Bedrock & Paradox

From our front deck.

I posted this back in May. M took this 2 hours ago. This would be my opinion of (what I am told is) a moderately sprained wrist. Yes it hurt to extend that finger. Cloud on the way home from the hospital. The fixie bit again, and at the aforementioned bit of trail, went down…

Slow day at the office this morning. Lingering soreness, and heat we haven’t seen in over a month. What better to do than hide inside an turn on the oven? Turkey bacon and diced green pepper and tomato. My side has spinach and feta.

Old. And new. (but what the hell are those guys tugging against, anyway?) Faster? Absolutely. Had some good fun doing two laps of the Old-Fashioned Mtb Race course. Messed around on the first, finding trail junctures and letting my legs stretch out after yesterday. Then I changed bottle and put the hammer down, clocked a…

I can’t help but wake up at 0600 or earlier these days, which today gave me time to relax and drink coffee while watching the sun poke up above the Mingus plateau to our east. A smattering of nice high cumulonimbus enhanced the experience. I got in a fantastic power workout yesterday evening, tempered only…

A graph that is indeed worth a thousand words. A few I can think of: 1949 was the year of India’s independence. The 50’s and 60’s marked the height of the Chinese Cultural revolution.Ths US grew steadily from the Market Revolution of the 1830’s all the way through WWII, then slowed. (Or the rest of…

I’m getting serious. Things have a way of sneaking up, and with things as monumental as the Wasatch 100 on tap for next year, I do not want shit sneaking up on me. Or to be more accurate, I don’t want to let myself get lazy and let things sneak up while I’m willfully looking…

The middle-class values of nonviolence, literacy, long working hours and a willingness to save emerged only recently in human history… -N. Wade It’s hard to not fall into the luddite, primitivist trap when you read it, but it begs interesting questions nonetheless. I do think that the importance of the America’s is likely greater than…

Racing resumes in 13 days, when I’ll be poaching the 12 Hours of the Peaks, an underground SS lap race in Flagstaff. While I don’t have the Lev back yet, I hope I’m not too bold in presuming it will back within the week. Technical terrain, lots of climbing, should be fun. No goals or…

Sometimes I just need to get away and be quiet, and the Grand Canyon in summer is a very still place. I busted out of work Friday afternoon, and 3 hours later had my permit and was headed down. Here’s a rain cell moving over Bright Angel canyon and the north rim lodge. Looking back…