August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
1 post
It’s been a weird road season.
I was off to a certainly less-than-auspicious start. Pro/1/2 pack fill, but I was making what felt like huge steps in unlearning Cat 3 tactics & replacing them with those I had been gleaning from my race-savvy new teammates. The support & encouragement that I felt from these guys was incredible; I never once felt as if I didn’t belong. Killington...
November 2010
1 post
The nightmare is over, or just beginning.
So I’ve been hiding bursts of week-long chronic pain for the past fifteen years. Save for those with whom I’ve been closest, sharing love or four walls or both, I’ve kept it to myself. I knew it to be irrational that I never got this taken care of, but: My major phobia is - as self-sabotaging as it sounds - the dentist. Let alone the idea of oral surgery.
It would come in hot,...
August 2010
1 post
Catch up
Hey, just like that & it’s almost CX season again! These past few months have seen some exciting developments in life, and I - being a habitual list-maker - will convey these developments as bulleted points!
-I joined Cambridge Bicycle / Igleheart Frames, initially only for their road team, but now have full-on committed to sticking with them for CX. While my heart is a little heavy and...
March 2010
1 post
Ah, hell.
So, big ideas crash & burn. That’s their very nature; hopes dashed, dreams deflated, everything and everything else comes tumbling down in a fiery fury. I’m being a bit hyperbolic here.. I’m not speaking of some catastrophic defeat; no spirutual death here. I’m embellishing the mundane. Cutting the fat, I could simply say: Oops, I haven’t been writing...
February 2010
1 post
So as the rest of the East Coast is experiencing some pretty intense cold, I’m still sweating it out in a short-sleeve skinsuit; One life, embrocation-free. I don’t mean to rub it in, but holy hell, this is what I’ve got to do every. Single. Year.
Picking up where I left off: The race in West Palm Beach. It was a four-or-so hour and boring-ass drive from Tampa. I think every...
January 2010
2 posts
Starting backwards, moving forwards. So, I’m in Tampa, FL right now. I’m in the middle of a month-or-so long stay whose purpose is several-fold: Mostly, to extend my cyclocross season through January, knowing how sorely missed it will be in the months between now & August. Secondarily, to avoid snow and hang out with buddies. I’m sure somewhere in there are also my aversion...
Big ideas: This blog is one of them. I’ve not had much success in the past with keeping anything like this current or relevant, engaging or interesting, or anything but masturbatory & self-indulgent. I hope that this doesn’t fall victim to the same fate that the burned-out carcasses of other blogs I’ve done have; sunken shipwrecked vestiges of half-cooked half-thoughts left...