Big Hill Ride

Today I plan to ride up the largest hill in the area. It’s several miles up and the grade can be as much as 18% towards the top. On my morning walk I was excited. Now I’m nervous. Am I strong enough? Will I have enough lung capacity, aerobic ability? Maybe the...

Weird Ride

Well, yesterday was a cold ride. Sun was out when I got home from my morning walk with the dog, but the fog was starting to roll in. It has a brown, grey cast and is less dense looking than clouds. I knew there was a possibility of rain, but it didn’t show up on my...

New Start

Mid year seems hardly a new start, but we just sold our old truck. It was part of an era for us. It was an old Explorer that moved with us from house to house as we moved around the country. Selling it so someone who was really interested and wanted to fix it up was...

Health

This is such a broad concept. What is health? What is healthy? And there is all the other stuff like, how do you get/stay healthy? Medical care – how much is too much vs. not enough? Questions, questions…. I have a healthy feeling body, but when cancer was growing in...

Cold Ride

On my ride yesterday I was reminded of how cold fog can be out here! I remember fog as a child in Colorado and it was a warm, enveloping, mystical thing. You could kind of see, but not really. Plus all the horror movies had some kind of foggy scene somewhere. Just to...

Skin

Now this is a subject you only have early in the season as a cyclist. Yesterday I went for a ride that included 2 decent hills. My butt is sore (read skin and bones) because it just hasn’t had time to toughen up. I’m sure a comparison could be made with horseback...