This morning, we joined 19,996 of our best friends for this year’s annual Bike The Drive event. Like last year, we did the north leg of the ride (Balbo to Bryn Mawr). Unlike last year, Lisa and Emma joined Becky and me. The kids weren’t all that hot on getting up at 4:30 am and …
Sox Day in Chicago
The White Sox had a motorcade from US Cellular Field to the north end of the Loop today. Here’s Ozzie Guillen at the front of one of the buses. This was the first ticker-tape parade I’ve ever seen, and it was very cool. Here’s the sky with a couple people on top of the LaSalle …
25 Guys Pulling on the Same Rope
“Win Or Die Trying”– those were fans in the bleachers at the White Sox-Mariners game we saw last August. It looks like the White Sox won. Today’s quote comes courtesy of Scott Podsednik. Our intention last night was to walk over to Harry’s or Peggy’s to watch the game, but once we got settled in …
Go Go Sox
Here are the White Sox outfielders during a pitcher switch at today’s game against the Seattle Mariners. That’s Jermaine Dye, Aaron Rowland, and Scott Podsednik taking a short break. Rowland had the defensive play of the game when he snagged Richie Sexson’s fly ball by bouncing off the center field wall, and it happened just …
Weekend Wrap
We did not do the MS150 this weekend; the kids were exhausted, plus Becky was not feeling well and I felt that riding between cornfields in 90-plus degree / high humidity weather was not the best thing. I understand from speaking with my teammates who did ride that it was fairly brutal out there. Some …
Grinders
On Saturday morning I got up early to take the Specialized out for a spin. (I’ve been riding the Schwinn so far.) It’s been inside since I got it back from its end-of-year tuneup, so it should have been in top working order. Wrong. Nearly every gear grinds, except for a few when I’m on …
Two-Wheeling
On Monday, we went to Kozy’s and got Becky a new bike. She got the Giant Sedona ST, which is what they call a comfort-mountain bike. (Evidently, now there are subcategories in the comfort bike range; they also have a comfort-road bike series.) The bike in the photo is the men’s version; Becky got the …
Joining 20,000 of My Closest Friends
Since 2002, I have found myself on a cool Sunday morning each May looking at exactly what you see in the picture above. Today was the annual Bike The Drive event in Chicago. Becky and I left the house at 4:45 this morning to join the festivities. We met up with Glenn and Lauren at …
Good Intentions
I had every intention of doing the 7:15 am cycling class today, but it was just too hard to get out of bed. Instead, I took out the Schwinn and went for a ride. This is a shot of Sunset Meadows at about 8:00 this morning. In the distance behind the guy walking his dog, …
BITEMS Update
The BITEMS team website was updated tonight. You’ll see lots of photos of the team on this year’s MS150 bike ride.