This past Saturday found myself and ~240 other people running, biking, and canoeing all through our great city. Well, not all through – the closest we got to uptown was Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar, but close enough.
It was the final of a 7 race series called “Racing to N’Awlins”, put on by Gulf Coast Adventure [...]
October 4th and 5th was the Louisiana MS 150 – a thousand-rider-strong bike ride for Multiple Sclerosis. Every cyclist raised at least $250, and many raised much more than that.
Prologue (up to Friday):
We (Bea and I) didn’t actually do a whole lot of training. Unless injured, I ride every day – and yes, it is [...]
Mahony’s Po-Boys on Magazine Street is sponsoring my MS150 cycling team and is having a party to support us! Team Broken Racket is riding for the Multiple Sclerosis Society in their annual 150-mile bike event on October 4-5, 2008! The ride is getting close, and we are working as hard as we can [...]
Two weeks ago, Bea was riding to work, logging in miles on the bike in prep for the MS 150.
To make a not-very-long story short, she spilled on Lee Circle and biked home. I drove her to the ER to get stitched up – while I can treat cuts and scrapes, this was a bit [...]
Bea and I have made a big commitment recently. A group of friends of ours (and ourselves) formed a team a bit back called “Broken Racket” – mostly as an excuse to get together and run/ride/paddle and do an occasional adventure race.
In October however, we’ll be participating in the Tour for the Cure – [...]
The ribbon-cutting ceremony begins in 30 minutes, and I wanted to be there, but work has done.
Anyways, New Orleans has a bike lane! I had the opportunity to use it today – it runs down St. Claude Avenue (on both sides!), and is quite spacious. Hopefully as streets are repaired, more will be added where [...]
I don’t remember when this happened, but I still think it’s funny, and wanted to share. Apparently it originally was cycling-related and had a photo, but I’m guessing I didn’t type and/or save that part.
Too bad, so sad.
me: i walked into a fire hydrant yesterday. it hurt. bad.
harley: hahaha
harley: dunbass
harley: er, nevermind
me: way to spell.
me: [...]
Most of you live ’round here, so know what yesterday’s weather was like. For the rest of you, and for posterity, it was gross. Temp in the lower 40’s, with a RealFeel in the upper 20’s, according to AccuWeather.com. Varying levels rain from misting to not-quite-downpour.
I left my office at Lee Circle and rode up [...]
Heeeellooooooo, 2008. I of course wanted to put this up yesterday, never got around to it.
Where do I start? Howsabout a rough outline of some major-ish events since my last post (that should be individual posts themselves):
Reffed the first Jackson MS / Biloxi MS derby bout
Retired from rollerderby refereedom. Am now known as Don’t Panic [...]
Truly, a question for the ages.
Bat For Lashes addresses the issue in terms of awesome:
