Ride 2010-14:Gun-shy
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday’s ride was nothing short of a disaster – both in terms of performance and circumstances surrounding the ride. Getting a flat sucks under any circumstance, but when it accompanies such lousy feelings in the legs (as the pros would say), it’s a true double whammy. Of course, weather...
Ride 2010-13: Truly Unlucky Thirteen
It started out with high hopes and a new-found energy. Yesterday, after work, I purchased my final bike-related toy for 2010 and was eager to give it a try. As you likely figure from my updates, I like to have data that supports each ride. It is probably the geeky engineer within me that needs...
Ride 2010-12: The Big Lean
When it comes to computers, I find myself to be fairly agnostic. I’m neither Mac nor PC nor Linux nor Unix nor [insert your favorite OS]. I’ve worked with enough types of operating systems throughout my engineering career to consider them simply as utilities to accomplish a task. I don’t have much alliance around one...
Ride 2010-11: I’m Less Sore on the Bike
A truly perfect weekend for cycling means that I had no choice but to put in the miles. With all the preparation to the bike, purchasing odds-n-ends pieces of equipment, buying specialized clothing for any situation – it doesn’t matter a bit unless I put the miles into my body. Cycling is about cycling, not...
Ride 2010-10: The Return of the Bugs
With the ache of yesterday’s ride still expressing itself in my legs, the weather was simply too nice not to ride – so I jumped on the bike for a “recovery ride”. Real cyclists use recovery rides after hard efforts to simply keep some movement in the legs, but perform no hard pulls and generally...
