Terry and I are on holiday break or winter break or whatever its supposed to be called these days. A little time away from school is nice. But we have stayed incredibly busy. Terry’s parents visited from Cheyenne, Wyoming, so we did the whirl-wind tour of the central Cali coast. Here’s the quick summary. First…
Yearly Archives: 2008
I know, I know, no bloggy for awhile. We’ve had visitors and bike races and trips to the aquarium and photo outings and snow-filled trips to Yosemite. But soon we’ll get everyone caught up on our ever-so-exciting lives. In the meantime, enjoy the photo above from Yosemite, taken the day after Christmas which also happened…
I’ve been a huge fan of Sheila Moon‘s awesome cycling apparel ever since I got my first pair of her arm warmers last summer. I love my arm warmers, my fleece that I still cry about losing, my knickers, and my racer shimmel that I wear to yoga. A few weeks back she had a…
This year my grandpa was presented with a good opportunity to sell his farm. So he did. And with that, a lifetime of accumulated stuff had to be sorted, sold, given away, hauled off, or thrown out. In true Boyer pack rat fashion, he had a lot of stuff that had to go somewhere as…
Mondays always have been and always will be rest days. In college we never had soccer practice on Mondays. When I was in my crazy distance runner phase, Monday was either nothing or, at most, a 2-mile jog. And now that I’m doing this cycling thing, Monday is a day for catching up on homework…
Sunday saw my sister and I both doing a little cyclocross racing, though in very different conditions. Kristen raced with the C Women at JingleCross Rock, which also happened to be a UCI C2 race in Iowa City. Meanwhile I got my first taste of racing at Golden Gate Park in the Pilarcitos/Bay Area Super…
Oh my. It was hard, it was fast, it was full of suffering. I’d been doing a fairly good job of keeping my fabulously scary ‘cross suffer face hidden far away until the end of today’s race. Then it came screaming back in full force on the final sprint. But we’ll save that bit for…