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Nice! But I’d call the one on the left sleeveless, not short-sleeved. I can’t recall ever seeing a photo of Rachael in a short-sleeve jersey.
2 weeks agoHow interesting! Thanks so much for the information, Scott. Glad you are doing much better and enjoying the bike again :)
2 weeks agoTucson is really Bridge City though,msurpeisingly for a place in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. The city sits at the center of a box roughly forty miles square,with a mountain range everywhere you look: the Catalinas to the north, Rincons to the east, Santa Rita’s to the south, and the Tucson Mountains to the west. Closer in, the town is all but surrounded by four dry washes that used to be rivers flowing in from the mountains: Rillito Wash, Pantano Wash, Julian Wash, and the Santa Rita River.
The Loop follows the edge of these washes, and along the way you’re constantly crossing bridges, most of them constructed of attractive weathering steel like this one, as it carries you across another minor wash feeding into the rivers. I should count them sometime. And then there are the more significant bridges that carry you across the rivers themselves, or closer in town across arterials, highways and railroad tracks: like the rattlesnake, Aviation and Palo Verde brepidges from a few days back.
I’ll bet there are between twenty and thirty of these bridges on the primary 50 mile loop, not counting its tangents that add another fifty miles of paved cycleway.
How ironic! This looks very similar to the bridge over the San Lorenzo River IN Santa Cruz..minus the tagging, homeless, tents, trash.
2 weeks agoNatch. She’s always in fashion.
2 weeks agoNo, I think I can afford to wait for the real thing.
2 weeks agoRachael’s helmet ( and top) mirrors the colors of the mural :)
2 weeks agoDid you add the road runner in your bird count, Scott? :)
2 weeks agoOoh, good word! I’ll have to remember to use that in a sentence sometime soon.
2 weeks agoThank goodness for neuroplasticity! Good to hear that you are learning new ways of doing things so that you can keep on doing what you love! I'm thrilled for you.
2 weeks agoThat’s wonderful to hear you are going to be riding in the Netherlands for 4 weeks! I really look forward to reading about trip.
2 weeks agoNo pressure, but we expect to see a journal coming out of that even if written after the fact. Looking forward to it.
2 weeks agoYou and I are in so similar situations but for different reasons. Me, former breast cancer, and now low osteoporosis levels, which ( here’s where the rheumatology comes in) will cause me to undergo calcium injections. I think heredity is 90 % of this, not the arimidex ( 1 mg).
Okay..enough of the “story-no-bike” stories! I WILL be riding in the Netherlands for 4 weeks in May!
No, that’s the rheumatology department’s job. I didn’t study much rheumatology in college, and before this I’m not sure I even knew what they did. I’m on a program to go in for a blood test periodically and they’ll notify me when they think it’s time to adjust my dosage, either up or down.
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Correct. In fact she told me that when she reviewed the post, but I still screwed it up.
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