TandemHearts

I’m under 150 pounds now and out of the Athena division!  My clothes have steadily become looser and looser and I have to belt my pants to keep them where they are suppose to be. (more…)

August 2006

To complete a double century, you have to be a little mental. Eventually things will begin to hurt, maybe you won’t want to eat and you have to figure out how to manage that. You have to decide what is pain you can deal with and what pain is worth DNFing for. It’s a thin line. (more…)

I now work for Lonely Planet, a publisher of travel guides. Because Lonely Planet wants everyone in the organization to understand the mind of the traveller, one of my goals for the year is to do some travelling. We didn’t have any big plans during the alloted window to complete the assignment, so we took a day trip to ride bicycles at Point Reyes National Seashore. It was a nice hilly 50 mile ride, with generally good weather.

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Mt. Tam in Marin county is the home of mountain biking. We finally made it over there and spent the day riding with friends. The ride was great, if a little warm. Just 800 feet from the bottom of the last big descent, Thom dumped his bike – banging his arm pretty badly. The ranger shuttled Thom back to the car. The X-ray says “broken”.