Almost exactly a year ago, I crashed on Mt Hood, fracturing my spine in 2 places.
So, I celebrated the anniversary by spraining my ankle in Oakridge while at Mountain Bike Oregon Guide in Training day.
It was a dumb accident; the trails were wet and slippery, and I was being overly cautious. At one
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Back in September of last year, my friend N sent me an email one fateful day “Hey, so there are a few spots open on the Oregon Stampede ride that’s in 5 days, want in?” Ohhh hey, 120 miles, 60% gravel, and I need a new bike for it? Sure sounds fun!
After surviving that, I [...]
I’m not really sure what I was expecting, showing up to a race having been on my mountain bike 3 times this entire year and doing absolutely no interval training whatsoever.
I guess I was hoping for a miracle.
The morning started out as expected: running on a slight hangover with 6 hours of sl
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I went into this race with two goals in mind: 1) Finish the race and 2) Not get last.
You might be thinking those goals don’t sound very impressive. But I would like to point out that I raced this as a cat 3, and I haven’t completed a road race since King’s Valley, in April [...]
I feel that I am constantly digging, chipping away at myself. Struggling to put my finger on some elusive simple fact that will explain everything. My restlessness, my insecurities, my perfectionism.
As if one day my shovel will hit a metal box, and I, trembling with excitement, will slide my dirty
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Against my better judgement, I signed up for Cherry Blossom, despite not having road raced since doing 1/2 of sublimity last year and dropping out. I looked at the OBRA calendar and was shocked to see that Horning’s is merely two weeks away, and I have yet to ride a mountain bike this year. Ye
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After making my last post about feeling very stuck, I came to a few realizations. First of all, I’m being very whiney about having some very good problems (oh woe as me, I have a job that pays a lot and is only a few days a week, even if it is in a cube [...]
Due to popular demand (by one person), I am going to start posting some of the “recipes” that I cook that are generally easy, healthy and cheap. Often it’s more of a method than a recipe, involving a lot of experimentation and using whatever is lying around. So here we go!
Crockpot
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The last few months have been a real struggle for me in a lot of ways. I have been stuck in a kind of swirling vortex of indecision hell, where I can’t seem to decide what I want, what to do, where I want to go, in terms of Big Life Decisions like my career, [...]
Is it winter blues? is it something else? I don’t know, but I feel completely and utterly stuck. Like one of those dreams where someone is chasing you and you’re running like hell, but you’re not actually going anywhere. That’s what I feel like I’ve been doing for the l
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