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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Athens Twilight, Mountain racing, and Mass
So much to write about. I don’t know if I have the time to cover it all, but here’s a list for quick purposes: Friday: 25 miles ended up riding mass with a friend a kid kicked over some bags of leaves and I cleaned it up played flip cup (with water) and laughed a [...]
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Cars and Cyclists
Okay drivers, here’s the deal. If you and I are on the roadway together, and I am on a bike and you are driving a car, if you start acting weird I am going to slow down or stop until you stop acting weird. This includes stopping when you aren’t supposed to and motioning at [...]
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obesity epidemic
Apparently obesity is an epidemic. I have been hearing that for a while. I’m not a doctor, I’m just a guy who lost over a hundred pounds. In my opinion, obesity isn’t an epidemic, it’s a symptom of epidemic laziness. Stop eating at McDonalds. Stop smoking. Stop drinking so much beer. Stop sitting on your [...]
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west end old
Here’s how I know I am old. I pulled up to a stop light on my bike on Wednesday night with Chris. A car rolled up next to us blasting the Pet Shop Boys. West. End. Girls. The people in the car were jamming along. I was jamming along. We all waited for the light. [...]
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running and riding oh my
I put in 13 miles running today, then took a nap and met Gabe and his girlfriend on my bike at the park. The park was full of Dogwood Festival doings, though, and they weren’t allowing bikes in, so we had to ride through neighborhoods to get to Fat Matt’s. And Fat Matt’s was packed, [...]
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Epic races and holey underwear
All of my underwear has holes in it. It’s because my mom used to buy me new underpants every Christmas, and she passed away in 2006. I just haven’t got the hang of buying it for myself yet. I guess I am harboring the latent hope that someone else will pick up the underwear-buying slack [...]
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Down to the velodrome
I got in from my swim yesterday and had a rest and got some work done. After a bit I noticed an email saying my buddy Chris intended to ride to the velodrome and see some of our boys ride fast and turn left. I was pretty zonked, but I decided it sounded like fun, [...]
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3000 meter April
On Monday night I determined that I would try to finish the whole “A” level swim workout in the alotted 1 hour time in the pool. Unfortunately my leg locked up on me. I also was too slow, but it sounds better to blame my leg. So, today I decided to just go swim 3000 [...]
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crampy swim
I swam down the lane tonight, kicked off the far wall, and my left leg turned into a stick. It wouldn’t move. Tighten every muscle in your left leg as hard as you can and then try to swim with it that way and you’ll have some idea of where I was at. Sort of [...]
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swine who?