Tag Archive for 'biking'

We did it! Thank you!

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I’d like to thank all of you who donated before December 1, 2008 for helping me raise over $1,000! Benchmark #1 has been reached! More than 1/3 of my required minimum and 21% of my personal goal of $5k! I’m so touched by your support!I said I’d give the incentive prize to whomever helped the […]

37 is my lucky number

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On Sunday, Shannon took me on the Paradise Loop in Marin. We rode from the Mission all the way thru Tiburon, around the Paradise Loop and then had Indian food in Sausalito and took the ferry home.This is the first ride that I’ve felt in my legs a few days after. Seems I’ve found my […]

I rode to work sooner than expected!

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I woke up on Thursday morning seeing the beautiful sunshine, knowing that I didn’t need to be at work until noon and I said to Shannon “wanna ride to burlingame with me today?”He was very excited and immediately got to cookin’ up his special steel cut oats with peanut butter – really sticks to the […]

WOW! Over 10% already!

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I just wanted to post a quick thank you to those of you who jumped in so quickly to support this ride of mine!I’m happily stunned to have gotten to 11% of my goal in less than 30 days!I regret to inform you all that my only training done this last weekend was to ride […]

i’m going to ride my bike 545 miles next summer!

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Ever since I moved to San Francisco and heard about this crazy bike ride from SF to LA, I’ve thought about doing it. Two years ago, I discovered that a friend of a friend, Emily, (who is now a dear friend) is the volunteer coordinator for the SF AIDS Foundation. I discovered this when I […]

First training weekend!

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On Saturday, Shannon took me to Marin for my second long ride ever and first training ride for ALC! We drove to Nicasio and then biked about 28 miles r/t to Pt. Reyes.Shanny encouraged me to leave behind my “civilian” hoodie (cotton, not cycle worthy) but I held firm and am so grateful as it […]

cycling

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Seven things I like to do while riding my bicycle: 1. give out tickets, in my head, to douchebags not doing things according to standard, ticketable, traffic laws. 2. fart – it’s the funnest place to fart – except for maybe around the campfire. 3. sing a song that goes “la la la la” 4. […]

my first time Critical Mass attendance…

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…was on the 15th anniversary! Before last night, every time Critical Mass would take to the streets, I would be otherwise engaged and would either watch from a window or not even know it was happening.Yesterday, I got finished work early and was ready to ride at 6:15 – I even got to start with […]

adrenalized

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today is really busy – lots going on at work. big deposit to make and then enter into “the system” while also entering transactions (the bookkeeping hat is my least favorite here) and these are so time and focus consuming. i also have this design competiton to process and i’m hoping that my boss has […]