Author: kartoone

  • Birmingham to Chattanooga – well, almost!

    I had my longest training ride of the year today. Kristine was meeting some friends in Chattanooga for a lunch get-together, and my parents had volunteered to take the kids for the night – sooo what’s a crazy cyclist to do … bike to Chattanooga!!! That was the plan, and it went pretty well but…

  • Quick update

    Well – lots has been happening even if I haven’t been able to update this blog much recently :-(. So here is a quick update of what has been going on with me and cycling: We just got back from a two week mission trip to Nicaragua in which I also had the opportunity to…

  • Quick update

    Well – lots has been happening even if I haven’t been able to update this blog much recently :-(. So here is a quick update of what has been going on with me and cycling: We just got back from a two week mission trip to Nicaragua in which I also had the opportunity to…

  • Cycling in Nicaragua

    A bike race in Managua – 1. 6:30 wakeup by the kids, goodbye to Kristine 2. 6:50 walk out the door pick up taxi on the way to the bus station 3. 7:20 Take a “microbus” to Managua – these microbuses only leave when they are full and cost $2. When I arrived, there was…

  • Cycling in Nicaragua

    A bike race in Managua – 1. 6:30 wakeup by the kids, goodbye to Kristine 2. 6:50 walk out the door pick up taxi on the way to the bus station 3. 7:20 Take a “microbus” to Managua – these microbuses only leave when they are full and cost $2. When I arrived, there was…

  • Don’t mind the snow!

    I just saw this new feature on wordpress so I thought it would be fun to enable it — especially since there is a chance of snow here today! It looks like it will be an indoor ride for me with heavy rain expected the rest of the day … massive storm system … check…

  • Don’t mind the snow!

    I just saw this new feature on wordpress so I thought it would be fun to enable it — especially since there is a chance of snow here today! It looks like it will be an indoor ride for me with heavy rain expected the rest of the day … massive storm system … check…

  • I didn’t know the off-season could be this busy!

    So it is definitely the off-season. One way I know that is because of the number of projects that have managed to make it to the queue for processing. I am working on the development of two different websites in addition to creating a toolkit for monitoring Ajax performance as part of my academic research.…

  • I didn’t know the off-season could be this busy!

    So it is definitely the off-season. One way I know that is because of the number of projects that have managed to make it to the queue for processing. I am working on the development of two different websites in addition to creating a toolkit for monitoring Ajax performance as part of my academic research.…

  • Fall Commute

    I biked home from work early today to make it ahead of the rain. Even though the lighting wasn’t good, the fall colors were absolutely amazing. I had my old camera with me and got to do one of my favorite things to do while riding a bike — taking pictures! These pictures below are…