You know when you end up walking behind a couple, and they’re holding hands and cooing to each other and giggling and also blocking the entire sidewalk? And then you try to either walk past them or slow down so you’re not overhearing them murmuring cutesy things to each other but it winds up just [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2009
beating bikes
August 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · general stuff, hanging out, training
School’s officially starting on Monday I use the term “starting” loosely, because I’ve been going to school almost every day this week. Mostly to hunch over a computer, hand poised over my mouse, cite-checking and making sure things are in correct Bluebook form. At least I’m not alone, though. A journal mate occupying the desk [...]
keirin diet
August 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · food
The first time I saw a pair of rollers under someone, I was too interested in horses to remember much of it. It was on a Japanese TV show featuring an array of late teens and twenty-somethings who were venturing out into interesting careers. A jockey and a keirin racer were featured together; and having [...]
rolling addiction
August 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · general stuff, training
Despite a calf that’s wound up so tight my heel actually hurts, I’m pushing, thrusting, alternatively gritting my teeth and biting my lower lip. Eyes closed, head tilted back, hissing in air and letting it out in trembling exhalations. Moving my hips just a little bit to the left, a little forward…right there. Right right [...]
Tags:addict·embrocation cycling journal·pain·perfection·rollers·sweaty
summer lovin'
August 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments · general stuff, hanging out
They say summers aren’t complete without a kind of [briefly ridiculous] love. Preferably one with a partner that would otherwise be unattainable/unrealistic/undateable. Because for three hot months, you can just ignore the glaring signs that things will fizzle out come September. It’s summer. Time to make some embarrassing forgettable choices! To be honest, this whole [...]
hot seat
August 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments · embrocation cycling journal
It’s Embrocation Cycling Journal Monday. You know where to go.
ten points
August 21st, 2009 · 7 Comments · reviews, things in print
Even as a Cancer, my maternal instincts are limited to the point of being nonexistent. Sure, I’m about to reach that age where my biological clock starts going “ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!!!!!!1111” and I’ll want to bone everything that moves, but the fact remains: children simply terrify me. Add to that the fact that [...]
Tags:bicycling magazine·bike mom·bill strickland·books·ten points
locking it down
August 20th, 2009 · 11 Comments · general stuff
It’s hot out. And apparently this heat is making people do some crazy things. Discuss.
Tags:boston·discussion·hot·lock up
ice ice baby
August 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
These past few days, I’ve been feeling consistently moist. And yes, it feels as disgusting as that sentence sounds. Because it’s been 95 degrees out lately. Yeah, that’s right. 95 motherfuckin degrees. Seriously, this weather is not joking around. I’m sweating just sitting in my apartment, motionless. Going outside means being instantly swaddled in a [...]
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undeniably superb
August 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · bike shops, hanging out, style
My love of bike shops is no secret; I’ll stubbornly stand in cleats around bike stands, even with a knee that’s throbbing and begging me to sit down, to kill time with the best mechanics around, whether in NYC or Boston. I never thought, though, that I’d have the opportunity to watch a new bike [...]
Tags:awesome·cambridge bicycle·chandeliers·concept shop·steel·superb bicycle