With 3-100 mile completions under my non-existent belt (with hips like these, you don’t need a belt!) this year, you would think that I would finally have the secret to eating and feeling OK at the end of a ride. Yet, after Patriots in October, I was still celebrating my 100 mile accomplishments by vomiting […] more

With my vast experience in partially producing a single website – that isn’t completed yet – I present to you “Melinda’s 10-ish step guide to creating a website”! 1. Decide you want to produce a website. Mull it over for a couple of months. Decide that it really can’t be harder than creating a power […] more

Phase 1 of the website is completed! Goals of Phase 1 were:*Get SOMETHING up there that is the basic skeleton of the site*Make it possible for people to start ordering boots *Get some information on the site about the boots so that people I’m talking to and referring to the site have a place to […] more

Now I’m sure all of you were wondering why I didn’t post the other day. We will ignore the fact that my posts have not been as predicatable lately as in the past and I will pretend you’all were on the edge of your seats wondering WHY I didn’t have an enlightening, or at the […] more

Ines graciously offered to trot out Farley for all the vet checks during my 100. This gave me the opportunity to observe Farley during her trot outs and see the vet checks from the perspective of the vet, rather than the person on the end of the lead rope. I learned 2 things #1 – […] more

More pictures because saying “these are the pics from loop 1 – repeat 6x” really isn’t sufficient to share the wonders of Farley’s THIRD 100 this year, and my ONE THOUSAND MILES with my readers! Heading out to loop 2. I had hoped to remove rain gear at SOME point….but obviously it was not to […] more

I haven’t decided how to present the Lake Almanor story, so in the meantime, enjoy the pictures! My crew and friend, I* is a private person, and to respect that privacy I am not posting pictures that show her face….so if there seems to be this person that is in ALL the pics but you […] more