Donald's Daily Draft

March 2008 - Posts

• Special Package from Dr. Ruth…

  As many of you may know, I work in the news business.  So, we get a lot of promotional items sent directly to us.  Organizations, public relations or marketing firms pitch their products and books hoping you’ll give them some coverage.  Well, here’s their coverage:  Today, I got a FedEx package in the newsroom and was [...] Posted Mar 25 2008, 11:10 AM by Donald's Daily Draft Filed under: Training, Cycle-arious

• Great Message… whoever created it?

  I found this in my weekly email from RoadBikeRider.com:  There’s a flap in England about an ingenious video called “Do the Test.” It was produced for Transport for London as a way to raise awareness of cyclists on the road. Nice idea, but it’s charged that the concept for the video was stolen. According to Carlton Reid at bikebiz.com, [...] Posted Mar 24 2008, 07:36 AM by Donald's Daily Draft Filed under: Training, Cycling News

• Save The Horseplay…

  Buffoonery, clowning, fooling around, high jinks, romping, roughhousing… all terms used to define horseplay. Horseplay can be had in a lot of places but I think we can all agree that road biking, escpecially a group ride, should not be one of them. We all have a lot of fun on rides and we all joke [...] Posted Mar 20 2008, 09:46 AM by Donald's Daily Draft Filed under: Training

• Future Tour Contender?

  Last week, we welcomed our second son Macauley.  Baby “Mac” is doing well and so is my hero, Jan, also known as my wife.  Many of you have asked about pictures.   So, here’s Mac with his big brother Troupe.  They are both miracles and we are truly blessed.  I’m loving the early days and certainly don’t want to rush [...] Posted Mar 17 2008, 09:57 AM by Donald's Daily Draft Filed under: Training

• I’m going to be a little busy…

  There’s a really good reason for me being a bit of a slacker lately on my blog.  I know I’ve been slow on posting as well as visting your sites. But I have a good excuse.  I’ve mentioned in comments on some of your blogs that we’re going to have a baby soon.  Well, the baby comes tomorrow! We are, of [...] Posted Mar 05 2008, 10:21 AM by Donald's Daily Draft Filed under: Training, Cycle-arious