After 20 years on LiveJournal, in 2022 I transitioned to another blogging platform.

Although you can still find my historical blog entries here, everything from 2022 forward will only appear on the new site.

To continue reading my cycling journal, and see new posts as they are written, point your browser at the following URL:
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Back in September, I closed out one of my posts by saying that

These days, the descriptor “epic” gets thrown around pretty casually, but “epic” is a very fitting word for the ride that demands everything a cyclist has got.


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Having plenty of time for back-burnered projects is one of the few benefits of spending ten hours a day in an out-of-state hospital room for three weeks at a time.

In this case, I’ve taken the time to go through my entire cycling blog, adding descriptive index tags to all 366 entries. This ( Read more... )

Not really. But over the past couple years, a strange thing has happened: people have come up to me and introduced themselves while saying that they read my cycling blog.

In both the 2011 and 2012 Pan-Mass Challenge rides, a fellow rider looked over at my name tag and announced that he’d read my stuff.

Then last week I was boarding a flight from ( Read more... )