Ride The Heavy
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It’s 4:13am on a Saturday in August and it’s already 90 degrees. That’s a normal summer morning here. The first thing I checked wasn’t the temperature. It was the air quality. Mountain biking in extreme heat is the whole problem in Phoenix from May through October, and since March 2024 almost everything about how I […]
Nobody could tell me what it would look like. So here it is. I don’t know exactly when my heart attack started. I know it wasn’t during the ride. This is what mountain biking after bypass surgery actually looked like for me — from the parking lot at Apache Wash since March 2024, with the […]
Up at 4:43. Bathroom, get dressed, out the door for the walk, same order as every other morning. The walk is supposed to be the thing that sets the day, before the phone starts and before anybody needs anything from me. Feet moving, sun not all the way up, nothing to decide yet. I got about […]