Category: N.O.S.
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Kokopelli 2008: Critique
I’ve been dreading this, and putting it off, for a couple days now. The KTR ’08, which was to be the culmination and triumph of my season, was a decidedly mixed bag. Plenty of success, plenty of failure. And I’m still learning to deal with failure. The Lenz at rest this afternoon. I wanted to…
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Kokopelli ’08: Narrative
Food is key. MTBR narrative here. Numbers here. (Marshal?) Postgame later. I’m beat. Spent the afternoon and evening cleaning, organizing, drinking some recovery beers. Quite frankly, too much in my head to put it all in order. Backing up: We did have to get to Moab. Friday we hung out, then hiked Elephant Butte in…
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On tapering
It’s been a lazy week thus far, by design. Today, for instance, I’ve done little since I got home other than eat, talk to Ed on the phone, and take a two hour nap. It’s strategic healing from the week before last. Riding the Kokopelli on Saturday is my big goal for the year thus…
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May flowers
They’re still out there, but not why I’m regretting leaving the camera at home. We got snow this morning! Snow line is hovering, for the moment, just above work at around 6k. A student from Missoula informed me that this is great MT spring weather.
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This is really damn funny.
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Things that are wrong
In the Grand Canyon. M and I headed up spontaneously yesterday, figuring it’d be almost the last occasion it quite a while. There were some sad and silly thing to be seen in the height of tourist season. I hate horses. Mules are only marginally better. Someone needs their vasectomy reversal confiscated. Now they even…
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Riding Today
Eric and his wife, Heather, were kind enough to invite us out to dinner last night. Then, I got invited on a ride this morning. Inspired by Fred, I decided to ride to the trailhead. It was excellent. Over 40 miles of riding before 1100. I wrote a bit more about it here. My Lenz…
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Take the pledge
To skip Lions-Marys, in favor of Mack Ridge and Moore Fun. No matter what may come to pass.
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More words
Deep in the American grain, particularly in the grain of white male working-class voters, that is the more trusted archetype. Whether Senator Clinton’s pugilism has elevated the current race for the nomination is debatable. But the strategy has certainly remade the political world for future female politicians, who may now cast off the assumption that…
Bedrock & Paradox 