Month: November 2014

  • Goal update, November 2014

    It’s getting colder, and so it’s getting harder to lose weight. I tend to want to hibernate and eat when it gets cold. But I still made progress; I’m down 2 pounds and feeling pretty good. We had some very cold weather and the first snow of the year, but I kept running. Then it…


  • Two years running

    It’s an anniversary of sorts. Two years ago today I put on a cheap pair of running shoes and stepped out the door on a cold November morning. I made it just over two miles in half an hour, and I felt like I was dying. But I made it. And then I did it…


  • Bike rebuild: a 1984/2014 Trek 610/105

    In the summer of 2007, not long after I moved to Denver, I bought a used Trek 610 road bike off of Craigslist. A little research showed it was a 1984 model, with a frame of Reynolds 531 steel and a nice set of Shimano 600 (Ultegra) components. It was already 23 years old and…