Who is the man who has most encouraged your biking?
Vest, “The Elevator” helps Leslie up a hill on her first Reach the Beach bike event.
As a women’s group we celebrate the amazing things that happen when Continue reading
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Ireland by Bike: Day 3 – High Nellies!
No boring stats today. You will find our new friends, Chris and John, along with their “High Nellies” and advice for bicyclists much more interesting. With their permission I am sharing photos and video from our visit at the Meiteal Cafe in Dunlavin, a village in County Wicklow with a library at its center.
Michael and I were in search of Continue reading
Spring has its Price: Rain
Some days you don’t see it coming. Some days it looms ominous but yields only grayness. And some days it reigns over your best-laid plans. Rain: drizzly, shower-y, intermittently, steady or downright heavy; in any form – we love it and we hate it. As a cyclist, I do my best to avoid it.
photograph by Rohith Gunawardena
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do Hills Scare You?
Northern California was my playground last week. The Siskiyou Mountains, to be more specific. Pedaling up hills and whizzing down them was how I spent most days during “The California Bike Ride”, a seven-day bike tour hosted by Bicycle Rides Northwest. Together with 300 other cyclists, my husband and I biked over 400 miles and climbed over 24,000 feet (total elevation gain). And guess what? The group’s median age was Continue reading
Encouragement from the Ranks
BoB’ers offer their encouragement
Encouragement can be a powerful force in one’s learning experience, increasing self-confidence and willingness to step out of the proverbial oh-so-comfortable zone. While adults bring a wealth of life skills and experience to a learning opportunity (evidence they are quite capable of learning something new), learning can still be a scary proposition. Self-doubt and anxieties of various sorts can wreak havoc in the mind of even the most determined learner. Will I look foolish? What if I make a mistake? Can I keep up with the others? … We think and re-think all that could go wrong and possibly lead to an embarrassing and unpleasant outcome. Continue reading
