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
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 →
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 →
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.
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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 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 →