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Disabled List
2011 has been a bad year for me in the injury department. A couple of Saturdays ago, I messed up my ankle during a home improvement project (I should know better by now — it’s physically impossible for me to get through any home improvement project without some kind of injury. Maybe that’s why I’m…
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Today’s temperature: 60°F
OK.. Wishful thinking. This is summer in Maryland, so 60°C is probably more like it. But I keep a log of all my bike commutes, and as part of that, I always record the ride-time temperature. After this past Friday’s ride, my average ride-time temperature topped 60°F for the first time in 2011. It seems…
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Planet Bike FTW
Well, it happened. I rode my fender-less road bike to work today, and now it’s raining. So much for my theory that “30% chance of storms after 3:00” means it isn’t going to rain near Baltimore until evening. I have a set of Planet Bike “SpeedEZ” fenders for this bike, because full fenders don’t really…
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8000 Miles
I hit 8000 miles on my road bike at the beginning of yesterday afternoon’s ride. I was coasting down through the UMBC campus in the 92-degree heat, on my way to Poplar Ave. That’s part of my usual strategy for beating the heat on hot summer afternoons. The two keys are: take it easy, and…