Shifting Gears
Scott's right to be pissed off. I did promise him I would engage in nothing extra-curricular in these last critical weeks, and then I went into a theatre to help…
Scott's right to be pissed off. I did promise him I would engage in nothing extra-curricular in these last critical weeks, and then I went into a theatre to help…
I'm angry with Kathy. I don't think I'm right and she's wrong. Which is to say I totally think I'm right and she's wrong. But that's just because I'm angry.…
The day after I completed my first AIDS/Lifecycle ride in 2016, I woke up in my own bed, stretched and basked in the afterglow of being done with the ride,…
While Kathy was out trying to kill herself on a mountain bike trail, I was out trying to kill myself on my second 90-mile ride in a week. Unlike hers,…
I took this weekend off from serious riding to go up to the Gold Country with my husband Roger to visit a group of my college friends. Tom, Brian, Nancy…
So yes, I did have a 400-mile week. Well, to be more precise, it was 390 miles in seven rides over eight days. The AIDS/LifeCycle is 545 miles over seven…
As Kathy wrote in her Different Strokes post, we do approach cycling—and, well, life—differently. Reaching some middle ground is probably going to be our single largest challenge in riding the tandem…
To state the obvious: everyone is different. But if you ever want to know how different you are from someone else, try riding a tandem with them for awhile. Now,…
Scott's description of our first day (in this blog post) is exactly what was happening... on the outside. For me, the challenge was mostly internal, at least in the days…
Those were the words Scott repeated over and over when he was first trying to con seduce me into riding the tandem with him. "It's all about you, Kathy," he…