Salon’s even picked up the Xtracycle story. I’ve gotta get one of these soon. There’s a story that I want to tell, too, which has nothing to do with cycling, but does have to do with a lesser-known vehicular interest of mine: identifying and comparing car models. For someone who doesn’t drive, I pay an […]
Training pondering
This is the second full week and third week of training for me. It didn’t start out so well. Sunday I was supposed to do a shortish 10 mile ride, but I miscalculated and did 15 mi. I felt fine afterward, though very tired, so I thought it was probably okay, but I woke up […]
Toronto: activities
What I actually did in Toronto: The ROM. You can see one of the most interesting things about it from the website — the building was recently renovated and a “Crystal” added on to the front. It wasn’t as crystalline as I expected from the name, but it’s an interesting addition. The interface between the […]
Toronto: transit
My experiences with transit and cycling in Toronto were almost uniformly overwhelmingly positive. If only it wasn’t so cold there, I’d totally want to live there. When I first arrived, I got a GO bus and then the TTC subway into downtown Toronto. This had two complications. One, GO and TTC are different systems, so […]
Ride report: Saturday 2 — Longest ride without a long break
DST: 33.7 (target 34) AVS: 13.5 (eh) MXS: 32.4 (don’t know – on Cañada somewhere I think) Ride time: 2:29 Total time: 2:45 My route today is really too long to describe because I did some squirrelly things to add distance and interest, but the main streets were: Santa Cruz (via Menlo neighborhoods) > Junipero […]
First “brisk” ride
I’m trying not to post all my W2W stuff on here — I have a separate training diary that I keep on the back of my door. But today’s ride was kind of interesting. It was the first ride of the “brisk” rides. The training program indicates rides as “Easy”, “Pace”, or “Brisk”. These aren’t […]
Topic-fronting with “I know from”
Reading Barbara’s lovely discussion about “how local to go”, I was blindsided by this amazing sentence: Cornmeal, we know from, but millet — to most Appalachians, that stuff is birdseed. The “we know from” construction is fairly familiar to me from informal speech and writing. It’s a favorite of Sars. A few examples from her: […]
tying together two themes of my life lately
I’ve been to or known of a lot of weddings of people I know this year, including two in June (both lovely, and very different). Thus I was charmed to find my interest in transit combined with this recent swell in weddings in Annie’s post about a couple traveling to their own wedding on the […]
Ride report: First W2W weekend training ride
Ride stats: DST: 29.8 (target 30) AVS: 14.7 (go me, target was really around 14) MXS: 30.7 (Woodside descent) Ride time: 2:01 Total time: 2:30 Route: Laurel > Valparaiso > Alameda > Woodside > Cañada to 92, back the same route except Valparaiso > Middlefield > Willow > Alma > Burgess to add a bit […]
Wordly!
Not surprisingly, when I created a Wordle it came out with a lot of cycling words. Hat tip: Annie Mole