Comments for Strange, But True! http://boomboombike.com/blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Lately by Bill Russell http://boomboombike.com/blog/2012/02/05/lately/#comment-109 Bill Russell Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:32:06 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2750#comment-109 One nice thing about the new training program I'm following is the inclusion of 1-2 recovery rides/week. In the past I scoffed at such frippery, thinking that they were a waste of precious time. But I was missing an important element buried inside the "recovery ride" moniker: joy. I noodle along, singing aloud, happily weaving a path of simple pleasure. This, more than anything else, has brought me back from the doldrums of over-intensity invoked burn-out. One nice thing about the new training program I’m following is the inclusion of 1-2 recovery rides/week. In the past I scoffed at such frippery, thinking that they were a waste of precious time. But I was missing an important element buried inside the “recovery ride” moniker: joy. I noodle along, singing aloud, happily weaving a path of simple pleasure. This, more than anything else, has brought me back from the doldrums of over-intensity invoked burn-out.

]]> Comment on Lately by tim http://boomboombike.com/blog/2012/02/05/lately/#comment-108 tim Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:01:31 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2750#comment-108 Yay! If it's not so clear above, I am still sort ambivalent about cycling this year. I have kind-of run out of goals and so I think it would enjoy riding and sniffing some of the roses along the way and to not be in so much of a hurry. Heh, but I say this sort of thing pretty often! Good luck with your season Bill. I envy your rides in MA. Yay! If it’s not so clear above, I am still sort ambivalent about cycling this year. I have kind-of run out of goals and so I think it would enjoy riding and sniffing some of the roses along the way and to not be in so much of a hurry. Heh, but I say this sort of thing pretty often! Good luck with your season Bill. I envy your rides in MA.

]]> Comment on Lately by Bill Russell http://boomboombike.com/blog/2012/02/05/lately/#comment-107 Bill Russell Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:09:27 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2750#comment-107 Oooh: the Cascade 1200. Great choice. Someday for me. This year I'm aiming at the Last Chance in September; this will give me the summer to peak my fitness then recover gently afterward through the fall. I barely managed to squeak though PBP on a completely flattened adrenal system. It took me four months to start feeling the urge/ability to train again. I'm back! Oooh: the Cascade 1200. Great choice. Someday for me. This year I’m aiming at the Last Chance in September; this will give me the summer to peak my fitness then recover gently afterward through the fall.

I barely managed to squeak though PBP on a completely flattened adrenal system. It took me four months to start feeling the urge/ability to train again. I’m back!

]]> Comment on Tim Barmmer by Dylan Barmmer http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/05/30/tim-barmmer/#comment-106 Dylan Barmmer Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:16:18 +0000 http://www.boomboombike.com/blog/2011/05/30/#comment-106 Wow. Just came across this. I am the Poetic Lunatic pictured here. Thank you so much for doing this. I never got to meet my uncle, but I grew up having him as a hero, thanks much to the undying + honorable love my father, John-Campbell Barmmer, always expressed for him. He sounds Amazing, and I wish I had met him. Again, thank you. Peace. Wow. Just came across this. I am the Poetic Lunatic pictured here. Thank you so much for doing this. I never got to meet my uncle, but I grew up having him as a hero, thanks much to the undying + honorable love my father, John-Campbell Barmmer, always expressed for him. He sounds Amazing, and I wish I had met him. Again, thank you. Peace.

]]> Comment on This Week in Review by tim http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/11/09/this-week-in-review/#comment-97 tim Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:43:53 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2665#comment-97 Thanks Bill. We were really too busy to do anything on this last visit, but I am sure that we will be back in the area and hopefully with time to visit. Thanks Bill. We were really too busy to do anything on this last visit, but I am sure that we will be back in the area and hopefully with time to visit.

]]> Comment on This Week in Review by Bill Russell http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/11/09/this-week-in-review/#comment-96 Bill Russell Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:29:51 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2665#comment-96 Tim, You're always welcome here during your visits to CT. We'd love to host you and your wife for Thanksgiving. Tim,

You’re always welcome here during your visits to CT. We’d love to host you and your wife for Thanksgiving.

]]> Comment on PBP 2011 pt 6 by Taylor http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/10/30/pbp-2011-pt-6/#comment-95 Taylor Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:27:05 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2625#comment-95 Great account! Daily Randonneur (http://thedailyrandonneur.wordpress.com/) has been posting other PBP stories on their blog, you should send them over a link. Great account!

Daily Randonneur (http://thedailyrandonneur.wordpress.com/) has been posting other PBP stories on their blog, you should send them over a link.

]]> Comment on PBP 2011 pt 6 by Bill Watts http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/10/30/pbp-2011-pt-6/#comment-89 Bill Watts Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:19:27 +0000 http://boomboombike.com/blog/?p=2625#comment-89 Thanks, Tim, for writing this to the end. I really enjoyed reading it. The detail you provide gives a strong impression of what it was like to do the ride. And I am triply impressed that you did this all on a fixie! Thanks, Tim, for writing this to the end. I really enjoyed reading it. The detail you provide gives a strong impression of what it was like to do the ride. And I am triply impressed that you did this all on a fixie!

]]> Comment on PBP 2011 Some Ride Reports by tim http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/10/09/pbp-2011-some-ride-reports/#comment-86 tim Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:09:28 +0000 http://www.boomboombike.com/blog/2011/10/09/#comment-86 Ah yes! I do remember you, as I have not shown the "secret" of fixing the vents to anyone else! That 400 was hard! I am flattered that you are reading this Bill. I will hopefully have more to come after this weekend. Ah yes! I do remember you, as I have not shown the “secret” of fixing the vents to anyone else! That 400 was hard! I am flattered that you are reading this Bill. I will hopefully have more to come after this weekend.

]]> Comment on PBP 2011 Some Ride Reports by Bill Watts http://boomboombike.com/blog/2011/10/09/pbp-2011-some-ride-reports/#comment-85 Bill Watts Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:23:47 +0000 http://www.boomboombike.com/blog/2011/10/09/#comment-85 Thanks, Tim, for the kind comment about my account. I have enjoyed reading yours as well, and am eager to find out how it ends. I think we have met. My home club is Great Lakes in Wisconsin, but since that's a fair hike, I ride with other clubs too, and I did the 300K and the July 400K in Ohio. I think I remember your showing me how you had opened up the vents in the RUSA night vest before the ride started, but I don't remember your riding a fixie. I have also enjoyed your photography and political commentary, and I am interested to see that you are a nurse, as my wife is too. Bill Watts Thanks, Tim, for the kind comment about my account. I have enjoyed reading yours as well, and am eager to find out how it ends. I think we have met. My home club is Great Lakes in Wisconsin, but since that’s a fair hike, I ride with other clubs too, and I did the 300K and the July 400K in Ohio. I think I remember your showing me how you had opened up the vents in the RUSA night vest before the ride started, but I don’t remember your riding a fixie.

I have also enjoyed your photography and political commentary, and I am interested to see that you are a nurse, as my wife is too.

Bill Watts

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