DaCrizzow

    It's been two full years now since I put my bikes away and started running. Last year I began two races but bailed in the middle. I just wasn't feeling it. This year was the first year since 2000 that I didn't do a single bike race. The last two years have been taken up with running ultra-marathons. This seems to bother some people.     Just to lay some background info, while living in Nashville, TN, I bought my first adult bike when I was 27years old. just some crappy mountain bike for $60 from a friend and it changed my life. All of a sudden my world got more manageable. Even though I was mainly using it to meet people I was selling drugs too, I looked forward to every one of those little trips. Right away I started commuting to work and it didn't take long before I was taking longer and longer trips away from my house. I still hadn't given over to any sort of "bike culture" though. There really wasn't any at the time in Nashville, TN other than

    This week marks 25 years of commuting by either foot or bicycle. There were several years before that too but they were kind of on/off so I just start my count from here. Don't see it changing anytime soon either.     Coming into a "working age" while living in the suburbs outside of Nashville, TN isn't the most convenient place to start a working life without a car. I did when I had to and got a lot of rides from my folks and friends but like a lot of places in the U.S. people lived in one town and worked in another with commutes anywhere from thirty minutes to almost two hours. And I covered the whole range.     I was never a "car guy." I was a musician who viewed cars (and jobs) strictly as tools to get from one place to the other. I didn't care what I looked like getting there, only how I performed once I got there. Of course most of my jobs were pretty shitty so my cars were as well. I would buy a car, it would break down, I would miss work, G