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Uncategorized by Gloria LiuMay 17, 2013March 3, 2014

Neon

“When you win a race, for a few seconds it’s like you’re plugged in to the Earth’s circuitry. You’re neon – it’s like Vegas, baby.” -D.

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuMay 15, 2013September 8, 2013

I arrived at work this morning to find out that one of my good friends here just quit his job and decided to move to Turkey, for a girl. We’d hung out over the weekend with no mention of this. Literally within the past 48 hours he’d made up his mind, bought his ticket, and […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuApril 26, 2013March 3, 2014

1:30 Easy

I remembered that at the core of the training, the racing, and the morphing into a Lycra clad freak with shiny legs, is something very pure and simple – the love of riding a bike. I pedaled, and coasted and smiled because it was still just as fun as it was when I was 7 […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuApril 15, 2013March 3, 2014

Long Ride @ Heil

I don’t know if they did work on Heil Valley Ranch, if I’m getting to be a better rider, or if this is just the difference of going from a 2002 Kona Bear to a 2013 Yeti carbon ASR5… probably a little of all three. Stellar 4.5 hour ride today. I was cooked to a […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuApril 13, 2013August 27, 2013

First Time

It’s the morning of my first bike race. I go through my typical morning routine – routine will you free, they say. I’m careful not to eat anything I wouldn’t typically eat so I have the breakfast that’s been my usual the last couple weeks. Two pieces of toast with jam, two eggs sunny side […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuApril 9, 2013June 19, 2014

Magnetism

She couldn’t explain it, but when she met him, she felt like she had met a piece of her destiny. There was something so familiar about him, like they had met before – and walking away from him felt like a mistake, every time. In fact a couple of times she had gone back with […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuApril 8, 2013August 27, 2013

It Didn’t Exactly Go as Planned

“The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry.” -John Steinbeck When it comes to my latest adventures, nothing has gone as planned. A few weeks ago, a ski trip to A-Basin that Kelsey and I had been planning for weeks got derailed when Kelsey slept through her alarm and I ended […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuApril 2, 2013August 27, 2013

Deja Vu

“I’m just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes…over and over.”

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuMarch 27, 2013March 3, 2014

The King of Road Trips

Today I thought about the road trip I took in New Zealand after the ski season was done. I had bought this 1992 Subaru Outback there for $1200 that we called Martha, and me and my now-boyfriend, and 2 of our good guy friends took a 3.5-week long road trip through the South Island in […]

Uncategorized by Gloria LiuMarch 25, 2013August 27, 2013

Going Long

…Ironman long, Dean Karnazes long, Race Across America long; going lengths on your own power that are further than most people care to drive – is a big middle finger to the rat race – proof that we’re not all robots on auto-drive, taking the easiest way through life.