Courage to start over
Once again, the treadmill has failed to kill me. I’ve been trying to succeed at “Couch To 5K” for about three years now. It’s pathetic. It’s beyond pathetic, and yet I think I’ve got plenty of good excuses. I started…
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Biking
I have a Great Bridge to sell you!
My long-form bike ride takes me through three towns in 8 miles because, well, it’s the Swamp. You get to enjoy views like this: And then sometimes you come across a bridge, like this one: Lovely bridge, right? It’s the…
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Bwuk bwuk sigh
I gave up on my goal of being able to run a 5K by June. I kept trying to either do three one-mile runs (with 2 minute walking breaks in between) or two 1.5 mile runs, and the best I…
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Things I have learned
1) If you are lace-knitting in the dark, using burgundy yarn, while trying to read a chart, you’re going to have a bad time. 2) It takes thirty seconds to rip out half an hour of semi-distracted knitting. 3) If…
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The world where I bike
I thought maybe I’d show you the places where I bike, because there’s something awesome about being able to turn off on a little path you never saw before and discover a lake. Or a tiny wooden bridge over a…
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I’m not dead yet!
Bonus points if you just said, “Shut up, you big baby. You’ll be stone dead in a minute.” Well, I did it. I went to the gym and came back again. I figured out the treadmill enough to do the…
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The preamble to law
Kiddo#2 has me singing the preamble to the US Constitution (ala Schoolhouse Rock) because she has to memorize it for school. This morning I was biking into the next town while trying the “sing test” and concluded that I can…
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Bike rides and bullet points
With Kiddo#4 in school, I am now blessed with two whole hours to myself four days a week. Just think about that for a minute. Relish that. Two hours a day when I’m not concerned about whether someone’s sticking crayons…
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Creep in a Jeep
On Sunday, I took Kiddo#2 for a longish bike ride through the Creepy Zone. We live on Broken Road, a road that at one point stretched through Angelborough end to end but now exists in three chunks. Our part goes…
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craving light
I’ve only had a couple of Explores with the bike this summer, but I wanted to post at least one of them. Last week’s would have made an awesome entry because about two miles from my home, I found a…
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