four rides make a post
Mar. 17th, 2026 23:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursamajorOne of these days, I will get around to making myself a bike icon or three. I've only been biking for transportation as an adult for 18 years now!
My IT bands were a bit cranky at me this weekend because I did three rides in 36 hours. Coffee ride Friday morning to Jaffa - I really do need to get down there more often because they have such great seasonal drinks! My choice this time: the Chocolata Rummana, espresso and chocolate and pomegranate). Then Friday night, I'd promised a friend I'd go to bike party for their birthday, and he brought cupcakes. I'm not a particularly frequent attendee of bike party, mostly because the speaker systems people bring hurt my ears, but it's fun to do occasionally with friends. Saturday morning completed the trifecta: Kidical Mass, shepherding 200-odd kids and their families through the streets of Berkeley by bike, and then chilaquiles at Tacubaya withladyjax afterwards, needing fuel. And then I went home and napped and Strava lectured me about exceeding my training zone, LOL, as if.
The weekend before that, I took myself on the ferry over to the Embarcadero. Biked along the waterfront, up to the Golden Gate Bridge. Admired the view, decided it was windier than I wanted to fight on the bridge, and cruised back down through the Presidio, the Richmond, Golden Gate Park, and then over to the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, my actual destination. Four decades of Star Trek fandom, and I finally have a library card attesting to this fact in my wallet, along with our family membership at the Cetacean Institute (better known as the Monterey Bay Aquarium ;) ).
Still, I did take this most recent Sunday off from running because of the higher-than-normal activity, and squeezed a quick jog in this morning before the heatwave really set in. It should not be this close to 90F in the Bay Area in March, but at least I still have otter pops in the freezer. Worth noting: I'm finally at a point in my fitness where I can consistently jog 20 minutes in a row. I'm still slow af, but one of my fitness goals this year is to be able to jog a 5k without a significant walk break. I've done races in the past with run-walk intervals, I just want to broaden my toolset. And the cardio is good for breath control, key to singing, so I'm trying to encourage this virtuous feedback loop :)
Despite the heat, I had already defrosted the corned beef for boiled dinner for St. Patrick's Day dinner tonight, and it's one ofhyounpark's faves from our Boston era, so tradition upheld. I also baked soda bread, or at least a slightly nontrad version that called for yogurt instead of the buttermilk we never have on hand. And of course I modded that; we do raisins or currants in ours, not nuts, and for once, I even had caraway seeds on hand thanks to a recent Buy Nothing spice exchange), and that came out so well we've already finished half the loaf. So I got that all on the stove as early as possible to not overheat the house.
In between all the biking and baking, we managed to sneak in brunch on the patio at Oceanview Diner with CJ and Chung and their kids. I ordered the souffle pancake, knowing it was going to show up as dessert, and it was worth the wait (and the looks on everyone's faces 😁 ). Their souffle pancake is really more of a Dutch baby, which their predecessor called a Dutch bunny when I would order it as a kid decades ago, fluffy and just a bit eggy and perfect.
It's too hot to sleep; I think I'll have another otter pop.
My IT bands were a bit cranky at me this weekend because I did three rides in 36 hours. Coffee ride Friday morning to Jaffa - I really do need to get down there more often because they have such great seasonal drinks! My choice this time: the Chocolata Rummana, espresso and chocolate and pomegranate). Then Friday night, I'd promised a friend I'd go to bike party for their birthday, and he brought cupcakes. I'm not a particularly frequent attendee of bike party, mostly because the speaker systems people bring hurt my ears, but it's fun to do occasionally with friends. Saturday morning completed the trifecta: Kidical Mass, shepherding 200-odd kids and their families through the streets of Berkeley by bike, and then chilaquiles at Tacubaya with
ladyjax afterwards, needing fuel. And then I went home and napped and Strava lectured me about exceeding my training zone, LOL, as if.The weekend before that, I took myself on the ferry over to the Embarcadero. Biked along the waterfront, up to the Golden Gate Bridge. Admired the view, decided it was windier than I wanted to fight on the bridge, and cruised back down through the Presidio, the Richmond, Golden Gate Park, and then over to the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, my actual destination. Four decades of Star Trek fandom, and I finally have a library card attesting to this fact in my wallet, along with our family membership at the Cetacean Institute (better known as the Monterey Bay Aquarium ;) ).
Still, I did take this most recent Sunday off from running because of the higher-than-normal activity, and squeezed a quick jog in this morning before the heatwave really set in. It should not be this close to 90F in the Bay Area in March, but at least I still have otter pops in the freezer. Worth noting: I'm finally at a point in my fitness where I can consistently jog 20 minutes in a row. I'm still slow af, but one of my fitness goals this year is to be able to jog a 5k without a significant walk break. I've done races in the past with run-walk intervals, I just want to broaden my toolset. And the cardio is good for breath control, key to singing, so I'm trying to encourage this virtuous feedback loop :)
Despite the heat, I had already defrosted the corned beef for boiled dinner for St. Patrick's Day dinner tonight, and it's one of
hyounpark's faves from our Boston era, so tradition upheld. I also baked soda bread, or at least a slightly nontrad version that called for yogurt instead of the buttermilk we never have on hand. And of course I modded that; we do raisins or currants in ours, not nuts, and for once, I even had caraway seeds on hand thanks to a recent Buy Nothing spice exchange), and that came out so well we've already finished half the loaf. So I got that all on the stove as early as possible to not overheat the house.In between all the biking and baking, we managed to sneak in brunch on the patio at Oceanview Diner with CJ and Chung and their kids. I ordered the souffle pancake, knowing it was going to show up as dessert, and it was worth the wait (and the looks on everyone's faces 😁 ). Their souffle pancake is really more of a Dutch baby, which their predecessor called a Dutch bunny when I would order it as a kid decades ago, fluffy and just a bit eggy and perfect.
It's too hot to sleep; I think I'll have another otter pop.
