Some of my blogging friends are beginning to bike commute to work again. Some ride year round, some don’t. I took me a few years to begin year round bike commuting and I did is sparingly in the winter. Once the weather broke the miles added up seemingly exponentially. Riding my bike was the best part of my work day.
Ten Years and two blogs ago. March 31 2006, riding my entry level Giant OCR 3 Road bike dual mode commute to work. Drive 30 miles. Ride 10 miles.
We owned a Luncheonette just outside the gate of an army base and it was also the end of the line for the public buses. In the 40’s and 50’s at around 11:30 PM, my parents would begin cooking and wrapping hamburgers in wax paper. Soon the buses filled with soldiers would arrive and after drinking too much, they would stop into our place and order hamburgers. Four, five, six at a time. They were drunk and in a hurry to get back on base before the midnight curfew. You could say, we were one of the first fast food burger joints. Being the industrious sort, my father also had a couple of spare bedrooms upstairs and hired really good looking waitresses, if you get my drift. In the 40’s and 50’s my family was pretty well off. Continue reading “That Was Then”→
It was a chilly and windy ride into the city for Yoga. The yoga leader decided to do core work this evening. It hurt soooo good.
Although the ride to the city was chilly, the ride home was very cool. A full moon, clear sky and the wind at my back made the ride home a joy. I tried taking a few shots of church steeples with the full moon and sky as a backdrop but I could not hold still enough to take a night shot. I only got one. One of the others is the old Vocational school built with the design of a manufacturing mill. They certainly had different ideas about education back then.
It might be an unlikely place to find such a large ensemble, but turns out Gilda’s Stone Rooster on the Marion/Wareham line is one of the best places to play.
Musicians from the Southcoast Jazz Orchestra, which makes regular appearances at Gilda’s on 27 Wareham Road in Marion, say they can feel the difference when they perform there.
“You can hear every single instrument in here with the low ceiling and carpeted floors,” Marcus Monteiro, a teacher at Music of the Bay in Wareham and leader of his own four-piece quartet, Monteirobots, said.
It might be an unlikely place to find such a large ensemble, but turns out Gilda’s Stone Rooster on the Marion/Wareham line is one of the best places to play.
The SJO, started in 2009 by trumpeter Bob Williamson and drummer Neil Sylvia, is a traditional 17-member jazz band with trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a rhythm section.
Brandon is a member of the newest racing team in Austin. Tilt Racing. He has come a long way from that youngster who had a difficult time riding the NYC Five Boroughs Tour in 2008.
October in Austin is a great time and with free room and board, it’s also a wonderful vacation spot.
Brandon in the peloton during the Driveway Series Race in Austin.
Today’s assignment is Water. Take a photo of water and write about it.
What better way to do so than riding my bike along the East Bay in Providence, RI.
Harmony I’m a day late for the photography 101 posting so I decided to create Home and Harmony. The crocus are in full bloom making a nice contrast to my house.
Even the crokies came out it was so nice.
Let me clear the air about winter riding. When it was cold and there was snow and ice, I was determined to get out and ride. I bought studded tires, rode on them three times and praised their suitability for winter conditions. I lied. I don’t like winter riding on ice and snow. I don’t dislike it either. It’s just something I do. After riding a few days in relatively nice weather I can honestly say that winter biking kind of sucks. But I still do it. Continue reading “Getting Fit”→
We are now a team of seven riding the NYC Five Boroughs Tour on May 1st. The registration closed at 32,000 riders, but if your registered and want to meet some new people on Saturday and take the option of riding with us on Sunday, you can still join our team. Go to your “manage registration” page at ImAthlete and join amidnightrider.com team. As a warm up to the tour, you may also want to join us on the Boston Midnight Marathon bike ride on Sunday April 16th. Continue reading “NYC Five Boroughs Team”→
The Daily Post Asks. “If you could slow down an action that usually zooms by, or speed up an event that normally drags on, which would you choose, and why?”
When you wait for hours for the race to come to you and it’s gone by in a matter of seconds, you often wish you could hit a button and slow them down just till they pass you. Then let go of the button and they resume at speed.
A Midnight Rider 