Josh Kornbluth

Josh Kornbluth

Alone Time

I am venturing out on a new path.– No, that doesn’t quite sound right. I am taking the road not taken.– That’s worse. Well, here’s the thing: for the first time, I’m doing regular cycling training on my own, rather than within the warm, protective embrace of my Team In Training teammates. Alone time is … Read more

Uneasy Rider

I’m going to be participating in my fifth — and sixth! — endurance cycling events this summer with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training (TNT).  On June 5 I’ll be biking around Lake Tahoe for the second time (100 miles, including and out-and-back to Truckee), and then on July 16 I’ll be pedaling … Read more

Driving Mr. Kornbluth

On Sunday I drove a car by myself for the first time in my life.  It was exhilarating!  It was scary! We just started doing back-to-back training (bike) rides on Saturdays and Sundays, as we prepare for our mid-August, two-day, 188-mile event — and I’d found that BART didn’t leave from Berkeley early enough on Sunday … Read more

Lessons Learned

Lesson one from this week: Never — never! — eat a big meal of Indian food the night before a training ride.  Late on Friday evening I had a delicious chicken-curry dinner from a local Indian eatery.  The next morning, about 10 minutes before our 8:30 a.m. “buddy ride” was to begin, I had a literally … Read more