By dougfoot, on July 23rd, 2010
“Crazytrike.com” as a concept has been around since December 2005 on a site called “TagWorld.com”. I used the site to post my progress on training for the 2006 Seattle to Portland and continued blogging with them until they changed formats in May 2008. I and many others lost blog settings during TagWorld’s tansition, not fun [...]
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By dougfoot, on July 22nd, 2010

Third night training ride, it seems that I’ll get back into “shape” pretty quickly, even though I haven’t ridden much over the past year. Usually by this time of the year I would have ridden over 3000 miles and be winding down for the coming winter season. Counting tonight’s ride, I have ridden a total of [...]
Continue reading Easy Going…
By dougfoot, on July 20th, 2010
After yesterday’s “theme breakdown”, tonight I find there is yet another update: Atahualpa 3.5.3 I updated to this new revision, holding my breathe, and, wait for it… after making the code change to my header.php and removing the default header images… no issues – just like it’s supposed to be! Now I can go ride without interruption. [...]
Continue reading Better behaved!
By dougfoot, on July 19th, 2010
I came home to an update to the theme I use, Atahaulpa, updated to 3.5.2. Proceded to do my “usual” upgrade, and “broke” my site (I hate when that happens). It turned out that to be just a bit of mixed coding – using 3.5.1 header.php, versus modifying the header.php in 3.5.2 with this line: “<!–p if [...]
Continue reading That was scary…
By dougfoot, on July 19th, 2010
Today, Monday, the day after the Seattle to Portland, I am begining my “quest for fitness” after taking a year “off”. I’m looking at Nike shoes for cross trainers, (I used to be a fairly active runner before I became involved in cycling). Basically, the shoes I choose will have to have arch support and be [...]
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