Hello, 4700!

Just last week, I was aiming to get to 4600 miles. The weather was starting to get cold… down to 30 degrees at night… and I figured I was winding down for the season. I decided to skip the Red Flannel ride on November 2nd because the morning was much too cold. Instead, I rode [...]

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Ride to Work Season

I rode to work this morning, which is the second time I’ve been able to do so this year (the first time being last week). Have I mentioned how much I love to ride to work? If not, here it is for the record: I absolutely *LOVE* the freedom of riding my bike to work. [...]

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I feel like a vampire

Two days in a row of riding my bike after work. In the dark. And, on the days when I didn’t ride my bike, I emerged from the office building to total darkness. I’m starting to feel like a vampire. Really. Well, maybe not really. I don’t have a craving for blood or anything. In [...]

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Happy Halloween from the Wicked Witch of NEO

Though for me it will be just another day. I’m probably going to a wine tasting and then meeting up for dinner with a cycling friend. Not passing out candy to the little brats* who live on my street… even if they don’t walk through my yard anymore… I think I’m the neighborhood pariah because [...]

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A hopeless situation

I was so proud of myself last Sunday. Instead of riding my bike or going out or doing anything equally as distracting, I actually stayed home and mowed my lawn. I spent a few hours raking leaves on the side of the yard on which it was hopeless to try to run the mower on [...]

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Sometimes a photographer

I thought I’d get my new blog site off to a good start by showing my half-baked attempts at photography during the last several weeks. Yeah. These never quite come out the way I hope. I’m great at turning a spectacular bit of scenery into a flat and lifeless image. Here are some attempts at [...]

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Undiscovered towpath

Today I did something I haven’t done in awhile: I actually purposely went for a ride on the towpath. I decided I wanted to try a southern part of the route on which I’d never gone. Back in the day, before I became an obsessed road cyclist and mileage Nazi, when I had a trail [...]

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On spring in NE Ohio

Yesterday–Beautiful warm evening, 65 degrees; the first time riding this year where I felt completely comfortable in shorts and short sleeve jersey (though I did wear arm warmers). Slammed a 16mph average (very rare) and enjoyed a short-lived victory as I pulled out ahead of all the guys for about a mile before we hit [...]

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Day Two in the Maelstrom of The Cold

This recent outbreak of The Cold has made me sufficiently tired enough that I desire to remain immobile for long periods of time in the evening, unlike my usual multi-tasking habit of watching TV and jumping up to do dishes, clean the kitchen from the havoc of making dinner, or check e-mail at the commercial [...]

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Moonlight ride

After work last night, I donned my biking clothes and a yellow vest, fastened my little Mininewt onto the handlebars of my hybrid, and I took off into the night. What a beautiful, magical night to ride. The weather was unseasonably warm–about 60 degrees when I started and 56 towards the end of the ride. [...]

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