerved toward me on the two-way bike path and yelled, “PUT ON A MASK!” Then she kept on riding down the hill toward other cyclists and …
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Well, it’s Friday and I still have a job. That’s more than I can say for a lot of my friends. Amidst layoffs that are happening worldwide, industry-wide, state-wide, I was spared for now, and I feel beyond grateful and frankly very fucking lucky. ^^^ This happened Wednesday night and continued all day Thursday. Sigh. …
Monday, March 16th was our first day of working from home. During a company-wide virtual call hosted by our company's CEO, we were told we'd be remote for two weeks and then assess the situation. ^^^ Hanging on by a thread, honestly. Well, the situation was assessed and after the first week, as things escalated, …
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