🤬 While racing a bike Strava segment, during our weekly group ride with our friends, I broke my elbow in two! Due to the kind of break, it required surgery & cyborg 🦾 upgrades. Surprisingly, I had very little pain throughout as long as I didn’t move it to a painful position.

Utterly fantastic gravelbike climb up Mt. Tam, to Muir Beach, during rare snowy week in Bay Area. Thirsty Thursday group of five of us – part of East Bay Gravel Bikers. The snow was in the cooler areas up Mt. Tam (didn’t get on video, but picture stills).

Hunter and I gravel bike up Mt. Tamalpais “Old Railroad Grade”, and head down the challenging “Rock Springs” fire road, circling 3 lakes! (Bon Tempe, Lagunitas & Phoenix)

Wow. OMG. Words. Just had the insanely ambitous and most fun bikeride I’ve had in 15 years! While I’m zero-ing in on what gravel bike to buy, Hunter let me borrow his 3T Exploro Racemax new gravel bike for a ride together on a 3-day weekend. I shot for the moon – “let’s go up Mount Tamalpais (if I even can) and try to get down the other side and ride around back to the start”. About 30 miles. I haven’t been off-road,…