Mary Panttaja

An apology to my dedicated readers for disappearing the last few weeks. The flow of thoughts has been quite distracted by family, travels, and new work projects. Any day now things will simplify themselves and the updraft of new ideas will start again. Isn’t that what we always tell ourselves? Sometimes it is true. But we need to be compelled by simplicity instead of complexity so we give up the distractions as soon as they can be released.

In addition, Jim and I have stepped up our riding. 10 days ago we started targeting 100-mile weeks—and now we’ve been days with over 120 mile trailing 7 days. This can’t last as our work time grows, but it is a good transition period. (We finally did our “block”; if you leave our place and keep turning right (or left) and take the smallest loop possible—30 miles and one big-ish hill.)