Feet on the Ground
This week I did a handful of gentle, exploratory runs to test how the foot is healing. The runs felt great, each a little better than the last. This week’s pictures are not from any of those runs, but from a 50 miler on the San Gabriel River Bike Path, starting in the foothills of [...]
What I Think About When I Think About Riding
Today while riding I thought about what I think about while riding. It was a great example of the self referential pointlessness of most thought. A thought is a form conceived in the mind, rather than a form perceived through the five senses. Humans think a lot. 60,000 or more individual thoughts per day. [1] [...]
Coyote
I often pass coyotes up on the fireroads climbing the hills through Griffith Park. I see them most early in the mornings, when there aren’t other people around and the senses of peace and freedom are greatest. I’ve come to judge how good a ride or run is by the number of coyotes I pass. [...]
