Cycling 2021

A start to another unusual year of cycling for me. Still no velodrome locally, other kinds of bike racing is happening more virtually than in a group setting, although that is slowly changing. For now the early season is filled with daily coaching plans from my coach in Glasgow, Robert Ferguson, Zoom trainer rides hosted […]

I Challenge You…

To question the basis of your entire education. Propaganda I learned at an early age was the work of political machines trying to undermine and destroy the republic, USA, we live in and we would give anything to uphold. What we didn’t learn was that propaganda was the insidious adjustment to the knowledge we were […]

2020 ending as we scream for something new and good

Reflection seems to be the norm for year end musings. 2020 maybe more so than past years. Not generally something I’ve done in the past. Being the generally positive, looking to the future kind of person I am, normally I spend a little time on the past and then start to look to the future. […]

Thought for today

Find your passion and it will return to you the passion to learn

Return to Sailing in 2019

2019, early spring, only a few months after my official retirement from an auto service business that lasted 38 plus years. I’m back to rediscovering what I enjoyed about sailing in the early 80’s. Then, I had just started my auto service business and was just getting interested in cycling, but sailing was taking a […]

Friday mast down day in Afton 10.2.20

Go to the menu on the right and look for the page about Friday at Afton for a story about my Afton day. Not the most exciting day of the journey up the river but necessary. Part of the reason for this river trip is not only to get to a closer to home winter […]

Sailing, fall trip to winter the boat 9.29.20

Tuesday, 9.29.20, was the start of my planned boat trip from Pepin Marina in Pepin Wi to Watergate Marina in St Paul via Afton MN on the St Criox to use the gin pole there and get my mast down for the winter. I’ve been adding daily details in the MENU area to the right […]

Instead of Manchester 2020

Just realizing that under normal circumstances next week I would be in Manchester UK for my 11th World Masters Track Championships events. It’s 2020, I shouldn’t have to explain the reason I’m not there. Like most, I’m trying to find a new way to find value and purpose in life when things are so unreasonably not […]

A Story, a search, fall of 2020

A story my coach asked for, careful what you ask for My first memory of a bike experience was when I was quite young, maybe not even 10 years old. Youngest of three brothers in the family, we had one bike. It as a classic old chrome fendered 3 speed Schwinn that was bought probably […]