From October 30, 2009On Friday, I ran (mostly) from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Because I’m not really a runner (the collar of my team bike jersey says, “Running is for Criminals”), it felt like a long way an…
2010 Season has begun
The season has begun! Pretty excited to be back at it after about 2 months of no structure. Pretty much since Interbike, I have been riding when I want and feel like it. Today started the base miles. It was a 4 hour session of pedaling through the …
Ski Bag Packing
Whether you like it or not, skis count as a piece of luggage when flying, so I always try to maximize my ski bags utility by both stuffing it full of 49.995 pounds worth of gear, and also using my gear to pad my skis.
My basic strategy is to start with a home-made guide’s tarp [...]
Venture into the new season
It’s been a good weekend. What I expected was rain and lots of time spent indoors catching up on chores; what I got was pretty much everything but.I was in the middle of doing my laundry Thursday afternoon when I first noticed sparkles of sunlight brea…
Yes I’ve been a bad blogger
Yes, I have let all my fans down. I’ve tried to come up with an excuse—I’ve been training hard, I’m tired, I had to pee for USADA, I had a camera crew follow me around for two days—but that just seems kinda lame. &nb…
Background on the Batavus BuB
I recently mentioned that the Batavus BuB was one of the new city/urban bikes that really caught my attention at Interbike. Soon, I will get a chance to try out a prototype BuB for a couple of weeks… in fact I will be picking the bike up at Renaissan…
iRunFar Summer Road Trip #1 -The Penske Chronicles
I started my summer by picking up my life (and iRunFar world headquarters) in Arlington, Virginia moving it to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California in two transcontinental road trips. I followed that up with a trail runner’s dream of a road…
Halloween
No time to write today. Much more important things going on this morning. Specifically, getting Halloween costumes ready.
Nigel is a block of Java code.
For those of you who can read this and want to know how it ends, here’s the back.
The girls — who are deeply into the Harry Potter series right now (we’re currently [...]
Nobody to blame but myself
Well it’s the last day of Official Rant Week, and I have to say it’s a real disappointment. Not a disappointment that it’s over, but a disappointment in how pathetic I was. I mean, I started out OK with the drivers. Then I actually hit my stride with t…