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2009 Rides #45/46

Yesterday’s shitty ride #45:

View Ascent activity on 26-Sep-09 at 01:33PM in a larger map

Today’s much better ride #46:

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Yesterday, my heart rate spiked from the get-go … 126 before I even started turning the cranks, and from the moment I started pedaling, [...]

Poetry Friday

THE KISS

She pressed her lips to mind.         —a typo

How many years I must have yearned for someone’s lips against mind. Pheromones, newly born, were floating between us. There was hardly any air.

She kissed me again, reaching that place that sends messages to toes and fingertips, then all the way to something like [...]

2009 Rides #43/44

Morning commute:

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Evening commute:

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Morning commute went well. Evening commute kind of sucked. I blame the lady with the heart-shaped potato … no, really, I blame the headwinds and being tired from a [...]

2009 Ride #42

View Ascent activity on 20-Sep-09 at 01:34PM in a larger map

Marginally better than yesterday; sinuses not acting up as much, but heart rate was still far higher than I would have like to see. But, I just have to keep telling myself that any miles are better than no miles, and any day on [...]

2009 Ride #41

View Ascent activity on 19-Sep-09 at 01:19PM in a larger map

Well that pretty much sucked ass. Legs felt great. Everything else felt like shit. Heart rate skyrocketed, averaging 160. Average speed was just a hair over 14 mph, and this was mostly flat/false-flate riding. It wasn’t a struggle to turn my legs over, but [...]

‘Cross Reality: the first cyclocross reality show

‘Cross Reality, a new VeloNews.com video series, will follow two pro cyclocross racers through their season – VeloNews

This cyclocross season, filmmaker Andy Frothingham will be following two professional racers through their seasons, checking in with them at events around the country and at their homes in Colorado between races. The first episode is presented [...]

Poetry Friday

AUTUMN GRASSES

In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grass the autumn moon takes refuge The cricket’s song is gold

Zeshin’s loneliness taught him this

Who is coming? What will come to pass, and pass?

Neither bruise nor sweetness nor cool air not-knowing knows the way

And the moon? Who among us does not wander, [...]

2009 Ride #40

View Ascent activity on 12-Sep-09 at 01:24PM in a larger map

Two weeks off the bike due to travel last weekend, and pure laziness during the week after work. Throw in the cold or whatever sinusy-sore throaty illness I’ve got right now, and it wasn’t a particular good day on the bike. Stayed flat, stayed [...]

Roubaix Memories

Joe Parkin, over at 6 Years in a Rain Cape has a nice little essay contest going on right now. The winner’s prize is a Cervelo Test Team kit (bibshorts, jersey, gloves) in either black or white (depending on size and inventory availability). Suggested length is 500-1000 words, but Joe says he isn’t really counting.

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Poetry Friday

SEPTEMBER

I miss the tilt and racket of your face, the collapsing factories of your anger, the shoreline wearing your boas of foam— the steel mirror of your silence, your glass contingencies, in the night’s hold. I miss the morning’s coverlet of cloud, one gull flying east over the moving distances while closer in the [...]