We were a little late getting out to Horning’s Hideout for the race. By the time we got there I only had 40 minutes to register, ride the course, warm up and report to the start line for staging.
I’d opted to ride the Men’s Beginner’s race at 9:00am for a variety of reasons but [...]
Entries from October 2006
October 23, 2006
Horning’s Hideout
October 19, 2006
Coach Carter
I’m watching Coach Carter.
Yes. “Coach Carter” – the MTV movie about a “controversial basketball coach”. I am a complete sucker for sports dramas. Even very, very, very bad ones.
Basketball? The drama? The buzzer? The jumpshots?
Yes. I fucking love it all.
I was mediocre at basketball in high school. [...]
October 18, 2006
Dropped.
Sam dropped me last night basically as soon as the road turned uphill. That’s ok – that’s what I was expecting. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – if I have to get dropped to get stronger and faster then I’ll suffer the misery of dangling wildly off the back.
As [...]
October 17, 2006
Therapy. Cubed.
Last night I left work at 5:30pm and ran the Esplanade. I ran fast. As fast as I could.
And it felt good.
I haven’t run in a while and I have no idea why. I expected to be slow, bogged down, pathetic, in pain. But I cranked “Lose Yourself” and [...]
October 16, 2006
Any given Sunday
It was pissing rain by the time we arrived at the course on Sunday morning. I planned to race so I went out with Sam to ride the course, got around 3 times and then flatted in a really major way. Sam was on another part of the course by that point and [...]
October 10, 2006
Pick a Sport
Last night as I turned on my bicycle headlight to ride home from yoga my legs screamed up at me, “Pick a sport!”
Annoyed, I replied, “Yoga isn’t a sport. It’s an activity.” My legs were unimpressed. I was tired going home, with little in the tank.
All the way across the Hawthorne Bridge [...]
October 8, 2006
First Cross Race for Sammy
The house is cold and dark at 5:30 in the morning. Sam lets me sleep in a little while he makes the coffee and prepares his gear. I wake up at the smell and sound of the coffee brewing but I lay in our low bed with my arms wrapped around the fatter of our [...]
October 6, 2006
Life, settling.
When you get up at 5:30am to work on projects and the first thing that your computer tells you is: “There has been a fatal error in InDesign. The program is shutting down.” it probably means that you should go back to bed.
Instead I sigh, re-open the program, and check to see how much of [...]
October 3, 2006
Montage Mondays, Stumptown Tuesdays
Monday night at the Montage is becoming a bit of a habit. Wine bottles are half-price and the place isn’t nearly as crazy and loud as usual. Last night we went out with new “couple friends” and split crawfish beignets, oyster shooters, two bottles of wine, a myriad of seafood entrees (catfish! blackened marlin! ), [...]
October 2, 2006
Another Convert
Sam and I rolled our cross bikes out to Forest Park yesterday after watching the first races of the Cross Crusade series out at Aplenrose.
I was on fire. Inspired. Over the moon. Alpenrose had been crawling with cyclists, spectators, family, food and miles upon miles of beautiful, beautiful bikes.
We pedaled across Hawthorne Bridge, made our [...]
