The weather this month has been beyond unreasonably great. Tulips are blooming already. I’ve been riding bikes lots and lots and lots. And busy with other life things too. My first race of the year is tomorrow. It’s off-road. It has rained all day today and we’re in an “areal flood advisory”. Tomorrow is going …
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Does this happen to anyone else who wears contacts? Where your sunglasses don’t quite fit the shape of your face, and so you’re riding your bike along because maybe the sun was out an hour ago and it was 40 degrees and the roads are clear even though it has started snowing again. And because …
Outside today it is Tennessee, a year ago. I’m wearing my raincoat and walking swiftly with my head down to avoid getting raindrops on the lenses of my glasses, and I should have worn another layer, because it’s cold – not at all like yesterday. Or maybe gloves, at the least. My hands are never …
Media blitz
Appear on the front page of the newspaper: check I appreciate the Onion-esque headline. “Area man does semi-notable thing”
Two weeks ago, during the blizzard when we all nearly got snowed in, I was walking on clouds and trying to soak up every snowflake. I walked down the middle of the road and felt insulated by life and by the world. Nothing could make me cold. All that snow soon melted from the unseasonably …
Last weekend I was in New York City with my family. We walked in no rush to get anywhere and ate 5 meals a day and tried to stay warm. It was excellent. I had my first post-treatment checkup with my oncologist. With the exception of a still-and-maybe-forever low white blood cell count, my blood …
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Today, I picked up my new cross bike that I had ordered back in October. And promptly slammed that stem. 3000 miles is gonna be too easy. Especially if it never snows.
Resolution
I rode bike to work today. To the other office, closer to home. It was dark and below freezing and there was ice and snow and I was on my fixie with skinny tires and people gave me crazy looks when they saw my helmet sitting on my desk. Because this is the Midwest and …
Snow
It’s the first substantial snowfall of the season, not the turning of the calendar, that makes for a better new beginning. Everything is clean. A fresh slate to play on, in. Meticulously shoveled walkways, footprints and shoe treads, tire tracks. Cars on the highway drowned out by winds buffeting the windows. It’s somehow less cold …