Posts Tagged ‘mtb’
Man, I was going to “sleep in” today — and by sleep in, I mean “not set an alarm.” I still woke up at 0630. So lame. Busy day, yesterday. Got the electrical work in the garage done — three overhead, hardwired fluorescent lights. And got a new 20-amp circuit done, and four new outlets [...]
• First off, I am absolutely aghast at some of the ignorant/racist/stupid shit that has been cropping up on my Internet with regards to the situation in Japan of earthquake/tsunami/pending meltdowns. Without delving too deeply into it, there have been statements from the far-right wingnuts about how Karma’s a bitch, and Japan is getting what [...]
Background: I bought these shoes because I have a history of foot injuries stretching back almost two decades, to my time in the army, and my last two seasons of cyclocross have both been curtailed by sprained feet. Historically, I’ve used the same shoe for ‘cross racing and commuting, an older Nike model, paired with [...]
As amateur athletes, we often struggle to find the balancing point where hobby and the rest of our lives overlap — and that overlap can be both time and financial. Being an endurance athlete isn’t cheap in hours or dollars, and often we get so caught-up in that we miss the bigger picture. Yesterday my [...]
So some searching around, and I finally found a WordPress template I like enough to modify for use on this site. Some minor graphics tweaks are done, and the next step is to get that little pile of photos in the upper left corner to randomize. My PHP coding is rusty, due to some dalliance [...]
I think I found a WP template that I am going to modify to create the template for this site. Pretty cool. Offseason project #1: pursuit bike. No question about this. Offseason project #2: single-speed mountain bike? Many questions about this — need? 26″ or 29″? Mix of the two? Huh. I still owe a [...]
