COVID-19 Wk 55: Partially Vaccinated

I received my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine this past week. I wish I could express just exactly how freaking pleased I am with this. My second shot is three weeks out and then two weeks after that I hope to God that I am “good to go”. My arm was pretty sore the…

I Don’t Want to Choose

It’s fair to say that every now and again I get a little homesick for New Hampshire. There are the obvious things like……that is where most of our family is. There were some of the little things though that I was missing off and on the past couple years. For example while living in both…

Doing What I love

In 2018 Paul and I will turn 45.  This year also marks the 30th year that we have been riding/racing bicycles.  While I have never been a prolific winner, and I had to work hard to be a mediocre Cat. 3 racer on the road, this is truly a sport/pasttime that I love.  The only…

Scoggins Valley Road

Call it what you want, “gravel grinder”, dirt road ride, multi-surface exploring, I just call it a bike ride.  If 2014 was the year of the fat bike, 2015 seems to be the year of the “gravel grinder” bike.  Honestly I don’t like that term.  I prefer anyroad, which has probably been trademarked by Giant,…

Not What I Intended

So, I had a whole logging road route planned out for today, it had the potential to be quite epic.  HOWEVER, I screwed up and didn’t write down the name of one of the roads I wanted to turn onto from Scoggins Valley Road.  I knew all the logging roads, wrote down the mileage to…

Hello 2015

Mia and I welcomed 2015 in glorious fashion.  I was in bed by 9:45 and asleep by 10:15!  In other words it was pretty quiet.  I had been up since 5AM, worked a full day and was pretty pooped out by the time 9pm hit. We both pretty much loafed around on Thursday, watched some…