It’s a new year and time to do my annual business review. If you’re not familiar with my story I semi-retired to 20 hours a week at my main job in 2017 after reaching financial independence years before. Since then...
If you’re like most, your job is a source of stress. Actually it’s probably the leading source of stress: According to the Center for Disease Control/National Institute on Occupational Safety & Health, the workplace is the number one cause of...
I’ve written before about how I moved up pretty fast in my career in the federal government. Having come from a tough job in the private sector I found standing out in the government to be easy. I just worked...
Regular readers have heard me mention it before, but if you’re not one of them, this blog is slowly dying. My traffic numbers peaked in late 2020 and have been steadily declining since. Perhaps it’s warranted and the quality of...
First things first, I didn’t do what the title says 🙂 This is my first attempt at joining the bottom-dwelling world of clickbaity bloggers who use salacious and misleading titles to gain clicks, and probably my last. If you’re new...
October marked 5 years of blissful semi-retirement for yours truly. Half of a decade! For those not familiar, I gave up my big-wig manager job and went down to 20 hours a week back in late 2017. I started my...
In 2020 when covid took off it launched an unprecedented bike boom. Millions of people who hadn’t ridden a bike since they were a kid looked to get one, or pulled their long forgotten old clunker out of the garage...
I wrote about the Great Resignation last year, it’s been a popular topic especially in personal finance circles. That post focused on the amount of new businesses being created while record numbers of “quits” were simultaneously recorded. Resignations, or ‘quits’,...
I still vividly remember that first day as if it were yesterday. It was a picture perfect bluebird October morning and the Potomac River was glass-flat and empty. As I took my first few paddle strokes away from the boat...
In 2021 as covid vaccines rolled out the cycling group rides and races that are such an important part of my life came back. While this provided a huge boost to my moral and my training, I also got some...
In the early 1990’s as unemployment crested past 7.5% and a recession plagued the economy, I was ready to graduate college. Jobs were hard to come by and things were bleak. The situation didn’t scare me as much as it...
If you’re an endurance athlete you might be familiar with lactate threshold. It’s defined as: the level at which the intensity of exercise causes lactate to accumulate in the blood at a faster rate than it can be removed, making...
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2024 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 1530 Miles
Running: 126 Miles
Hiking: 19 Miles
Paddling: 10 Miles
Climbing Days: 1
2023 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5400 Miles
Running: 472 Miles
Hiking: 37 Miles
Paddling: 96 Miles
Climbing Days: 6
2022 Activity Tracker
Cycling: 5408 Miles
Running: 321 Miles
Hiking: 43 Miles
Paddling: 40 Miles
Climbing Days: 7
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