Glen’s Tour Day 19 – September 24, 2011

Today I woke up around 5, ate some of my pizza from yesterday and went back to bed. Woke up again around 9 and ate the last of the pizza before hitting the road. Oh, I followed a passage from the Bible of Heidi, Book of Cycling 1:1: “Thou shalt have breakfast before cycling.” I [...]

Glen’s Tour Day 18 – September 23, 2011

Today it was time to get back on the road.   I rolled out around 9am this morning.  I was already on the South end of Crescent City so there wasn’t any local traffic to deal with; I just headed straight up to the first climb of the day. As I was leaving the city, not [...]

Time To Drop The Lazy

Well, it’s been a few months since I finished my bike tour. I’ve done a little bit of running, a little bit of cycling, lots of drumming and piano and the smallest amount of weight lifting (think: strength training due to osteoporosis, not "Glen wants to be a body builder"). But with my first marathon [...]

Windstorm Video of Barn Falling Over

Ok, I finally have the video of the barn falling over.  Enjoy!

A Few Windstorm Pictures

We had a wind storm come through a couple weekends ago and there’s still a mess to clean up.  I can’t really do much with my barn until the insurance adjuster comes and checks it out and that’s not scheduled until December 27th.  But I needed some time outside and it’s a nice day so [...]

Sweat Rate

Several months ago I read an article about determining your exercise sweat rate to determine how much water you lose during a particular activity.  Today I decided to find out what my sweat rate was for moderate cycling.  So I weighed myself (scale goes to tenths) before getting on the bike w/ trainer, rode moderately [...]

The Obvious Epiphany

Are all epiphanies obvious in retrospect?  “Hindsight is 20/20″ we know, but not all hindsight invokes epiphany. On my commute home I was allowing my mind to wander and was thinking about the events of the day.  I have so many fires that I’m usually fighting, or at least so many things that I need [...]

Toastmasters International

I’ve started attending Toastmasters International along with some friends from work.  Today was my second visit and (along with others) was called on for a 1-2 minute impromptu talk.  Without knowing the topic ahead of time I wasn’t able to prepare.  I won’t win any awards for my talk (or be invited again soon but [...]

Interesting Day

This day was different than most. I woke to the battery backup alarms (ie. no power), found the neighborhood and the private drive my house is on covered in downed trees with other ones about to come down and Alex’s school closed for the day. Still no power, Alex accidentally found his Christmas presents (at [...]

Two Miles, 6 MPH, Barefoot, No Breaks

And it felt wonderful!

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