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  • Back to the Track: Speed Workouts Without Spew

    The psychological progression of waking up early for hard workouts always entertains me. 5:30am Alarm: Roll over. Hit snooze. Tell myself I should send a cancellation text because doesn’t it look kind of gray and cold outside? 5:40am Snooze Alarm #2: Roll over. Hit snooze again. Tell myself I will...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-01-2008

  • Timothy Lake: 7400 Feet of Glory

    Mile 35: I hate Natalie Ramsland’s guts. Not because she climbs like a scared monkey, or because she’s the primary reason I am stuck on this mountain pushing gears, but because she knows what to expect next. She’s done a pre-ride. Who is she to know what agony lies around the next corner...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • A Little Baggage Doesn’t Hurt Anyone: On Packing my Suitcase of Courage

    I’m about to bite off a little more than I can chew and, you know what?  I plan to survive. Moreover - I plan to take it by storm. Tomorrow I’ll do the biggest climbing day that I’ve attempted to date.  My "normal" (read: non-cyclist) friends think it’s nuts...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008

  • Climbing Out of a Slump

    "You’re in a slump. Put your kit on."  Sal is standing in the bedroom holding my bibs.  I am laying on the big king bed holding my ugly doll with a pillow over my head: "I DONT WANT TO GO!" That is only half true but I am throwing a tantrum so this has to be dramatic. ...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008

  • To the Weather: I Hate You. Love Heidi.

    I have been sitting here trying to write about something - anything - besides the crappy weather.  It’s impossible.  Every start degrades quickly into some rant about Sal calling me a "hail magnet". I have decided to give in and just get it off my chest. I am enamored with the...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008

  • Try Not to Get Chills

    I did not TT today as planned.  I left the snow and sleet and rain to the hardmen and I followed my gut, which was following my heart, which was following my joy. I rode my new mountain bike in Forest Park with friends.  Then I went into the darkroom to do some printing. It was [...]
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-20-2008

  • Making Up for Lost Time: The Catch Up Post

    The sun came out.  Portland stretched and yawned and shielded her eyes. The bike called, so I came. On Thursday Sal and I hit the road together for the first time in a long while.  We took an old familiar route south to Oregon City, around Lake Oswego, back to Terwilliger and home.  The...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-17-2008

  • June 5, 1988: The Day the Strong Men Cried

    I want to tell you about how yesterday my furnace broke and the house was 49 degrees when I woke up.  I want to tell you how I had to wait all day long for the tech to show up during the window that the company gave me of "sometime today". I’d like to share how [...]
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-07-2008

  • Cyclists: You Have to Read This Blog

    Actually, I’m pretty sure that most of you already do. But, just in case you don’t, I have to take this moment to point you to it. This is one of those rare blogs that is both extremely informative and impeccably well-written.  Besides that, this guy truly knows the meaning of PRO and...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-01-2008

  • Just Numbers.

    Sal comes home.  He has been gone ten days. Ten days. His trips do not usually keep him for that length of time. In his absence I become a strange creature.  A bachelor of sorts, hobbling together meals that would never otherwise pass for meals, leaving dishes in the sink. Today is the usual...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2008
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