It’s hard to believe it’s been three weeks. To be completely honest, I haven’t missed a thing (I kind of expected to by now). Not even the cats. (Thomas, cover Uci’s ears.) We got weather last week. A proper desert storm with rattling windows and torrential downpour and a snow level dropping to less than 4,000 feet. Miraculously, [...]

Presto change-o, alakazam! It’s true, it’s true. The Everyday Athlete is no more. What better day than the first of the year to launch the new site, right? Actually, it’s not really new. It’s just like the old site put on a really hot dress and a pair of stilettos and went to the judge to have her [...]

You heard me right. I’m eating Chia. Out of a bowl. With almond milk. Voluntarily. Chia Goodness contacted me a little over a month ago to ask if I would like to sample their new cereal and I happily agreed, remembering the hairy Chia plant characters of my youth with a fond sigh. They sent me Original, [...]

Tyler paid a visit to Portland over the weekend and spent an evening entertaining the cycling masses over at River City Bicycles. I was able to catch up with him at a reception at Madison’s Grill afterward and I am pleased to announced that I totally maintained my journalistic cool: [Ahem.] Garmin’s Tyler Farrar is a class [...]

It never occurs to me not to race. Even when the dude on the line says, “It’s four degrees out ladies!” Even when the rest of the field lets out a collective shout while I force my numb brain to try to remember if I’ve ever done anything in weather this cold. Ever. What does occur me was [...]

I just posted this to Ye Olde Cycling Diaries column over at iWend – the video follow up to my last narrative post about climbing (and descending) Mt Diablo on the day after Thanksgiving. It’s a far cry from the blue skies and screaming sun of Mt Lemmon, but came with it’s own degree of [...]