Category: N.O.S.
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Woof!
Looks like my kinda course! Lots of training in the Grand Canyon in the future (starting the day of T-day, methinks). Got out for a run yesterday, and blazed the short loop 10 minutes faster than expected. Oh yes. M and I got out running this afternoon, busted out some heinous, nausea inducing interval hill…
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Gear List
I’ll try to be exhaustive, feel free to take a miss if so inclined. Bags:Arc’teryx RT 25Bibler bivy stuffsack (lashed under bars, contained bivy sack only)Homemade stuffsack (lashed under saddle, contained thermarest and some food) Clothing:Pearl Izumi bib shortsPI knee warmersPatagonia LW capilene LS shirtSS jerseyPatagonia R.5 hoodie (women’s XL altered to fit me)Patagonia Spraymaster…
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Barf
Colors are my friend. The monkey is being resurrected to it’s formal glory, awaiting only brakes. Flat bars and rim brakes suck, so old bars and levers, and a new front wheel was needed. Whoyagunnacall? Mike. Mustang OSB, black and silver Comps 32 3x, Surly bolt-on, and the full rainbow of nipples. Rainbows of nipples!!!!…
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Meme, beautiful me
Please ignore and forgive the excessive me-age, this is my lame way of uploading to picasa and preserving things for memory. These are all Harris’ excellent work. His tiny camera around the neck rig is obviously far superior, in that it gets pictures taken! Saturday morning, rolling out in the first hour. Topping the big…
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Recovery
Yesterday was a very nice day. I did, seemingly, nothing. Don’t have to go to work, sleep in, eat waffles with M, hang around, read, unpack, organize, clean, fix the bikes, swap tires, mess with the indexing, break a stem bolt (any homebrew fixes, or is it off to the shop with me?), do laundry,…
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Smoked and Hairball’d
Twas a helluva weekend. Harris was late (!) by over an hour, but we were on the road by 0730 anyway. Gorgeous weather. The first fifteen miles are buff rollers through an austere clay wasteland at the base of huge cliffs. Fast conditions would prove handy on my return the next day. Then you have…
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Assistance required
I’m off to the wilderness with the crackheads, and if we get lost…. well, I may get roasted. Tehe. Bags are packed, blahblahblah. It’s been too long since I’ve ______. And today the Escalante is part of that. On a different note, I learned today that 39% of the earth is “wilderness,” defined as an…
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Tech Weenie Fun
It’s been a while since I’ve sat down and spewed on about bike tech, as I’ve been busy with riding my excellent fleet. Betweek M’s new ride, restoring my SS to it’s former glory, and today’s exploits with the Lenz, that will be coming to an end. I haven’t changed the basic setup of the…
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The piper calls
Add.: While it may not be this exact route, fun and scenery are in store in one form or another.
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Cross Training
M and I headed off this afternoon to run errands, including picking up bar tape and cables so her bike can be built once the brakes are ordered and arrive (she has unnerving patience with these things). We were so blindingly efficient, and outright early, that we arrived at the gym over an hour before…
Bedrock & Paradox 