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 …
Continue reading "A Misty Morning in the Mountains: Logan Mill + Chapman"
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 …
Continue reading "Quarantine Week 5: Weekend Riding, Friend Flybys, and my real fears"
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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“It’s a wild time. Might as well stay alive through it.” -Lauren Fleshman Earlier this week, as I was scrolling Instagram, I noticed Lauren Fleshman go live with Sarah Lesko—both of whom are associated with Oiselle. I’m not a huge fan of Instagram Live, but I was between work projects and just needed to listen …
After last week’s daily quarantine posts, it didn’t feel right to keep writing about my days that are mostly very boring. Because being bored these days is a privilege. I am not a healthcare worker putting in endless shifts caring for others. I am not a cashier at a grocery store coming into contact with …
Continue reading "Training In A Pandemic: Highest Mileage In Awhile"
My last quarantine update for the week, I promise. When I went to bed last night, there were over 244,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus worldwide. When I logged in to work this morning I checked again: 246,444. (I’m using this interactive map here.) In under twelve hours, the world added over 2,000 cases, and that …
