Bedrock & Paradox

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I’m back, taking a break from the mind numbing business of grading. It’s spring here, for the moment. The families in jeans were out riding on the bike path this afternoon, our area’s prodigious yard sales resurfacing for the first time this year. I had a damn good ride. It certainly confirmed the advice that…

And assorted vicarious moments. Pics of SSAZ surfaced overnight. Here’s me at the back being friendly, during the neutral roll-out. Scott Morris to my right hiding his shifters and gears. Yes, that’s one of the Riding The Spine guys in front. Soon after this pic Scott zipped to the front as the pack fractured, and…

Extract from The Arizona Republic today: Three California cyclists on an international ride to promote environmentalism have been sentenced to jail and banned from national parks after admitting they ran afoul of a rule designed to protect the environment by riding through the Grand Canyon. The cyclists were tracked down in Tucson after National Park…

April 1st. Grandview-Hance dayhike. All welcome, though I may well be the lone fool.

I’ve learned over the last weeks to be more proactive with work; a weekend of being mentally fried does not make for good progress on the grading front, thus the 2″ stack of papers I have sitting in my inbox right now. I’m not sure when that’s going to get done, but it needs to…

Chris Plesko just put up an excellent report from his Old Pueblo race. Learning is the hard part. Well done Chris, I admire your grit and honesty, and look forward to seeing ya in a month. Got out and “just rode” for 90 minutes this afternoon, pushing a bit on the hills to break things…

Thus far today the snow and rain have held off, so I hope to begin some interval work on the bike this afternoon. Between hiking, running, and cycling in the last eight months I’ve built an excellent base, demonstrated by my rapid recovery the last three weekends. I’ve consistently gone from thrashed to solid in…

We’ve “needed” a second car for a while, America being the car-based society that it is. Hardcore holdouts like Mr. Nice aside (and you rock, sir) I find it hard to get around from home to work to trails to store and back without a vehicle. Ergo, Josey the Xterra will become mine on a…

If there is any place where the abyss looks into the observer with ease, it is overlooking Grapevine canyon on the Tonto trail. The black schist is stark and vertical, the dull-pink granite intrusions laid diagonally. Huge and consistent stripes that blend the near wall into the far, without the river inlayed at the bottom…