Prologue: As I prepared to leave for Ride the Rockies this year, I struggled with what to call it. Was it a vacation? Most vacations involve fun – and this would involve hours of discomfort, aching muscles, saddle sores, and waking up every day around 5:15 a.m.. Calling it a “bike ride” did not seem…
Archives for 2014
The Best Year Of My Life
In November 2012 I learned that my CIO position had been eliminated and that I would be without employment starting January 1, 2013. I knew I was starting a new journey – and unlike most journeys in my life, I had no idea where this one was going to end. A little after a year…
Five Lessons of How I Made the Impossible Routine
When I was a boy, I remember my dad telling me about Roger Bannister. It was widely believed that no human could run a mile in under four minutes. Scientists, physicists, and all sorts of experts had explanations of why this was impossible. But then the morning of May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran a…