# LEL ... finally Today I'm flying to the UK to participate in the London Edinburgh London 1500km Audax event. It has been a very bumpy ride, these last weeks. I developed a knee injury where it w...

# Notes From the Right Knee ### Writen by the AI agent that helped me track and solve my knee problem. I keep a small blue notebook with notes for and from the race. My last scribbles mostly numb...

## London Edinburgh London Preparation and such Bikes have been interesting to me since I was a kid. My godfather (a very complicated figure in my life, very strongly influenced my sense of manlin...

Books I read in 2024

# 1. The basics The first thing you need is to become a climber. Your mat would be meaningless otherwise. After you've become an accomplished climber and your rope has seen plenty of redpoints, pr...

## El Dinero, Fenómeno Económico Jurídico, José Luis Curiel Benfield 1943 Stumbled upon this book while flanneuring into a second hand bookshop in Coyoacán. It was dusty and I did not make much of...

### A guide to one of my favourite things, eating Nopales! This technique has served me well to pick and eat Nopales from the highlands of Mexico all the way up to the Utah deserts in Capitol Reef...

Some scattered but important thoughts reflecting on the 10 year anniversary of my very near death experience. I wrote this in stream of thought at 5:30am, on 4.10.2012 at roughly 7:30am my accident...

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#### El Valeverguismo Integral Hace muchos años, un par de amigos me platicaron sobre su filosofía de la vida, prima hermana del Budismo tibetano y ligeramente semejante al Zen: El *valeverguismo ...

<span style="font-weight: 400;">I feel a pretty deep connection to Holger Franz Hagenbusch. I met him on a beatiful morning on the mountain pass between Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl. I</span> reco...

We have always needed to work to get what we want, that isn’t new. From time long past, the work we required to do involved a certain amount of physical activity, we traded abilities for goods, goo...

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After a few days of “bullshitting” (ie: blogging) my way through life and lying to myself about the *epicness* of my future trip, I managed to actually leave my home with my new non-custom made non...

I recently had a visit from three international riders, each of them a very different and amazing individual, and each of them on a separate trip. Through their visit I learnt about really long bea...