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time looking at cycle shop inventory online drooling over the possibilities i found a few local shops with good reputations near me and scoped them out had a great conversation with a cycle nerd at one shop and test rode some different types makes to see what felt good i had narrowed my search down to some very promising prospects and mid summer seemed a good time to buy with lots of sales then finally i decided once decided i pulled the trigger i bought another bike this summer a gorgeous norco xfr 2 step thru in turquoise take a look at this beauty oh be still my beating heart how i love this bike the difference in ride between this beautiful piece of engineering and the shitty little supercycle is insane my first ride on norco neddy was 20km of bliss at one point it felt like i was gliding across the pavement as if it were ice practically skating the precision and ease i felt beneath me as i pedalled was incomparable to any other bike i d ever ridden before i came home practically insane with joy revelling in a biker s high beyond my wildest dreams this bike and i we became something out there on the road we fused together as kindred spirits in sport i for you and you for me and never shall another tear us apart i used to be annoyed by the people i d see cycling up the backroads clogging the lane with their ambitions and livestrong wills i d be driving impatiently behind them swerving into the other lane to pass when no oncoming cars obstructed the way lance armstrong dickheads i d say to d as i passed them in a huff but now i admire them i aspire to be them every time i see someone on a bike i m checking out their rig wanting to see what they ve got curious about their configuration i ve learned quite a bit about bikes and cycling these past few months i got an app called strava too so i can track my stats i love making maps with it and seeing the paths i ve woven through the surrounding neighbourhoods i ve been pushing myself harder going for longer and longer rides sometimes i m so in the zone out there on my bike i think i ll never stop i ll just go until i can go no mo but then the sunlight fades the bats come out the streets become dark and perilous and i just have to head home to tuck my bike away safely in the garage and chug a big quenching glass of chocolate milk i d put a collective 474km on both of my bikes from mid june to aug 30th i d been improving in both pace and distance i started out doing casual 30 40 minute pleasure tours around town that quickly shifted into 90 minute sessions putting pedal to the metal exertions of body and mind that made me feel like a mighty road warrior i was working my way up to a 30km ride when my riding abruptly came to an end because i fell a rite of passage for any rookie cyclist i suppose but a shitty thing regardless i was in the zone going too fast and feeling too fierce and then in the blink of an eye i was toppled in a heap on the side of the road i misjudged the path and turned too quickly onto a broken stretch of unforgiving asphalt had i been a fraction of a second quicker i might have steered myself to a safer stop in the soft grassy ditch but alas skin met pavement in an unfortunate and painful scraping fashion the result being my first experience with the dread pirate road rash one leg took the brunt of it all my elbow was bonked too but luckily i was wearing long sleeves that morning so minimal damage there and by the way i always wear a helmet helmets are cool helmets are the thing to do any impressionable readers ought to know that always wear a helmet my darlings and so yet another research project darkened my door how do i deal with road rash do i go to the hospital surely not tis only a flesh wound thankfully i wasn t too far from home when i fell so it was a quick toot home and i limped in with my new project this was a rare saturday morning ride so woody was up when i came home he saw my leg and his eyes widened in horror he said are you going to die mum with worry in his words i laughed and said no buddy don t you worry mum mum had a fall but i ll be fine he watched in wonder as d helped me wash the debris from my leg and patched me up we didn t have very good first aid supplies on hand so it was kind of a ridiculous looking combination of gauze and 8 different sized band aids holding back the mess i took to the cycling forums yet again and learned about wet wound healing and a magical product called tegaderm i ordered a roll online and got by on more random ass band aids for a day or two until it was delivered and what a game changer tegaderm is i was able to slather a healthy glob of vaseline across my abrasions and cover with tegaderm and a bit of medical tape on the edges to seal in the moisture in about two weeks time my leg was looking really good and now almost one month later it s just about completely healed there are just a couple of faint scratch lines left the time it took healing from my wound was an unexpected setback in my cycling journey but i couldn t risk another fall on that leg september has been a maddeningly beautiful month too but it s okay now that my road rash is fully healed i ll make time for a couple of peaceful jaunts in october before norco neddy has to get tucked in for his winter hibernation i ll do it for the pleasure not for the glory next season will be about setting goals and smashing them conquering the road yet again looking back on it my summer of cycling feels like a stroke of brilliance an essential need for the soul summoned by a repressed subconscious desire for a break from my mundane suburban routine i m so grateful for that strange and sudden compulsion that struck me upon waking one otherwise unremarkable june day i can t overstate how good it feels to get out there on my bike and explore to pump my legs and push myself a little harder each ride to make playlists that motivate me and elevate the ride to spend some quality time with me in motion what a summer it s been and now if you ll excuse me i need to go ask d to research something called peloton pass the good vibes on share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email more share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in goals hobbies tagged bike bikes biking cycling fun hobbies life travel 5 comments january 22 2025 books i read 2024 hey gang i am back with another reporting of all the books i read this past calendar year which is the one thing that you can count on consistently from this blog that i ve otherwise left to shrivel on the vine i should change that i really do want to write more i need the outlet but do people even read blogs anymore if a blog falls in the tiktok forest can anybody hear it i guess that doesn t matter i write this for me and my one blogger friend brian hi brian and any other unwitting fool who stumbles upon it i d like to write more so i m gunna just jot that down and hopefully find the gumption to follow through this year anyways 2024 was a record breaking year in terms of my reading because i read the most books i ve ever read in one year that i know of because i ve only been keeping track officially since 2017 maybe i read more books one year like when i was 8 and i just don t know it that was a big year for goosebumps and i was fucking 8 so what else did i have to do but in terms of quantifiable stats i read 66 books in 2024 yeah sixty fucking six that feels like an immensely significant number to me mainly because i decided it is keeping in mind i know some people who read no books and i know someone who read over 100 books last year that person is a lovely inspiring reading machine they re the lebron james of reading and i recognize that they are the true outlier here lots of people read none that s very common but 100 is rarified air and i kinda feel like 66 is too if the goal is a book a week 52 is easily achieved depending on what you read but i really put the pedal to the metal last year and i feel like my 66 is an impressive showing what was so different from years prior not much but i guess i was motivated there s a lot of books that exist and i want to read as many of the good ones as i can because it just feels good you know to be completely engrossed in a gripping adventure outside of my boring suburban shell slip into a world of murder and mayhem and leave unscathed an unassuming voyeur of slickly contrived drama and while life with woody is still demanding and very hands on somehow more opportunities to read during his waking hours have cropped up when i take him to swim or gymnastics class i whip out a book while i sit in the stands yeah i m that parent or sometimes on the weekends we tell him it s quiet hour and he has to play independently because he just needs to calm the fuck down and chill out for a bit and we re tapped out on playing hot wheels and dinosaurs for the moment which is conveniently a great reading hour for me i m hoping that my love of reading will extend to him via osmosis or whatever science term thingy it is that transmits shit to others i figure he ll see how cool i look doing it and obviously he s gunna want to be hella cool like that too right sometimes he does a great job at quiet hour playing entirely by himself quite happily other times he ll play a bit during quiet hour but it s obvious he s still jonesing for parental attention so he ll curl up beside me and ask me to read my book aloud to him if i m reading something that isn t appropriate for his ears i ll tell him no but if i m reading something fairly tame i ll oblige the first time i did it was to humour him thinking he d get bored of it in 30 seconds because there weren t any pictures but to my surprise he actually liked it i was reading from a book called how to talk to little kids so they ll listen exposing some great parenting manipulations to make life with him easier while he sat there an enraptured listener i haven t finished that book btw so it is not on the list this year i ve just been reading choice chapters from it as needed he also sat and listened me reading over 15 pages of val kilmer s memoir aloud no clue why that resonated with him so deeply but thanks val my plan is working after all now let s get down to brass tacks what you came here for what you re all dying to see the list i still write a tangible touchable lickable version of the list in my list making journal it took up three pages this year not pictured the third page here it is in all its skittles toned glory a new habit this year though is that i ve also started digitizing my list i ve done that using the goodreads app and with google sheets double your pleasure double your fun i always say now you can see a new and improved list of all the books i read showing the author genre date finished and my own personal rating it s a simple 3 point scale from total crap to excellent with an it okay middle tier data analytics nerds rejoice some noteworthy conclusions drawn from my google sheet 26 66 books were rated excellent a 39 excellency rating 3 66 books were rated total crap only a mere 4 5 of the books i read sucked ass which i guess means i m doing a good job choosing entertaining books all 3 of those total crap books were from the horror genre december was my most prolific month with 9 total books read on average i read 5 books per month horror is my most read genre 22 66 33 a full third of all my reading no surprise there the thrillers are all very horror adjacent though i m just splitting hairs here so we could mush those genres together and conclude that 35 66 53 of the books i read were scratching a serious itch for danger i read 2 pulitzer winning works of fiction and they were both excellent as expected ronan farrow s work on catch and kill contributed to a pulitzer win for the new yorker as well but in a different category to note i am on a casually meandering side quest to read all of the books that have won a pulitzer prize for fiction i m keeping a separate list for that and i ve already read 10 76 books awarded that prize so far this is the list that i m working from for that if you re curious the pulitzer prizes fiction the highest rated category is a three way tie of 100 excellence between pulitzer winners non fiction and kid s lit every single book i read in those categories was excellent but those stats are admittedly skewed given the raw data i m working with the most read author was dean koontz with 6 books many authors made multiple appearances though riley sager 5 stephen king 3 thomas harris 3 richard chizmar 3 josh malerman 3 grady hendrix 2 kiersten white 2 madeline miller 2 and robert mccammon 2 respectively which just goes to show that i am nothing if not loyal there were some other familiar favourites making singular appearances as well c j tudor neil gaiman and joe hill a really fabulous stat that i get from using the goodreads app is the total number of pages i ve devoured across all the books read in a singular year 24 077 pages that is truly incredible i was shocked when i saw it but also quite proud this is the sole reason i m using goodreads to be honest i don t rate books or write reviews or engage content from other readers in any way i just like that big juicy pages stat also of note i had an eye exam this year and have learned that in my advancing years i am now far sighted i had to get glasses for reading there i am getting all old and shit kinda looking like dave grohl maybe but at least i don t cheat on my spouse and keep a stash of secret babies squirrelled away shots fired dave you let us all down last year with that shit you dirtbag and i m still mad at you with so many pages turned and so many lessons learned i have to say that the absolute cream of the crop this year the best of the best books the ones i would recommend to any one are these in no specific ranked order black river orchard by chuck wendig a bonkers nutso tale of horror and murder revolving around artisanal apples it made me a chuck wendig fan and i m looking forward to reading more of his stuff brothers by alex van halen is this a perfect rock n roll memoir no is it entertaining and deeply endearing hell yes i loved learning more about the van halen brothers and how they grew up i loved hearing crazy stories about diamond dave and i loved spending time in a loyal and loving sibling relationship alex is right the connection they had is one that most siblings will sadly never achieve circe by madeline miller i don t often read historical fiction but this book was on paste magazine s list of the 40 best novels of the 2010 s another side quest i m on and i kept seeing it highly recommended in the book forums i follow i immediately got why it s been lauded as a remarkable and fantastic read after the 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