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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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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Good morning and happy (summer) Friday! I get to close my laptop and start my weekend at 1 p.m. today and I couldn’t be happier about it. Like last week, I might check out a new trail this afternoon, but it all depends on what the weather does; I’m looking out my window at gray …
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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 …
Continue reading "Quarantine Week 7: We’re running out of things to say + missing travel"
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 …
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