It’s been about six months since the last time I wrote anything here. My relationship with writing resembles my love/hate relationship with running, especially in the winter: I agonize about starting, I’m slower than I’d like to be, but when I finish I feel better about myself and am glad I followed through. But much…
Palomar Century ride – training report
About 20 years ago, when I lived in Fallbrook and drove a Jeep, I used to drive my jeep up to Palomar Mountain and find dirt fire-roads and trails along the way to justify owning a 4×4 in rural Southern California. One time, somewhere amongst the 12 miles of switchbacks rising up over 6000 feet…
Polish Wedding
A couple weeks ago, I had the great honor to travel to Poznan, Poland to attend my brother’s and sister-in-law’s wedding. If a typical European vacation could compare to a 5 year courtship, I did the speed dating version. It was a four day round-trip that included about 50 hours of planes and airports, maybe…
The good life
Today I got sidetracked from work and started to fill out an application to be an ambassador for a triathlon/sports nutrition company. One of the prompts in the application was “describe your perfect day”. Once I got over how odd a question to base my worthiness of representing the product this was and started to…