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  • Pre-Barton Fall Lovliness

    It hasn’t rained as much as I would have liked, but I’m prepared to attack Barton with teeth barred. The leaves are diving from the tree branches in droves now, forming big piles along the side of the road. Add water and you have a mushy leaf-slush I like to refer to as Raisin Bran. It’s...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-01-2008

  • New ‘Cross Strategy for 2008: Animal Sacrifice

    Breaking the bird’s neck seems like a bad omen but I remind myself that I believe neither in omens nor birds. Still, when I feel the bone snap under me, my heart drops into my gut and my sentence stops inside my mouth, without bothering to find a period. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-10-2008

  • From the Road…

    You’re Not Going to Believe This But… It is raining in Portland. It has been raining in Portland all week. I am as sick of writing that as you are of reading it, believe me. During the winter the rain is a backdrop. As expected and unnoticed as waking up in the morning. Training rides are...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-07-2008

  • Progress, Diversion, Perspective. In doses.

    I have always complained about the way cycling is all-consuming.  I complained about it in the beginning when I was a Cycling Widow and I will complain about it now that I am a Cycling Harlot. It takes over everything.  Everything. The clothing - it must be constantly washed and cared for. ...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-08-2008

  • Redefining Competition: On Preparing to Join the Peleton

    So much running and cycling.  So many training rides, so many heart rate files. My legs need time. They develop slower than I’d like.  I push and push and push them to go farther, climb faster, do more.  They ache all the time. Their ache is my favorite sign of progress. Indeed,...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-14-2008

  • Feeling Good Never Felt So Good

    On Saturday I got back on the bike for real.  I went out with a teammate to go long and slow.  Long and steady.  My training doesn’t usually call for LSD, so I was looking forward to ignoring the HR monitor and just riding. I wanted to learn a new route, so I called on the [...]
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-03-2008

  • Training While Sick: What’s the Verdict?

    My cousin asked me about this a little over a month ago when she was down with some really nasty cold/flu stuff.  "Should I run?" I told her to stop and get better.  Or, if she did want to get a few miles in just for sanity’s sake, to go someplace warm (a gym) and do them [.....
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-27-2008

  • Did Anyone Get the License Plate Number?

    The evil kid germs that I lamented yesterday took their full SuperPower Form inside my chest yesterday as I gutted my way through the shoot.  By this morning they were raging a small flu-war inside my body.  I am smashed and demolished. I won’t into long, painful details about all of...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-24-2008

  • 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

  • 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
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