Solvang Prelude: Pre-Ride Report

The Solvang Prelude was my first organized bike-only event, with a choice of a metric century, 50 mile or 25 mile courses. The Santa Ynez Valley is one of my favorite places in California: wineries, golden rolling hills studded with oak trees, twisty scenic roads,...

Dangerous consumerism

Obligatory knitting content: Progress continues on Mom’s Angora. Planning on getting a lot done on it today just because it’s an overcast cloudy day (after days of bright blue skies and actually going into the water at the beach yesterday) and going to...

Solvang Prelude Ride Report

The organizers were letting us go in packs. Dave and I waited a little bit after we turned the first corner just in case we’d see Mel. No luck. A nice downhill starts the course. Besides the fact I was freezing I was pretty happy. Then the climbing started....

Running week

This week’s been a running week. I went running with Dave (well, we started at the same/time place and ended at the same place) Wednesday a.m., then Dave, Mel and I went to the track Thursday a.m. and had some fun with intervals. Iced my shins in the Pacific...