First real ride of the season today! (pictured: my beautiful and long suffering ride, a 2001 cannodale T800 that has been my only vehicle since, well, 2001). After a really patchy season last year (too much time on my butt writing), I feared the worst, but it was fantastic. We had beautiful weather the whole time, managed a respectable pace, and I ( Read more... )

Received an email back from the biomechanics guy in Arizona. He says that there are lots of self-styled fitters/biomechanics who don't know what they're doing (which is true; there's someone claiming to do that at every bike shop and REI), doesn't have any suggestions in the northwest, and says "I could fit you in in June if you fly to Tucson.o_O ( Read more... )

As fellow Washingtonions will no doubt confirm, there was SUN this weekend. In the SKY. With the light and the warmth and everything ( Read more... )

I just rode home in the pouring rain and showered all the road grime off. I let the kitties in and they mobbed me -- crazy, uber cuddly, we-must-be-in-contact-at-all-times, LOVE ME! I will lick you and cherish you and call you george and you will pet me and LOVE ME! NEEEEEOW! No! We will not wait for you to get dressed! We shall dry you with our ( Read more... )

I am so fucking Pacific Northwest today. I rode my bicycle to work in the pouring rain, stopped for a latte at The Ubiquitous Roadside Coffee Shack, and carried it the rest of the way in my water-bottle holder ( Read more... )

My little brother is off to school! YAY! Folks dropped him off in Ellensburg yesterday, and Saturday night we had a going-away dinner at the Olympic Club in Centralia, where we had a blast playing pool. Reasonable games for everyone (bearing in mind that both Doozer and I are total n00bs), and then an EPIC GAME OF FAIL for Andrew and I. Apparently ( Read more... )

This weekend I ordered Quicken 2009, and today the order confirmation arrived ( Read more... )

This Saturday, Brad and I rode a century.

Weekend tally:

States visited: 2
Intrepid liberal cyclists beaten up in Idaho: 0!
Ron Paul signs sighted: vast multitudes
Average town population: 900
Horses herded by bicycle cowboys: 1
Car tires shredded: 1
Miles ridden: 100.75
Life goals achieved: 1!

This weekend ( Read more... )

I went dancin' in Seattle, talked to Luke (forgot to get an e-mail, damn!), visited Em's cat, and made it back to Oly in time to beat my folks' to the market, even though I started in Seattle and took the city bus. Boo. Ya ( Read more... )