Because I’ve had a bout of writer’s block, I am adopting the meme that seems to be cropping up on all of the cycling blogs I read: Q. If you could have any one – and only one – bike in the world, what would it be?A. A JP Weigle Randonneur frame (painted by Sacha […]
Day One: Saturday’s route was mostly similar to last year’s, taking us from the took us from the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute to Pendleton, west to Echo, north to Hat Rock state park and back southeast to Pendleton. Because it was a little rainy when we started, I wasn’t paying much attention to the lack of
After telecommuting most of the morning, I drove down to Pendleton for the three-day Century Ride of the Centuries (“CRoC”). I broke up the monotony of I-90/I-82 with a little jaunt down Yakima Canyon road: During this evening’s orientation, Chuck Wood (the CRoC emcee) mentioned a request from Lieutenant Commander Randy Lee and Captain Jeffrey
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I sat in on only 11 sessions today, down from 24 yesterday and 21 on Monday. (The coolest thing was seeing work on modeling turbidity flow in Monterey Canyon. Mentioned in another session as an example of how boiling water can instantly freeze was this video.) Indeed, most of the day was spent wandering
The AGU fall conference I’m attending this week has, like, a million posters and talks… enough to keep me busy all week. I’m certain that after sitting in on presentations with weighty titles like “Radiative Forcing of Anthropogenic Coffee” or “Observing Rumor Kinetics in a Temperate Office Ecosystem” or “Magneto-tantric Fluxes in Product Requirements,” I
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Like John and Claire, I rode today to coax myself out of the holiday doldrums. The trip home was Seattle winter crud: 39°F, heavy rain, dark, and windy. I was soaked, but thanks to the wool underlayer, I stayed warm as long as I kept moving. Fortunately I have a lot of hill climbing on
I carry a spare tube so when I get a flat, I can just swap it out and be on my way quicker. Using this method, changing a flat add “only” about 10 minutes to my time into work or to home. On the way in Monday, I had multiple flats, which means that after
[After I wrote this, I found Peter McKay’s writeup of his awful commute home. @#^* Wish him a speedy recovery.] John and I are both trying to ride 5,000 miles for the year. October was comparatively better in the number of days ridden and the miles per ride. (The motivation of not hitting my September