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 …
Last week, leading up to the election, I got completely fed up with social media. I got fed up with people screaming at each other between their screens. I got tired of reading hateful tweets about both candidates. I couldn’t listen to one more person shout something negative from their Twitter handle. It’s exhausting. Maybe …
Continue reading "Non-Election Content: Fresh bread, New books + A sunset ride"
First of all… YOU’RE LOOKING AT A VOTER. Beanie season! On Thursday evening last week, I walked (in freezing rain that wasn’t in the forecast, might I add) three miles to and from the ballot drop box at The Louisville Police Department. I did my research on all the candidates before filling in those little …
Continue reading "Lately: Riding Before the snow, A COLD run + My First PT appointment"
This weekend was full of surprises. Some good, like this bright yellow rain jacket I got on Sunday because I still haven’t figured out my personal style and I just couldn’t stop looking at it. But also some bad, like the fires that are raging in the mountains near Boulder. There are several that are …
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I do a lot of my best and deepest thinking while I’m riding or running. Even if I’m listening to music or a podcast, my brain can somehow tune out the voices and let me explore my thoughts, feelings, fears, dreams. Sunrise runs. What's better? Sometimes, in between a thought, a feeling, a fear, a …
I was supposed to race on Saturday. Last week I sort of panicked and registered for a cyclocross race in Broomfield after seeing some photos from last year’s race at Valmont; that day was so fun, the weather was perfect, my parents were there cheering, and I was really missing the feeling of killing myself …
Continue reading "A Very Fall Saturday Ride: Boulder, Nederland + beyond"
