Author: karen
Tuesday Trippin’ February 21
The Rides Tuesday (the day after the cold ride I wrote about last week) was low key. I took it mostly easy in case I wasn’t quite over Monday. The next day Russ and...
Tuesday Trippin’ February 14
Yesterday was sunny. The high was in the 60s, glorious day for a ride, right? But, I had school bus duty and an appointment to finish my dental crown right in the middle of...
Tuesday Trippin’ February 7
Training We’ve had some good rides, getting better too. Today I was actually warm enough to want to take off a layer. I think we’ll be riding at the same level soon, but it...
Endurance Bikes 2023
Many project decisions have been clear and easy, but bicycles are the difficult exception. Until the project I never paid attention to bicycle features unless I had to buy one. Then I just went...
Tuesday Trippin’ January 24
The Training Training was good, as good as weather let it be. The weather had whiplash level change with the recent very cold front, and now the daffodils are blooming. It feels a little...
Tuesday Trippin’ January 17
The hits keep coming. The car died. I’ll get to find out sometime tomorrow if it is worse than a dead battery, and Ill get a second opinion on that 5K of work that...
Tuesday Trippin’ January 10
The Situation Losing his job gave us some much appreciated freedom to spend team time concentrating on the project, but not as much as you might think. Job search is a full time pursuit...
Truckin’ On in These Uncertain Times
Do those last three words in the title make you cringe the same way they do me? I have to poke fun at my life right now. It’s just the only choice I can...
Is it a Leap of Faith, or the Leap of a Lemming?
When people take a big chance, succeed and talk about it later, they’ll often call it a leap of faith. When people fail they’re more apt to describe it as following fellow lemmings off...