I am a creature of habit. Or at least, I strive to be. I like to unconsciously stumble to the bathroom and reach for my toothbrush with most of my brain still asleep. Have my feet lead me to my computer to turn it on while I boil water for coffee. Grab a mug from [...]
Entries Tagged as 'sweaty'
sweating changes
May 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · food, training
Tags:caliente·capo·electrolytes·master cleanse·moving·neon·nuun·pocari sweat·sweaty·vega sport
roller girl
November 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · training
If you’ve ever seen even one scene from The Paper Chase, you have a vague sense of what it’s like to be called on in a law school class. Even as a third year, the Socratic method of drilling questions eludes me. It’s like being asked to perform a waltz with cinder blocks for shoes. [...]
Tags:fan·law school·rollers·sweaty
giving chase
September 1st, 2009 · 5 Comments · general stuff, hanging out, road rides
I hate the whole concept of playing hard to get, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate a good chase. Because you want the potential significant other to match you in terms of wits, humor, and even style. And if you’re as neurotic as I am and you go so far as to check out [...]
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
lazy rain
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · general stuff, style
I don’t know what my parents were really thinking but my name is a homonym for “silkworm” in Japanese. Or maybe they weren’t really thinking. The characters are different, obviously, but it still makes for somewhat awkward introductions. Like oh, hello, my parents named me after a worm that you eventually boil in its own [...]
Tags:day off·drenched·rain·rollers·silkworm·sweaty·thunderstorms
monsoon in mass
June 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · bike shops, cambridge bicycle, food, hanging out
I firmly believe there are three kinds of sweat: the hot, dry kind of casual summer rides around town, the squeamishly humid kind that won’t ever seem to abate, and last but not least [and possibly the best], the drenching, dripping, addicting kind that can only be a product of a decent training ride. I’ve [...]
kind of special
June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · road rides, training
It’s official. It takes a special kind of person to leave the office at 5pm, change, get on a bike, and throw down some training miles. The obsessed kind of special where groups of friends heading to bars on beautiful Tuesday evenings can simply be ignored, exhaustion from a busy day at work is pushed [...]
lucky charms
May 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · general stuff, style
I’m sort of drowning in them. I keep finding them here and there, scattered in odd corners of my apartment. No, I’m not talking about the cereal. I understand I may be burned at the stake, but it’s not exactly my favorite cereal [it would take a life-changing event to wrench Life from that special [...]
Tags:international bicycle center·jersey·lucky charms·omamori·sweaty
the perfect pout
May 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments · road rides, style
I’ve been perfecting my pout lately. Not the confidently sexy one that I may or may not put on with a cute outfit and shoes that aren’t Sidis. The other one. The burning-with-envy-and-bordering-on-temper-tantrums one. The one that belongs on girlfriends trying to guilt their boyfriends into doing buying something for them. The one that belongs [...]
Tags:pout·rapha·road bikes·summer·sweaty