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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Gravitron: Ten Random Thoughts to Kick Off the Weekend

    Remember the Gravitron?  It’s that dumb amusement park ride where you lean against the wall and the room spins so fast your sliding wall-pad slides up and you are lifted off your feet, pinned by the mighty G-Forces that the Carnie-in-Charge hoards over you. It was kind of fun, right? ...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-23-2008

  • 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

  • Ten Strategies for Surviving Running Workouts When Nothing is Going Right

    It happens to all of us at some point.  An uninspired workout - a grueling, excruciating, inexplicably terrible workout.  There’s no good reason for it - just no go-juice. It’s awful. This happened to me on Sunday morning.  The longest 45 minute run of my life.  Ten times...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-04-2008

  • 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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