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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Back to School

RAN INTO (WELL, WITH) MY FORMER RUNNING 101 INSTRUCTOR this morning, who was back from California for a visit. Turned out she was done with the West Coast and on her way to North Carolina for a new job selling gear for Columbia Sportswear. True to form, she was zipping along at the head of …

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Feeling the Heat

IT HAD COOLED OFF TO 96 DEGREES by 6:30 p.m., the start of the regular Wednesday evening run from Running Fit downtown. At least there wasn’t any doubt about what clothes I’d need; as light as possible on everything (man, my new Kinvaras feel really good in this weather). And lay on the suntan lotion. …

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If It’s Not One Thing, …

BACK ON THE BIKE for an evening ride, after yet another trip to the bike shop on Sunday. I had put the repaired front tire back on at home (see my June 3 post), only to find that the brakes were grabbing. Fiddle as I might with the cable and adjustment screws, I couldn’t get …

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