The races we’re missing: Kruger’s Krossing 2020-11-22 Ice-cold adobe mud, freezing rain, bonfires, manure, and beer. The perfect farm race.
The races we’re missing: Barton Park 2020-11-15 I love this icy cold gritty sufferfest in a gravel quarry
The races we’re missing: Deschutes Brewery 2020-11-01 So this is never my favorite weekend of racing but it is reliably one of my favorite weekends of the year.
The races we’re missing: Cyclocross Crusade: Cascade Locks 2020-10-25 A great race & venue I arrived at late in my career
The races we’re missing: Cyclocross Crusade: Alpenrose Dairy 2020-10-10 I would spend an obscene amount of money to be able to race my least-favorite race this year
The races we’re missing: Heiser Farm 2020-10-04 Heiser Farm is the kind of race that reminds me I like racing BECAUSE I suck at it
Succession 2020-10-03 Imagine the worst, cruelest, most incompetent, most ineffectual CEO you’ve ever worked under. Remember what a total shitshow that job was? Now imagine that CEO just…vanishes.
The races we’re missing: Blind Date at the Dairy 2020-09-30 I’m (re)writing this narrative in February 2021, after receiving the disappointing news that Alpenrose is permanently closed to recreational use.
The races we’re missing: Ninkrossi 2020-09-26 Ninkrossi is one of my favorite venues despite being historically one of my worst races.
The Litany Against Fear 2020-09-22 Yellow cones will be on your left, red cones on your right. You and your bike must go over all barriers.
Burned forests 2020-09-21 The fires will leave a patchwork of death and rebirth in the forest, but where they touched human habitations there will be only destruction
We have spent an entire week indoors 2020-09-16 As a fresh air addict, this past week has been trying
We are already in the refuge all our neighbors are fleeing to 2020-09-11 Inner Portland is probably the safest place in western Oregon right now.
The fires this time 2020-09-09 Monday the fires were a potentiality. Today we are capped by their creeping murk.
No cyclocross 2020-08-13 Every year since 2011, from Labor Day to Thanksgiving, our family ritual was CYCLOCROSS. Not this year 😢
We weren’t off the grid, so much as adjacent to it 2020-08-11 There was a house with a roof & plumbing & electricity & internet, after a fashion. I liked the fashion: satellite. It was just fast...
Eagle Cap Wilderness 2020-08-08 As a Nebraskan I am a cheap date, scenery-wise. Oregonians come to the Wallowas for the beauty not the solitude. It’s the backpacking equivalent of...
Skies outside cities 2020-08-06 I grew up with skies outside of cities which are the skies most people in most of history grew up with. At the cabin there...
The best bike is the bike you have 2020-08-04 I regret that I didn’t bring my own bike but I regret more that I didn’t bring tools to fix up the bikes that are...
Adventure Dad is proud 2020-08-02 All the kids brought knives along for this adventure without me nagging them.
August 2020 2020-08-01 I’m taking a break from social media. Check my web-log for occasional updates.
Wy’easting 2020-07-19 For OBRA’s Wy’easting Challenge, today I rode 13 repeats of Montgomery street from the old PFD No. 1 Station to Council Crest. Each repeat was...
What Portland feels like right now 2020-07-18 Portland is in the national news right now and if you didn’t live here you might be forgiven for thinking our city is a hellscape...
Aspects of backpacking, rated♥ 2020-06-23 For much of my 20s many of my jobs looked suspiciously like backpacking and I lived for weeks or months at a time in tents....
Rickety local builds are a bad project smell 2020-05-25 Everyone (engineers, designers, project managers) on a web project should be able to spin up a local dev environment in less than two hours, using...
Covid-19 diary: Quarantine fatigue 2020-05-12 Been a while since I’ve done this. Straightforward: we are busy, and we are tired. Less straightforward: it is obvious our federal government has not...
Covid-19 Diary: Quarantine books 2020-05-11 I have made three or four Powell’s orders since March 16. Here’s what has arrived thus far: Selected Writings — Hildegard of Bingen. I only...
Covid-19 Diary: sleep and dreams 2020-04-21 With hundreds of millions of people sheltering at home during the coronavirus pandemic, some dream experts believe that withdrawal from our usual environments and daily...
Covid-19 diary: at the river 2020-04-16 This kind of thing never gets old Shake it off from Paul Souders on Vimeo.
Covid-19 diary: Inside 2020-04-15 Today was the first day of the quarantine that I spent entirely inside. It was a beautiful day and I got up early for my...
Covid-19 Diary: Fear of Contamination is the crowbar fascists will use to pry open liberals’ hearts 2020-04-13 Which is scarier?— Paul Souders 🐌 (@axoplasm) April 12, 2020 Admit it: when you saw ppl arriving at your neighbors’ for Easter brunch you wanted...
Covid-19 Diary: Timmy Failure 2020-04-12 This post was written 2020-04-15 Last night as a family we watched the new Timmy Failure movie, set and filmed in North Portland. It was...
Covid-19 diary: Resources / fraying 2020-04-08 I need to stop and count the resources our household has for coping with the coronavirus crisis: Two grownups with secure jobs those jobs require...
Covid-19 diary: Council Crest 2020-04-05 This weekend on our family bike ride everyone rode to the top of Council Crest. We were kind of focused on the youngest, I mean...
Covid-19 diary: a bad day 2020-04-03 I had a bad day yesterday. Maybe the first day I would characterize as such in the past three weeks. I was up early to...
Covid-19 diary: cozy catastrophe 2020-04-02 From my Twitter: so half my friends have time to learn to bake bread, the other half barely have time to shower guess which half...
Covid-19 Diary: Wild 2020-03-31 It’s wild that the Developed world more or less intentionally went into a medically induced coma to shut down this virus with “only” a 1–3%...
Covid-19 Diary: third week, second weekend 2020-03-30 Adjusting to the surreality of Social Distance Commutes. Traffic every day is like Christmas or quieter. Weird though that people are not driving any better,...
Covid-19 diary: social distance 2020-03-26 I worry that Portlanders, already prone to anxieties about personal space and body purity, are going to be psychically damaged by “social distancing.” Already I’m...
Covid-19 diary: bodega 2020-03-25 So far this week I’ve made three trips to grocery stores. The first two stores were mostly well stocked except each store was missing some...
Covid-19 diary: outside 2020-03-21 This post was authored on 2020-03-25 We took a family bike ride today to Powell Butte, and then up it and over it. I have...
COVID-19 Diary: habits 2020-03-20 @11:27 I have done 4 things that made this week much less stressful than it might have been: get up at 6:30 am & ride...
COVID-19 Diary: Fortunate 2020-03-19 @10:05 I (and my family) have been extremely fortunate so far in this crisis: I have a relatively secure contract through at least early summer...
COVID-19 Diaries 2020-03-18 Occurs to me — occurred to me a week ago? — that I should be keeping a diary of my experience during COVID-19. Daily. Consider...
Freedom Machine 2020-02-21 For the nth time in a year now I have an internal infection that’s keeping me, very specifically, off the bike. I can do most...
I Never Quite Recovered From My First Exposure to Kombucha 2020-02-12 From this Twitter thread ca 2002 at Last Thursday on Alberta st., there was a 20-something white dude with dreadlocks, selling kombucha at a card...
Five percent more chill 2020-02-05 Every morning I wrestle with this feeling that maybe people driving cars are just lazy. I’m thinking this as I ride with my kids five...
Human spaces reconceptualized for machines 2020-01-16 Almost every day I ride through Riverplace, a lovely wide car-free path, lined with shops & apartments, opening onto the Marina, just south of downtown....
Testimony in favor of the Residential Infill Project 2020-01-15 Selfishly: I want more — and more diverse — neighbors, and I want more commerce.
No matter where you’re from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor♥ 2020-01-08 The central urbanist question for moderately posh urbanites like myself is: “should poor people be allowed to live in our neighborhood?” If the answer is...
Energy → Technology → Culture 2020-01-02 What if humanity didn’t have access to eons of solar energy stored in the form of fossil fuels? What if our technological progress were constrained entirely by the energy falling on its surface, and not buried beneath it?
