Archive for January, 2006

More on training

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Well, my back problems are now over, although my coach (who is also a physical therapist and a personal trainer) has given me some exercises to make sure it recovers well. He’s also suggested ways of treating the scar tissue that my orthopedist told me was untreatable–will try that and see how it goes. It [...]

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Why I ride

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I would like to take a moment and point you at two AIDS Lifecycle rider homepages:
Bill Delaney’s “Why I Ride”J.R.’s homepage (J.R. is Bill’s partner, and is HIV+)
Stories like this are what keeps me riding. AIDS is not over–I have friends who would be dead today if not for the services of the San Francisco [...]

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Training woes

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Well, I did another four hours of riding this weekend–two hours on a trainer, two hours out on the road. I did NOT enjoy either ride…the hours on a trainer are unbelievably boring, and I just didn’t have much energy for the two-hour ride the next day. On top of that, I was [...]

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