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Long Mini Trip
I’ve previously posted about taking a long trip on the motorcycle. I figure that the week immediately following my upcoming half-marathon would probably be the week, if any, that I could do such a thing this summer. The rest of the weeks would be full of running nonsense that would make the trip untenable. Angie,…
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Long Way Round
One of Angie’s co-workers pointed us at the DVD for Long Way Round which details Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s preparations and journey from England through Russia, down through Alaska and Canada, finally ending up in New York. For any motorcycle rider the story is simply amazing as they travel on unpaved, barely existent roads…
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Clover Coffee
This post is very overdue. Back at the beginning of March I traveled up to Seattle on business. While up there my co-worker introduced me to heaven in a cup. I don’t really know the whole story behind how it ended up at Starbucks, but it is wonderful. Unfortunately the only Clover machine that was…
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What Have I Done?
I’m afraid I did it again. I’ve registered for the Helvetia Half Marathon in June. Then in a moment of weakness (?) I registered for the Portland Marathon in October. I have to start training for the half this week. Then as I cross the finish line in June I need to start training for…
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Germanification of Vehicles
I’ve had my trusty Harley Sportster for since 2005. It’s my first motorcycle. It’s led me through good times and bad times. I remember riding out of the dealership in IL without my motorcycle endorsement, no riding glasses, no jacket. I rode the motorcycle around and around the block getting a feel for how it…
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Marathon. Done.
So after many weeks of training and exhaustion for my first marathon it is done. I chose not to write this post straight away so that I could allow the experience simmer for a little while. So before I get to the bottom line, allow me to babble on a bit. It was a cold…
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Race-cicles
So if you’ve been following my marathon journey you’ll undoubtedly be aware of the freezing temperatures (literally) facing me. To add to the bad omens I’ve managed to pick up some in between a head cold and a sinus infection. Any other race and I’d read these tea leafs as a clear sign to not…
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Pre-race Jitters
One would think that after running a couple of races that I’d be over the jitters. Even the local 5k non-timed fun run will even get the anxiety going. Knowing this I tried to head it off at the pass for the marathon. I kept telling myself and others that “it’s no big deal” and…
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Motorcycle Camping
Angie and I just finished a wonderful weekend of motorcycle camping up at Stubb Stewart State Park. It was a wonderful bear-free adventure that I’m hoping will just be one of many motorcycle camping trips. The worst part of the trip was the sleeping arrangements. We’d forgotten that we had inflateable pillows so we were…
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Running In Circles
This is the second(?) of my posts regarding my marathon training. Before I started training I had these big plans of posting each week detailing how the training had been going, blah, blah, blah. As you can see, if you care to, that didn’t only fall apart quickly, but just never started. So here I…
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