MY MOTHER HAS A NEW TOY, and today I got my first ride in it. How many guys can say their mom drove them to church in a red convertible with the top down? The congregation was duly impressed. Stylin' it on a Sunday morning. Dad, rest his soul, is likely rolling his eyes up …
Category: Running & Cycling
Running on Empty (Stomach)
TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT something before a morning run – that is the question. Opinion is divided, with emphatic claims on both sides. All you have to do is Google “running on empty stomach” to see for yourself. I’d always had something small before my Saturday morning long runs, usually a banana and/or …
Feeling Alive
THE TUESDAY EVENING RUN WAS EVERYTHING I had looked forward to: sunny and warm, and a fired-up group ready to hit the road. We basically did a park tour – Wheeler Park to Gallup Park, then through the Arb (including a nice little half-mile hill) to campus and back to Wheeler for 7 miles overall. …
Responsibility Sucks
TWO INCREDIBLE DAYS IN A ROW, AND I’M STUCK in the office. Sunny and in the 70s with a cool breeze. It doesn’t help that I passed a few cyclists on the way to work. It wouldn’t take much right now for me to get back in the car, drive home, change, hop on the …
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