I’m back! Actually, I’ve been back for a while now. Nearly a month, in fact. I know what you’re thinking. Where have you been? I hear you all asking. What have you been doing? Why haven’t you written? I could make some lame excuse about being continually busy working big races, unpacking and cleaning up, …
Now Leaving Reality, Return Date Uncertain
So long to the world I live in and the life I know! For a week or so, anyway. Yes, I'm in Nevada, about to enter Black Rock City on the playa, for my first-ever Burning Man experience. While I'm immersed in whatever mind-blowing universe they've built there, I will be disconnected from "defaultia" as …
Done Lots of Sweating – Time to Burn!
BEEN A LITTLE WARM THIS SUMMER, hasn’t it. But it hasn’t stopped me from training. Even the VM150, with its two days of 90+ degree heat and blazing sun, was useful to me. What for? Well, in three weeks I head to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, for a small social gathering they call …
Sorry, Getting Older Doesn’t Suck
Yesterday I was at the annual picnic for the tech company I work at, conversing with some folks around my age. I don’t remember what sparked it, but someone made a remark about how getting old sucks. “I can’t think of a single good thing about getting older,” she said. And everyone else agreed. I …
