You and Gus are two sleepy peas in a pod. Here’s to great friends, a cozy cottage, and long hours of dominoes.
Category Archives: Cycling
Toot toot!
(that’s my horn)
Thursday Night Training Series Results_9.4.14
I figured I’d post this since I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do so well again… Anyhow, Andy and I both had a good time at this race and I managed to roughly quadruple my points total as a result! I’m not going to think too hard about whether that was a result of me getting better, or just due to the absence of some of the other strong(er) riders that normally get a lot of points 🙂
Moving Weekend
Molly says that the best part of having a boyfriend is that they can help you move. I would have to say that you outdid yourself in that way this weekend. I owe you 17 big hills in our future bike rides (Since you love hard, physical work so much)! Thanks for not only moving my stuff, but also Tori’s and Ashley’s. There’s something women like about a pick-up man, and Joe Diffie, I think I know what it is…
Even though we didn’t get to do the full bike ride, I enjoyed going out to Lexington for breakfast with you on Monday 🙂 <3
Bikepacking – Misquamicut Route
Instead of being conservative for our first-ever touring trip, we went all-in with a very aggressive route. We wanted to do something fun, and our first thought was a day on the beach – so we decided to ride to/from Misquamicut State Beach in Westerly, RI. To break up the ride and allow ourselves as much time at the beach as possible on Saturday, we reserved a campsite at Wilderness Lake Campground in Willington, CT for Friday night. The original plan was to leave Hartland around 2pm, but we were late – partly due to work that day, but also because it took us much longer than anticipated to pack everything (and worrying that we were forgetting something). Once we were finally ready to leave the house at 4pm, we weighed our bikes… mine was roughly 83lbs and Rachel’s was 70lbs… next time we’ll distribute the weight more fairly (good for Rachel, bad for me).
Day 1: West Hartland, CT to Willington, CT (~55 miles)
4pm-9:30pm, 30 min rest – 5 hrs riding
