went for a beautiful, windy, chilly, hilly 50-mile ride yesterday, bringing my total mileage since the first ride of the season, on march 2, to 234. the google terrain map of yesterday's route looks like a piece of crumpled paper that someone has half-heartedly attempted to flatten back out. really!afterwards i was craving Chipotle to such a ( Read more... )

favorite cycling sock, lost behind washing machine ( Read more... )

mainly i am annoyed with myself. the actions of others are incidental and only have an impact on my sense of self-worth if i let them. there are so many people in my life who affect me in a good way, and it is counterproductive to focus so much on the bad. i will work on this - try to concentrate as much (or more) on the good things in life/ ( Read more... )

so very annoyed with myself, others.

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the reason i ask is that i am currently netflixing my way through early seasons of ER. last night i finished season 5, disc 3. there is an episode where dr. romano shows up for surgery fresh from tying one on at the surgeons' xmas banquet or something. dr. benton ends up body checking him (you know, to keep the hands sterile) and he falls into ( Read more... )

so give me your opinion:

when did ER jump the shark?

just heard that my cycling clubmate has a fractured pelvis. she's home and recovering and it sounds like surgery will not be necessary, which is a huge relief. another cyclist was hit and severely injured in SF today. i guess this sort of thing happens all the time, but it does not make it any less scary. sounds like the cop who killed the two ( Read more... )

yesterday was a beautiful day for riding, but apparently a bad day to be a cyclist. it was about 70 degrees and sunny, and i met up with my club for a nice 45-mile mostly-flat ride from san leandro to fremont and back. i ended up in a group of four riders at the front, and since the road was straight and flat and we had already been delayed by ( Read more... )

i am officially re-addicted to cycling, yay! with the increasing afternoon daylight hours (which will increase even more drastically starting this sunday), i am able to really take advantage of my 7-4 work schedule on wednesdays and thursdays. today i took the bike to work and afterwards, rolled out towards the oakland hills with my friend and ( Read more... )