Archive for July, 2007
Each year for most of July, Chris and I put aside our varied television preferences and park ourselves in front of Le Tour for a few solid weeks. You’d never know that he wasn’t raised watching Lemond or Indurain. He watches intently each time trial and hilltop finish, all the big names roll […]
So what’s next? For the first time in a few years, nothing. While I plan to continue training through the next year, I’ll be moving my focus away from the time-intensive endurance training and working on shorter distances, hill training and speed drills. Though I look forward to longer distances in another […]
We left early Saturday morning, all of our gear packed in the car for Chris and Dillon to drive down. And with only a bit of sunlight, we headed out at about a quarter-to-five. Leaving directly from the house put us at nearly the same mileage once we met up with the STP […]
Despite a bit of a rocky start, Chris and I managed our way through quite a bit in our first few years. The baggage of old relationships. The drama of at-work romance. Layoffs, new careers, very lean times. And the very real threat of a cross-country relationship which most certainly would […]
Growing up our parents tell us that they’ll always love us. That no matter what you do, no matter how upset they may be. That they’ll still love us. And I remember vividly the point at which I finally believed them. A couple weeks from the end of my freshman year […]
It was a long flight back from Anchorage last night, sitting on the plane for nearly an hour as we waited for maintenance issues to be resolved, but as we landed in Seattle at nearly 10:30 PM Dillon skipped his way down the jet way, showing no signs of how tired he must have been. […]