Off Season
What have I done since wrapping up the Onion Slam? Not much in the way of running. I rode a brakeless fixed gear bike around a velodrome for the first time. Skinny teens were way faster than me, as expected. I went to a conference in Washington. The setting was beautiful. I caught a cold on the plane, however, so the next weekend I did not participate in my favorite race of the year, the Euchre Bar Massacre. My friend Caveman completed the 50-mile version of the race (only the second finisher in three years) despite suffering a nasty arm wound in a fall. Read his report here . (Scott Martin, "Massacring the Massacre?!") Then I went to Florida and suffered in the field with gf. I'm the only unpaid person who has been willing to go to her research site more than once. Don't be fooled by the pretty photos. The camera only comes out when you're in a good mood; it's actually quite hellish. The only way in which Florida is better than ...