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2009 Ride #39

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Emigration to Pinecrest again. Didn’t feel great on the climb, but the descent is so worth the pain of getting up the canyon. Ran into Dayna up top; glad to see that her run-in with the lab in Millcreek yesterday didn’t cause too much trouble other than a little road rash.

Fought [...]

2009 Ride #38

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Kind of hot, but very, very muggy today, making breathing difficult for a fat, out-of-shape old punk like me, but still managed to roll-out another 28 miles, bringing my annual total to 802 thus far this season; not a lot, I know, but still more than I did during the entirety of [...]

Quotes of the Day

“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

  — Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, 12 August 1980, Democratic National Convention.

“There is a new wave of change all around us, and if we set our compass true, we [...]

Poetry Friday

COMING

You are driving to the airport Along the glittering highway Through the warm night, Humming to yourself. The yellow rose buds that stood On the commode faded and fell Two days ago. Last night the Petals dropped from the tulips On the dresser. The signs of Your presences are leaving the House one by [...]

New look / under construction

Somehow, my blog theme got munged, and is causing all sorts of problems … so I’m using a temporary theme until I can find a good new one, or figure out what happened to my original one.

Not everything is as pretty, I know, but we’ll get something figured out soon enough.

2009 Ride #37

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Felt much better today than Friday; most likely because it wasn’t as hot … and because I didn’t have to deal with multiple wasp stings. Emigration to Pinecrest, but instead of home via 20th East, I came back along Wasatch. Had to stop at Canyon because my shifting was off. You’d think [...]

A shout-out to Land Rover-Orbea

So David Bernstein from the Fredcast sends a tweet last night indicating that there will be a little tweet-up BBQ at the Land Rover-Orbea tent in front of the 8th Ward LDS Chapel on 5th South at 3rd East.

So before I headed downtown today, I threw a few bottles of Belgian barley pop [...]

Tour of Utah Stage 4 (Snowbird)

A few images from Stage 4 of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, presented by Zion’s Bank.

Alex Howes moments before winning the Tour of Utah’s 4th stage to Snowbird

Burke Swindlehurst is about to take 2nd place

Mancebo finishing third and wraps up the yellow jersey.

Darren Lill takes [...]

2009 Ride #36 (aka the crappy Friday ride)

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Flatted a relatively new Vittoria Corsa CX-EVO, had a massive asthma attack, and got stung 3 or 4 times by a wasp stuck in my jersey under my armpit. This day sucked.

Hopefully my bad luck today is only limited my own bike riding, and not to my photographs of other cyclists [...]

Poetry Friday (mountains edition)

After seeing the majesty of Mt. Nebo, above Payson and Santaquin, Utah yesterday, I had to find a good mountain poem for today … and where better to turn than the poetry of China?

GAZING AT THE SACRED PEAK

What’s this ancestor Exalt Mountain like? An unending green of north and south,

ethereal beauty Change-Maker [...]