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A walk in the rain in cool shoes.
Tuesday evening was cold like it is in November. Not cold like February, a month I didn’t know until living here for a couple of years. it is new-cold. The Fall season is undecided and like physical signs of adolescence a warning that torment and torrent are coming. It was also finally raining. I put…
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Reminder
My Legs pulse of servitudeThe dial is gripped firmly in my fingers tips. On Tuesday I left two or three clicksI’ve done a lap or twoand sat out a fewThe course has been clued. Crude.Remember to sink intooStrong and deepThe promises you made before you went to sleepremember I’ll have to think about that questionif…
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ER2ndR
The ball of anxiety building up in my stomach was smaller this year even though the size of the Cat 1 field would triple. I don’t belong here, technically, but I can’t deny my ego the possibility to feed on all the comparison-cookies it so obnoxiously wants. What is it about constantly comparing ourselves to…
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Paris Nice Stage 8
Roglic is being straight-up carried by Wout chasing one of the Twins up the Col d’Eze and Nairo, like always, is barely hanging on. No Cheat Codes Here From about thursday’s stage we understood that this climb could determine the race outcome as well as start to define how the rest of the year would…
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The second time we raced Seward Park.
“Damn, this weather turned out great. This morning I really thought it’d be colder tonight.” “Colder?”, I heard Justin say through the wind. We work our way over and then under the lower bridge, silently coast down by the fishermen – no smell tonight – back along the bike path onto the sidewalk, cross the…
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‘Bass’ Block
Leadville 2022 Prep Diary Seattle mornings are always too cold, too damp, and really really quiet. This is the perfect setting to – with my shoes still unlaced- load the barbell. Feeling that hard cold steel touch my calloused hands hurts at first but then serves to remind me that I am here and that…