Cross season has finally started, with the first race in the area at Cannonsburg Ski Area last Friday night. I’d ridden my cross bike all of a couple hundred yards since April, so needless to say, there was a little rust to shake off. I got there early, watched the “C” race while drinking a …
Author Archives: Luke
Running in circles
There was a man with a leaf blower at the state park this morning trying to clear the sidewalk that leads to the pier of sand. The sidewalk that cuts over the beach and is surrounded by sand. The sidewalk that ALWAYS has sand blowing over it because well, it’s the beach. And it was …
I sold my Subaru Forester, the only car I’d ever known. We had a lot of good times. She took me to a lot of important places. I’m going to miss her, I know it. I bought a new Subaru Outback. I named her Sydney. Sid, for short. I’m going to give her her first …
What I have to offer is myself
I’m going to go turn off my TV, go outside, and hop on my bike now.
Lately
I’ve been riding my bike. Threw in a century for fun. I’ve logged over 2000 miles this year already. I’ve been sitting on my back patio in the evenings reading books. I’ve been hanging out at the beach and drinking beer and trying my hand and stand up paddle boarding. We lit some fireworks and …
Some more about proton therapy
I finally got my hands on one of the brass apertures that was used for my proton radiation therapy. It took a few months for the radioactivity to decay to safe levels, and my parents were finally in the area and picked it up for me. That’s it on the right. It governed the shape …
Let’s catch up
It’s been awhile. Ever since vacationing in California I’ve been disconnecting from technology more and spending more time outside in nature, whether that’s on my road bike, or at the beach, or on my back patio drinking beer and watching the light get low. The faster I catch up with the past 6 weeks of …
Overdue Race Reports
Barry-Roubaix Back in March, I did my first real bike race (cyclocross is a different animal). Conditions were nearly perfect with temperatures holding in the 50s. It was a mix of pavement, gravel roads, and two-track, along with a thousand or so other racers. I was pretty unsure of what to expect, so I started …
I was in Alabama all last week for work, and now I’m out of sorts. It was my first real experience traveling for work, and though there weren’t really any big surprises, time went exponentially faster. After working all day, my computer remained off and I was oblivious to all the news stories enveloping the …