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life in alameda

2012-07-04-14-19-47
okay, this was really a test image from my lightroom to wordpress plugin. now, i am ready to publish more photos directly from lightroom straight to the blog. the geek in me always get in the way first before i actually get down to the grittiness of real ‘work’, whatever that may be. case in point, i had to find the perfect meditation helper app before meditation, and i am still not doing it. speaking off, i am listening to folks electronica guy by the name of william fitzsimmons and i like […]

2015-01-01T00:00:49-08:00
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Final Training Update and reaching the summit of training

mt diablo summit

With the fund raising all done and the start of the ride is exactly one week away, i am relaxing from the most ambitious ride of my training. We did the ‘three bears’, with about 1000 ft in elevation change and then headed over to Mt Diablo for another 4000 st climb. It was billed as an 81 mile ride but i did an extra 10 miles because i got separated from the main group! By the time i was starting the climb the last 1500 ft […]

2009-05-24T09:51:00-08:00Tags: |
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my first century

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_at the start of the ride, photo by lovely wife

This past sunday, i did my first 100 mile ride and it all started with some chilly rain! I was fairly nervous to begin with never having done more than 50 odd miles in one sitting and the rain added more to the adrenaline. Luckily, the rain ended within 2-3 hours after the start and the sun did come out for the rest of the day. Everything was pretty decent until the 70th mile or so. I had my first major energy crash […]

2009-05-05T21:08:57-08:00Tags: |
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