Ten months ago, I went out to the Insight Meditation Society for their 9-day New Years retreat. It was my first time doing a retreat of that length, and I found it vastly more dramatic and emotionally challenging than any retreat I’d ever experienced.

When I came home, I hoped to share my experiences in two separate blog posts: one public, the ( Read more... )

Had a very encouraging exchange today. I was out on a 60-mile ride with Bobby Mac, the distance training guru from Quad Cycles in Arlington. He reported that my form was very good, and I’m already well aware of my own strength and stamina beyond most of the other cyclists on the road. But beyond that, he told me twice, once individually and once ( Read more... )