Rode my bike to work today – a paltry 12k – in honour of my man Mr. @toniklund who yesterday started his second ITI Ride of 1,000 MILES across Alaska. Go get em Toni, teet suomesta ylpeän! 🇫🇮
Finally, after many years of winter riding, sprung for some Revelate Designs Expedition Pogies. Waited to long. Totally worth it.
We didn’t need anything in town but it was like 8°C so I went anyway. And took the long way.
Sunday night. Decide to ride to work the next day. Check the weather. -8ºC. Steel your resolve. Sit on the couch staring into space for half an hour trying to decide which bike to ride. The regular commuter? The trail is snow-covered and that means longer in the dark on country roads with commuters who…
It started with tattoo research, really. I was thinking about getting a tattoo of the Chinese characters (because those aren’t cliché at all, right?) for the Buddhist* Precept of either ‘Right Action’ or ‘Right Effort’ – so I was reading up on the difference between the two. The word action just sounded better than effort…