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2011 Ride #25

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One of the good things about the Tour de France ending today? I won’t be sitting at home watching the race in the mornings, and then going out for my rides during the hottest part of the day. I knew it was going to be a bad one when my heart rate [...]

2011 Ride #21 (Emi + Wasatch)

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I am completely blown. I tried to take it easy, since the plan was to combine my two most common routes, but even taking it easy today was friggin’ hard. I must have looked it, too, since on a few occasions when I was resting in the shade trying to cool off, [...]

UTCX #1 (Bart Brings the Heat)

A short video of the first race of the 2010 Utah Cyclocross Series, held at Andy Ballard Equestrian Center in Draper, Utah. After a summer mostly lost to mono, Bart Gillespie came out and showed that when it comes to cyclocross, there is no one better in Utah, opening up a 30+ second gap [...]

Poetry Friday

IN SUMMER

Oh, summer has clothed the earth In a cloak from the loom of the sun! And a mantle, too, of the skies’ soft blue, And a belt where the rivers run.

And now for the kiss of the wind, And the touch of the air’s soft hands, With the rest from strife and [...]

2010 Ride #23

Screwed up the GPS today; so you’ll have to take my word for it.

Down Holladay Blvd. to Cotton Bottom, then up past the Old Mill to Porcupine. South on Wasatch to Danish Road; Danish to Bengal Blvd. to 27th East, back to Porcupine on Fort Union, then dropped back down past the Old Mill [...]

Poetry Friday

HEAT

Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall against her teeth. It’s beautiful Susan, her hair sticky with gin, Our Lady of Wet Glass-Rings on the Album Cover, streaming with hatred in the heat as the record falls and the snake-band chords begin to [...]

2009 Ride #28

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Doctor Cross may be able to easily drop me on a climb, but I can catch him on a descent without having to work too hard.

It was hot hot hot today. Wearing black jersey/shorts combo was probably not the wisest move, but the red made me feel like a ripe tomato. [...]

Poetry Friday

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE

Someone waits at my door. Because he is      dead he has time but I have my secrets—

     this is what separates us from the dead. See, I could order take-out or climb down

the fire escape, so it’s not as though he      is keeping [...]

2009 Ride #26

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Slightly abbreviated Wasatch Loop for me today … it’s hot out there! Lungs felt good until climbing up out of Parley’s on the bike path. Even managed to keep my heart rate below 160 until Sunnyside just before the zoo; which for me is great.

Really wish I had the cash to [...]

Poetry Friday

ELEGY V

In summer’s heat, and mid-time of the day, To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay; One window shut, the other open stood, Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood, Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun, Or night being past, and yet not day begun. Such light to [...]