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  • Get Up, Get Up, Get On It

    Do you feel that? It’s a lull. It’s a big-assed lull. It’s like the holidays hit and then passed and then dried up and now we’re here with this wind and that flooding. I wake up in the middle of the night and there is a bar room brawl in the tree branches above me. Violent. This...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-07-2009

  • The Cyclist Returns to Boot Camp

    I spent most of 2007 waking up between 4:30 and 5:10am and heading off to Portland Adventure Bootcamp. I’d found the program by doing an internet search after hearing about the concept from a midwestern cyclocrosser. When I went that January, I was at the end of my rope. I was working 70-80 hours...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-01-2008

  • Blinding White Joy.

    Summer morning.  Chilly track. "Natalie!  My hands are numb!" "Mine too!" Mittens in August? Heading into the third turn of the second 800 meter interval the sun powers over the top of the building to our east.  Blinding, white, glowing. We’re overexposed and unbalanced...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Coming Clean. Coming Around.

    It’s August 21st.  I’ll be 31 in two days. In general, I feel like about seventy million bucks. But this month has been hard for me. It’s "Christmas season" for my biggest client (read: long hours making marketing for people), it’s a big month for event for photography...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008

  • Feeling Good Never Felt So Good

    On Saturday I got back on the bike for real.  I went out with a teammate to go long and slow.  Long and steady.  My training doesn’t usually call for LSD, so I was looking forward to ignoring the HR monitor and just riding. I wanted to learn a new route, so I called on the [...]
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-03-2008

  • Making Up for Lost Time: The Catch Up Post

    The sun came out.  Portland stretched and yawned and shielded her eyes. The bike called, so I came. On Thursday Sal and I hit the road together for the first time in a long while.  We took an old familiar route south to Oregon City, around Lake Oswego, back to Terwilliger and home.  The...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-17-2008

  • Pulling Head Out of Sand: Outlook Bright!

    Last week was a challenge. It was one of those weeks where everything bad that can happen seems to be taking its turn.  The furnace breaks and it goes on from there.   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Feverydayathleteblog.com%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2Fpulling-head-out-of-sand-outlook-bright%2F';...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-11-2008

  • Just Numbers.

    Sal comes home.  He has been gone ten days. Ten days. His trips do not usually keep him for that length of time. In his absence I become a strange creature.  A bachelor of sorts, hobbling together meals that would never otherwise pass for meals, leaving dishes in the sink. Today is the usual...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-31-2008

  • Yoga for the Non-Yogi

    Tony Horton is many things, but a yogi he is not.  (Aside: Tony Horton is the guy behind P90X, the program I am doing right now.) As I’m watching his impressive legs move in his little tight yoga pants, I’m thinking more about the fact that he looks like a kid who is ready to watch Saturday...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-08-2008

  • Going Dry: Giving Up the Bottle

    Ask anyone who knows me, and they’ll tell you that I like my beer.  Specifically, I like it dark and strong.  When I moved to Portland, it was like moving to the beer-lover’s wonderland.  This place is wall to wall with absolutely stunning brews. In San Francisco, I was more...
    Posted to The Everyday Athlete (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-06-2008
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