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Epic NorCal Road Ride - Day 1
IntroductionEvery couple of years, my friend Peter and I get together for an epic road ride, usually in the Boulder, Colorado area. We’ll never live up to the best ride we did, which was 200 miles long...
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Epic NorCal Road Ride - Day 2
IntroductionThis post is a sequel. For best results, start here with Part One, or you’ll be a bit lost, though no more than with all those stupid Marvel movies. If you’re the kind of big shot who...
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From the Archives - National Championships Team Time Trial
IntroductionI just finished watching the Tour de France team time trial. What an awesome event. As a tribute to this underrated cycling discipline, I offer this story from my archives.(I originally...
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Ride Report - 2019 Markleeville Death Ride with Teenager
IntroductionI used to ride the Markleeville Death Ride every year, until the registration process became too cumbersome and I started racing the Everest Challenge instead. This year, I was pleasantly...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2019 Tour de France Stage 14
IntroductionWhen guys sit around watching sports, they tend to talk a lot of smack. (Do women also sit around watching sports? I suppose it’s possible, like those new elements scientists have...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2019 Tour de France Stage 19
IntroductionWhen it comes to bike race reporting, I don’t pull punches. In fact, I take wild swings like a drunk. That’s both the benefit of, and cause of, being a mere blogger. If you crave...
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From the Archives - Riding La Marmotte - Part I
Introduction Since 2003, I’ve been an occasional contributor to the Daily Peloton. A few years ago, my stories there vanished due to server problems, and then the magazine went offline altogether....
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From the Archives - Riding La Marmotte - Part II
Introduction This is the second part of the heart-wrenching (for me) tale of racing La Marmotte, a 108-mile cyclosportive race in the French Alps I did in 2003. For the first half, click here. La...
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Will Self-Compassion Make You a Wuss?
IntroductionRecently, my wife had me read a short article about self-compassion. Two things about this I found interesting: 1) the article, and 2) the fact of my wife’s recommending it. Obviously she...
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How To Report Your Bicycle Accident
IntroductionThis post describes best practices for reporting your bicycle crash to your family. (This is not an emergency response protocol; that’s another matter entirely.)Before we beginIn no way do...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow: 2019 Vuelta a España Stage 9
IntroductionBike racing has been more fun to watch lately, due to Team Ineos (formerly Team Sky) being less dominant. I wouldn’t say no other team dopes, but I will say no other team does it so well as...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2019 Vuelta a España Stage 13
IntroductionI like to watch bike races, ideally in person, but usually online. Watching with friends is best, so we can make snotty comments to one another as do all sports fans everywhere, but I...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2019 Vuelta a España Stage 20
IntroductionDo cycling fans get together in sports bars at 6:30 a.m. to hoot and holler and throw popcorn at the screen during a live broadcast? Alas, no. I try to make my biased blow-by-blow reports...
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From the Archives - Journal for my Daughter
Introduction A few days before my first daughter was born, I started keeping a journal about her life. This was inspired by those baby books, where you put in footprints, stats about size and weight at...
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Biased Blow-By-Blow - 2019 World Championship Road Race
IntroductionBicycle races can be fun to watch. Sometimes, though, it’s like the Super Bowl … super boring because it’s a blowout. In cycling, this generally happens when one team (usually Ineos)...
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Homemade Macaroni & Cheese
IntroductionSometimes you just need some starch. Whether you’ve had a hard workout or a hard day, nothing really satisfies like a giant plate of pasta. Sure, there are sophisticated ways of serving it,...
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Ask a College Dad
Dear College Dad,When my wife and I dropped off our daughter at college, everyone in the family had been wagering on who would cry the most. Oddly, nobody cried, not even my daughter. I thought her...
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From the Archives - How To Be a Demon Roommate from Hell
IntroductionWhen I was a student at UC Santa Barbara, I routinely wrote little essays and stories that I’d photocopy and mail to family and friends … kind of like this blog, but obviously long before...
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Stop Pushing STEM!
IntroductionFrom time to time in these pages, I’ve scoffed at the idea that American students need to focus more on STEM. It’s time I tackled this topic head-on.The rhetoricPerhaps I don’t even need to...
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Election Follies II - California Prop 7, One Year Later
IntroductionWell, yesterday’s election was sure dull. My city and county didn’t have anything on the ballot so it was a non-event. But that’s how I like it … I detest politics. I’m not one to discuss...
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