Buried by Heather

And the winner is….
I know we still have a day left, but it’s safe to say Heather has reigned victorious in out little bet. As it stands this evening, she is at 2093 miles and I am at a respectable 2036 miles. At least I broke 2000, something I wasn’t planning on or thinking about [...]

What I learned on my ride today

You should never try to “save time” by not switching your bike lights out. The weather has been decent the last few days, and temps have been warm enough to melt a lot of the snow off the roads. So, I decided to take the Specialized Allez out for one last spin in 2008. My [...]

The post ride snack

One of the best things about riding? The post ride snack, especially if it consists of the General’s homemade guacamole, tortilla chips, and a Sam Adams Cream Stout. Trust me on this one. I tried to get a picture of the guacamole, but the lighting was bad or I’m just not good at food photography. [...]

A lap around town is…

Twelve miles and some change. I stopped by the local bike shop while out and about, of course, and a woman commented that I was a brave soul for riding my bike at night in the fog. I think she really wanted to say I was crazy, but she was too polite. She was dropping [...]

Photo biking Hawley

The General and I headed through Hawley yesterday on our way to the Berkshires to visit her side of the family. The river was running from all the snow and then warm temps, so I figured I would come out and explore today. I brought the bike with me because there would have been no [...]

Santa Delivers

I must have been a good girl this year because I got that rockin’ Louis Garneau Exo-Nerve helmet I’ve had my eye on.  Thanks Mom.  Plus, my little brother got me some great winter gloves by Terry–a gift I wasn’t expecting from him but definitely needed.  No more glove liners under cycling gloves–these will be [...]

Tooling around town

The best laid plans by someone without my attention span can sometimes go awry, so I wasn’t really surprised when I did not make it to the grocery store while out on the bike this afternoon. I made it to the library (two more William Tapply mysteries) and the local bike shop to let them [...]

Expansion of Biking in Parks is Proposed

Check out the article in the New York Times

Snow day

The roads are worse today than they were yesterday, but I wanted to ride my bike. I headed out to see what I could do to keep myself out of the way of any sliding metal behemoths. There is a small ball field in my neighborhood not far from my residence. The town plows around [...]

It’s that time of year again

Back when the weather started getting warm enough for Karen to ride outside, my friend Ellen said I should start signing my posts so there would be no confusion regarding who wrote it. Now that we are in the season that consists of snow, ice, and temps in the 20s, it is safe to say [...]