Not only did I just send out a rambling email updating the handful of interested individuals (to varying degrees) in joining me for all or part of my Sunset Boulevard walk February 10, but I whipped up a commemorative t-shirt, too:
Perusing the inside of today’s Times I found this article about how smoking addiction can sometimes just disappear. The piece goes on to document how a USC/University of Iowa study linked injuries sustained to a specific area of the brain called the insula (which apparently holds sway over urges such as smoking) with the immediate …
Seeing as I have to average 167.5 miles a month to make this year’s target, I’m off to a bit of a slow start. But getting back in the saddle with Friday’s night c-c-c-cold 33.5-mile ride up through northeast L.A. to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl and back, I finally kicked off my resolution to bike 2,007 …
Seeing as my parting gift from the temp gig I had for the last couple weeks was a bug from whoever that started off as a sinus infection a few days ago but yesterday pretty much blew up into a full-on headcold (that 28-mile megaloop ride Saturday probably didn’t help) it will probably be a …
My friend and biking bud Steve today sent me a pic he snapped of me hoisting a thirsty-two ouncer of Kirin at Joy Mart in Little Tokyo after our regular Thursday night bike ride: And dang was it good to the last drop. By way of catching up, here are links to photo sets and …
*With apologies to Roy Scheider’s Capt. Brody I’ve been dicking around with my diet these last few weeks since getting back from vacation. I haven’t been logging my calories or sticking to anything too strictly. It’s not that I’ve been over eating so much as a bit lax in my habits. And as a result …
Sure I had other pre-trip things that were more important to do, but I didn’t let that stop me from joining my fellow IAAL•MAF’ers on last night’s river ride, which by the time I returned home left my bike’s odometer showing 708.8 miles and whose last bit of physical exertion (despite that Foster’s Freeze cone …