I was starting to find my 101 list very hard to read, especially with all the commentary and editing I had done, so here is the trimmed-down current list. Completed or negated goals removed, including completed parts of goals (so, e.g. sushi and onigiri is now just onigiri), and all goals in edited form only. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
An encouraging statistic
I was looking more closely at the W2W route profile and noticed that the peak elevation is only 600 ft. The first major climb of the route covers 600 ft in about 2.5 miles, which is only a bit more than half the grade of Old La Honda. Assuming the map is even slightly accurate […]
The Vegetarian’s 100, just for me!
Barbara of Tigers and Strawberries, and others, had posted a meme of the “Omnivore’s 100” — 100 foods that every omnivore should try, and which ones they had tried or wouldn’t or couldn’t try, with commetary (here’s the original post. I casually remarked that someone should make a vegetarian’s 100, and Barbara obliged. Thanks Barbara! […]
Resistance is futile
As of today, I’ve officially joined the Borg.* We all got our V1s today. It’s exciting to finally have my hands on a production version. Everything about the production version is shiny and refined: the packaging makes the V1 look like a trophy, and there’s all these cute little things that go with it, from […]
Entering week 9
I took a small detour from my normal route this morning to avoid construction and happened on a park in Palo Alto I didn’t know existed. My world felt a bit wider and brighter after that. I’m getting to the point in training where I’m feeling pretty ambivalent about riding my bike so much. There […]