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I haven’t been having the best luck with cycling lately. On the last few long rides I have taken, I’ve run into mechanical difficulty; most recently, two flat tires on a 75-miler, which I had to cut short to 52. Today was the Cider Mill Century. I have been looking forward to this 100-mile ride [...]

So yesterday I rode my favorite big group ride of the year, the Octoginta, an 80-miler which starts and ends in Lawrence, KS. It was a near perfect day for a ride, with temps in the high 70′s, and despite a pretty strong wind from the south, I finished in 4 hrs and 20 min. [...]

I find eating some dairy products, especially yogurt and mushy ice cream, to be more enjoyable with a plastic spoon. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the occasional metal taste you get with real utensils that sometimes seems more pronounced when eating dairy. We have a nice collection of plastic spoons that were [...]