Crystal’s Adventures

Thanks to the Grist (Crystal’s favorite place for enviro-news), I discovered Walk Score, a quick calculator that will give your neighborhood a numeric score on a scale of 0 to 100 depending on how “walking-friendly” it is. Nearby parks, stores, cafes and other conveniences in walking distance all factor in.
Unfortunately, our Eno Trace neighborhood scored [...]

A beautiful July afternoon - perfect for a picnic with friends at West Point on the Eno, a short hike through the woods, and a swim at Sennett Hole on the Eno River.
Our friend Carol gave us these “Dog Goggles” for Charlie, as he is such an avid swimmer. He looks pretty cool with them [...]

Took Clinton to the airport at 4:45 this morning, so I’m a bit sad. In good news, at least four Numb Tooties and couple of Mary’s Marvels are coming over this morning for a 25-mile bike ride from my house. We’ll explore the beautiful country roads of North Durham, including the historic Bahama and Stagville [...]

My bike team for the September 8th and 9th MS150 bike ride in New Bern, NC is called “Mary’s Marvels”, named after our team captain’s mom, who has multiple sclerosis. We have decided to go with superheros as our theme, and we will all wear little red capes on our cycling jerseys. Awesome!
So each of [...]

Ohmigosh! I am so busy that I barely have time to blog anymore.
The Fartlekers (my running club) and the Numb Tooties (biking club) now have five days of exercise per week. We’re gearing up for three big bike races in the next two months and our very first marathon this coming December. I just joined [...]

Check out these other new photos we took today!

This is weird.

Achieved a Personal Record (PR) in yesterday’s Four on the Fourth race in Carrboro - the fastest I’ve ever run. The prizes were special athletic socks, complete with cartoon American flags. The weather wasn’t even too hot. Twelve of us went out to breakfast at Elmo’s afterward.
Last night I went to one of the craziest [...]

Guess who knows how to dance the Charleston now?! Yep, that’s right.

I can now change a bike tube (even on the rear wheel!), clean and lube the chain and put the chain back on the bike if it falls off, all thanks to the eccentric bike mechanic running the free workshops at REI.
Julia and I biked to work again on Friday. We might start biking to [...]