4 Rochester

See RocBike for a full ride report of my 45-miler. And my flickr set of the ride is here . Here are my favorite pictures from the day, a swan on the nest protected by its mate and a family of Canada geese Remember that quote about a young man's fancy turning to thoughts of love in spring? Same for...

I completed my 45-mile bike ride today (and none too soon, as tomorrow is my birthday!). I covered terrain from Rochester to Lake Ontario, back to Rochester, to Perinton, and BACK home to Rochester. It felt great...complete ride report to follow.

(Cross-posted at RocBike ). After a powerful Earth Day sermon that echoed many of the themes in Michael Pollan's recent call to each individual to do something about climate change, and included a mention of the Rochester Chicken Club (of which I am a proud member--more on that topic to come), I...

Read all about it at RocBike.

Radical Cross-Stitch tagged me for a meme. Does it sound like I'm speaking a foreign language? If you don't know, memes are kinda like chain letters. I always hated chain letters, but memes can be fun. You learn something new about people whose blogs you read, and you get to direct people to...

Tulips from the Public Market. Not only beautiful, but fragrant as well. Makes the whole house smell amazing. High-schoolers on the Genesee River. Crew teams doing their thing. College students with frisbees. While the fire alarm, undoubtedly pulled as a prank, blares from one of the fraternity houses...

...is that they will ask you if you actually accomplished them. I told colleagues, friends, kids, Team RocBike that I was planning to do my 45 mile bike ride over Thanksgiving weekend. All week, I've been watching the weather forecast, so that I could go on a relatively warm and dry day. Today was...

(Cross-posted at RocBike , because some days I just can't decide between the two!) On the RocBike podcasts, Jason refers to me as the "knitting cyclist." Actually, I should write that as the "Knitting cyclist." Note the capital "K." There are knitters who knit more than...

(Cross-posted at RocBike) --Biking with others makes you feel more empowered on the road and gets you more respect from drivers. Here's Team RocBike (and friend Liz Henderson) after our Saturday morning ride to Rochester's Public Market. --Wind Chill isn't just a stat that the TV meteorologists...

(Cross-posted at Rocbike) I’ve been cycling off and on since forever, but when I started working within two miles of my home, two years ago, I began to bike more frequently. It seemed ridiculous to get in my car and contribute to the melting ice caps, all to go a distance that I could get to just as...