Is it just me or did yesterday feel like just another Friday except more stores were closed and maybe you didn’t have to work? The only tangible cue for me that signaled our passage into a new year was finishing one planner and cracking open a new one. That’s one of my favorite things about …
Continue reading "1/1/2021: Everything I did on the First Day of the year + 3 goals"
Happy new year! Good morning! I’ve been awake sine 3:42 a.m. And now it’s 5:21 a.m. and I’m three cups of coffee deep. Is it because I crossed two time zones in the last two days and my body is like wtf are you doing to me? Is it because I fell asleep last night …
Continue reading "Recipes Worth Making !! + lots of eats from the past month"
I’m back in Colorado, and it feels so good! Especially because tomorrow I don’t have to get in a car if I don’t want to. Hooray! It was a long, long four full days of sitting on my butt watching the little blue dot on Google Maps crawl west ever so slowly down endless digital …
Coming to you live from Wichita, Kansas in maybe the most ‘80s hotel room I’ve ever seen in my life. Like the kind of room that just looks…faded. The curtains, the pictures, the carpet. Tired, just like all the people it’s hosted over the years. The flat screen TV looks to be the only thing …
Continue reading "Extras: Some of My Favorite Things from my Holiday Month in Florida"
5:44 a.m. After this cup (several cups) of coffee and after my morning run around the neighborhood (I’m running again!) and after my dad takes my car to the Honda dealer to get checked out because he’s neurotic, I’m making the long and painful drive back to Colorado. And I’m feeling emotional about it. But …
Continue reading "One Month at my parents’ house + A Very Merry Christmas"
Tomorrow is the weekend and I still haven’t finished up this post about my fun rides last weekend because my days are mornings are spent running or riding, my days are filled with work and meetings, and every evening I cook dinner for my family. As my mom would say, “You’re busier than a one-armed …
Continue reading "Weekend Riding in Tampa: Waffles in Safety Harbor + Fog in San Antonio"
After getting pushed around during a particularly windy ride earlier last week, on a route I’d done several times in a row, I had a real fit about biking down here. About the same-ness of it all. About the lack of bike lanes and the overpopulation of Orlando, about whatever I could complain about. The …
Continue reading "If There’s Gravel, I Will Find It: A Morning Route"
One of the only upsides of driving instead of flying to Florida for the holidays is that I could bring my bike! Normally when I visit my family I fly and I don’t bring my bike because a) I don’t have a bike bag to fly with anyway, and b) I’m not usually visiting long …
Continue reading "A Very Flat Florida Ride: Lake Nona + St. Cloud"
Seven states. Three days. Twenty-nine hours. Fifty podcast episodes. One thousand eight hundred fifty-two miles. How much do I loathe driving halfway across the United States? Let us count the ways. While I love Colorado, I am very much looking forward to not seeing snow for a month. State after state and mile after cruise …
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The thing about running injuries is that they feel like they’re never going to end. Like you’ll never see the other side of the thing; that every day you wake up and the pain is there, it feels permanent. That the physical and emotional suffering is forever. When I’m injured, sometimes I completely forget what …
