Monthly Archives: January 2006

Well, my back problems are now over, although my coach (who is also a physical therapist and a personal trainer) has given me some exercises to make sure it recovers well. He’s also suggested ways of treating the scar tissue that my orthopedist told me was untreatable–will try that and see how it goes. It [...]

I would like to take a moment and point you at two AIDS Lifecycle rider homepages: Bill Delaney’s “Why I Ride”J.R.’s homepage (J.R. is Bill’s partner, and is HIV+) Stories like this are what keeps me riding. AIDS is not over–I have friends who would be dead today if not for the services of the [...]

Well, I did another four hours of riding this weekend–two hours on a trainer, two hours out on the road. I did NOT enjoy either ride…the hours on a trainer are unbelievably boring, and I just didn’t have much energy for the two-hour ride the next day. On top of that, I was coming down [...]

Mushroom hunting, as it happens, didn’t happen—got rained out. Instead, I puttered around the house and ran minor errands—like stocking up on Power Bars and energy gels—and worked on my new pair of socks. I had a minor but embarrassing accident in the mid-afternoon—I was feeding the snakes, and Astarte had refused to eat her [...]

…he’s got me doing a bunch of exercises in the gym to build up core strength and the cycling muscles. Squats and lunges for the quads and glutes; bench presses, shoulder presses, standing rows, skull-crushers for the upper-body; back extensions and crunches for the mid-body; calf raises and deadlifts for the calves and hamstrings, and [...]