A couple of months ago I joined a local cycling club, Mission Cycling. Since moving back to California five years ago and getting back into cycling seriously again I’ve been looking for a group to ride with, but the clubs were always either race-oriented or based outside the city. Then in the past six months I started seeing a kit with the logo “Mission” out on the roads in Marin. Turns out the club is based out of my neighborhood in San Francisco, so after a stop-light chat with a member and visiting the website I found that this was just what I’ve been looking for and signed up.
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My browser workflow uses a separate window for most tasks or research subjects, grouping related tabs together in the same window. While I use Firefox for browsing unless some rare site has been foolishly developed exclusively for IE, I occasionally try Safari to see if it works for me. One of the ways Safari has FF beat is in it’s support for dragging tabs between windows.
This little hack forces Safari to open clicked links to open as a new tab in the same window; essential for my browsing style. Open Terminal and type this at the prompt.
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
To reverse the setting just change true to false.
Thanks to the guidance of our team member Emily who’s done the ride every year, orientation was a breeze today.
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I’ve been following the first 11 stages of the 2009 Giro d’Italia but until today have been frustrated by the apparent lack of English video coverage.
Today’s stage was a very important stage as time trials often result in major changes in the General Classification (GC), or overall standings. On top of that this time trial wasn’t flat or straight; rather it was long, twisty, and involved two significant climbs. It required competitors to ride flat-out for about 90 minutes.
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Last weekend all four of our LifeCycle team members who are riding finally got together for a team ride. Emily, Justin, and I did the 60 mile China Camp loop on Saturday and on Sunday Addy joined us an 85 mile ride to Pt. Reyes Station and back.
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For my birthday Addy and I spent the weekend in my hometown of Santa Cruz, CA and went for a 60 mile bike ride through the strawberry fields in Watsonville. We came back through Corolitos and stopped at the house where my sister was born.
Today I’m sick in bed for the third day in a row. What started as a runny nose on Wednesday had me bed-ridden by Thursday. Today it has moved into my chest. Bummer, I was really hoping to go for a long ride out to Pt. Reyes with the Mission Cycling Club today.
Last Saturday I had also intended to ride with these peeps but was 30 minutes late getting out of the house.
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On Wednesday, April 15th, we had a fundraiser for our Lifecycle team. Many generous people donated items for a raffle and a silent auction. Although only about 25 people paid at the door for the event, the auction was a big success and we raised almost $2000 for our team member goals (each rider must raise at least $3000 to participate in the event).
As I write this I’m at 70% of my goal; I need to raise $886 in the next month and a half. Can you help with a small donation to a worthy cause? If yes, visit http://tofighthiv.org/goto/shannon. The beneficiary of these funds, The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, provides leadership in preventing new HIV infections.
Adriene’s uncle Daniel has generously organized an event to raise funds for my team’s bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of AIDS/LifeCycle 8.
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I’ve been meaning to visit China Camp for some time. I’ve read that the park is a great place for cycling and now that I’ve worked up my mileage I can add it to the list of available routes.
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