August 2010
9 posts
an epic night
today is a very important day.
it’s the week anniversary (weekiversary?) of several very important things:
lauren’s birthday
our 3rd consecutive loss as safeway select mustard bocce players. (i do believe this makes us last. the good news, there is nowhere to go from here but up! it is because of that, that i will celebrate. why? bc today my glass is half full.)
the infiltration...
yes i am precious →
another team fatty member, noodle (who is hilarious by the way) (oh, and ridiculously generous to boot, she contributed to me during my 100 miles of nowhere), is doing a pretty amazing fundraiser for LIVESTRONG.
i was going to wait to link to her, but i can’t contain it anymore…you MUST check out precious.
noodle is riding across the country on precious (her bike) and precious...
86 flat miles ain't no joke
this weekend’s long ride was…long.
but pretty fucking awesome.
but long.
got that? long, but fucking awesome.
moving on…it tuns out that i ride 86 miles alone at about 15 mph on average. not so much in the 16-19 range i was hoping for. but i haul ass on downhill and go faster than expected on uphill, partially due to said ass hauling, but partially bc i see hills as bite...
losing my balance
i few weeks ago i was in colorado. alone. with a bike. and a car.
and i was at peace for the first time in a very very very long time. in fact, i didn’t really know i wasn’t at peace until a few days into that trip and i felt something in my heart and soul that i almost didn’t recognize.
and i tried very hard to hold onto that upon my return.
but it’s slipped away.
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operation beautiful
I have written about operation beautiful before, but that was quite some time ago. Since then, Caitlin turned it into its own website and written a book. Yesterday the book was officially released and this morning she appeared on the today show at 8:35 promoting the book. i can’t wait to read it.
amazing woman.
amazing concept.
bravo.
im guilty of fat talk. i’m...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAUREN!
I call this:
lauren turns 28 today: a photo essay
i met lauren on the interwebs.
craigslist to be exact.
see, i lured her into my perfect mt pleasant home, only to get us evicted just 50 days later.
actually, that’s just my dramatic side, we left, last minute, according to the terms of our lease, which lauren was not yet on. damn fine print.
this is lauren exactly 1 year ago...
100 miles of....hills
so, i’m at the stage where i can’t stop thinking about philly…so, i’m probably going to do a lot of babbling about it in the next 18 days. don’t hate.
back in may when i did the 100 miles of nowhere, i convinced myself that if i could do that silly loop 30 whatever times with all the wind and none of the training, that i could do 100 miles in philly no problem....
19 days and $1349 to go
Dear friends and family…
Holy smokes, when I went to count the days remaining for the subject line of this update, I’ll admit it gave my heart a bit of a jolt…19 days until 100 miles in Philly!
I thought I’d pass along another update…I’m pretty excited. I just mapped out my last long training ride - 85 miles - for this weekend, then I’ll tapper a little...