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How to Bike Dad 101
Posted in: NarrativeAfter posting a photo on Instagram from after a ride this morning I had a buddy PM me: “Dude. Explain to me how you are able to ride every damned day and post this spectacular shit to Facebook all the time with a mitt full of kids and a full time job??? Send me the…
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My Summer Riding Season Opens with a Giant Bang
Managed to slam in 3 consecutive days of fantastic riding with great peeps to open the summer season. Saturday I led my usual Radical Edge Donut Roll Beginner Road ride. I only had one rider this week, and Mike’s not exactly beginner, so heading out bright and early at 8, we beat the heat and…
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The Escape Machine
Today when lunch rolled around and I’d had my fill of corporate buzzwords, ‘make the logo bigger/bluer’ and flipping through 1,038 internet channels of everyone riding bikes across Estonia other than me, I did what I often do: I had a minor internal freakout, asked myself how I got here and what the hell I’m…
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Turn the Page: Eulogy for a Journal
Posted in: Narrative13 Years. That’s a lot of page turning. It’s a worn out cliché, but it’s worn out because it’s good. If you’re going to ask, I prefer the original Bob Seger version to Metallica’s cover, but to each his own. For the past 25+ years I’ve been journalling on and off with various levels of…
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Don’t Let Anything Stop You From Getting Out
Since the beginning of the year, for a myriad of reasons, most days I’ve been trudging out to my unheated garage and pounding through an hour on the bike trainer. It’s been a good experience, I’m learning a lot about myself and making progress. It ain’t riding outside though. Yesterday after watching yet another internet…
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Poets of Instagram
I’ve really grown to love Instagram as a social media platform, it’s become one of my favourite places to visit online. It’s currently the only social media app I have on my phone. I enjoy the nature of it – the fact that it’s primarily visual. I’m pretty selective with who I follow and for…