Friday was the last of the Bike to Work Challenge, which tries to extend the Bike To Work Day beyond a day. We fielded four teams from work. There were ten on my team, only seven rode during any given week. Although the final rankings won’t be posted for a few weeks, my team did […]
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Since the job market is pretty tepid, I’ve offered to help folks find positions. For a while, I was maintaining a job bulletin board, posting positions I’d come across and trying to match people up. I discovered two things.
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For the last few weeks I’ve been doing the Bike To Work Challenge with a group of coworkers, thus most of my riding has been the commute during the week. Tour de Blast is coming up in a soon and I needed to get some hill climbing in. Thus, I did my first non-commute ride
I went to a public hearing this evening discussing the proposals being evaluated for the I-90 floating bridge. This was my first public hearing, and I was expecting fiery rhetoric. Instead, I saw volumes of analysis done and thoughtful people available to explain, to mere mortals, the nuances of a pretty complex issue. Here are
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Monday was an absolutely gorgeous day to ride… except that I’ve started a low carbohydrate (Atkins) diet. If you bike at all, you know what happened… But first, some background. I have to maintain a medical for the FAA, I alternate between the FAA doctor and my real doctor. The FAA Class II medical (physical)
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The Camano Climb, in its seventh year, is sponsored by the Stanwood-Camano Kiwanis. The route is a 50 mile loop on Camano Island, about an hour north of Seattle. I found out about the ride from a flyer in the Cascade Bicycle Club newsletter.
Sunday’s ride was the fastest I’ve ridden in about 12 years. I tried bike-commuting on Tuesday and reduced my morning commute time to just over 1:30, which is about 1/2 hour less than when I started a year ago. Coming home, my knees started to hurt and for most of the week, they’ve been very
One reason I love living here in the northwest is the abundance of bike lanes, bike trails, and people who are generally okay with cyclists. It’s a huge improvement over what we had in the city of Houston, though I do miss the Houston Bicycle Club’s categorization system. One-way distance is just under 19 miles,
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