Lest you thought I was kidding yesterday when I said that my commute home was snowy… this morning as I made my way up the hill, the world looked like this: …and this: I had to remember my long-disused snow-biking technique: slow down; use a low gear; brake early, slowly, …
Yesterday was the first day of spring! I hadn’t noticed, actually. Though the calendar and a few of the eager trees in my neighborhood seem to think it’s time for this: (last year’s cherry blossoms on the waterfront) …today’s commute home was more like this: (February snowshoe trip to Ditch …
It’s dreary, dark, grey outside–the kind of weather where the clouds seem to come all the way down to the ground, the kind of day that makes me want to hunker inside under a blanket. Of course, work and outside obligations loom, and with those obligations comes the inevitable launching …
Today was a first for me: a 100k “populaire,” a ride put on by the Oregon Randonneurs. Randonneuring is actually something that I can’t believe I didn’t know about until recently. Randonneurs USA (RUSA) defines it as “long-distance unsupported endurance cycling [that is] non-competitive in nature, and self-sufficiency is paramount.” …
