Data analysis of illness
For the better part of two weeks, I’ve experienced all kinds of illness. Woke up on Tuesday, December 28th with a headache, fever and general icky feeling. Since I had spent Christmas Day among 80,000 others at Lambeau Field, and in a car with three…
At the crossroads
I’ve always taken the approach of keeping my options open and letting things present themselves to make the logical decision any given time. It generally has served me well over the many months, years and now decades of adult life. But lately I’ve been thinking…
2022 Training Week 1: Acclimation
Well, the first week of training is in the books, and it went as well as it as it could be. Monday was my first personal training session with Paul at Simple Endurance Coaching. We did all sorts of things that I don’t remember what…
Writers block
Ever have a bunch of ideas and topics to write about but can’t put the thoughts together coherently? For someone who’s head is in the clouds a lot of the time and whose mind is always moving a million miles per hour, this is a…
What’s next? Goals for 2022
“What do you have in mind for goals for next year?” That is a really good question. One that I had to think about for a while. The only goal I had set for myself for 2022 is to continue on getting faster on the…
2021 CX Season Recap
You never know where life will take you. Since February 2020, I’ve been on this long and somewhat strange journey of dropping weight and getting stronger on the bike. Add in the world’s mass formation, I pretty much had nothing better to do for most…
Starting over
What to say? Where to begin? It’s been a long time. Probably too long. Maybe not long enough. A lot can change in a day, a month, a year, five years, a decade. Years ago, I thought I had everything I thought I had wanted—a…
To the desert … and the red rocks.
Sometimes the stars align to where it’s a no-brainer for travel. Mid-December, I was ready for some adventure. Tired of the cold and dark Wisconsin winter, I logged into Southwest.com to find cheap flights. For less than $90 round-trip, I could fly from Chicago Midway…
