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Win a Nuu-Muu! (I Heart Nuu-Muus)
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Come summer I live in a Nuu-Muu. That’s the adorable-and-practical little exercise dress made by some great women based in Bellingham, Washington. Made for you to move in, so they dry quickly if you sweat or if you put them on over a wet swimsuit, and cute enough for you to walk into ...
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Bike to Work Week 2013: Quite a Change
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For the past 5 years of my life (and more, actually–starting with our first Spokane organizing meetings in Nov. 2007), Bike to Work Week has been a major highlight (and workload) of my volunteer life as a bike advocate. So now that I’m working full-time in bike advocacy what di ...
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30 Days of Biking April 2013: Final Report
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Setting up the goal (and links to those previous April outcomes): 30 Days of Biking April 2013: Yes We Can! First couple of weeks: 30 Days of Biking April 2013: Almost Halfway Ride Report, 34.4 miles Made it through week 3: 30 Days of Biking: 9 Days to Go, 8.64 miles Heading to the finish ...
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It Is Always Better to Ride than Not to Ride
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The tough part of 30 Days of Biking for me isn’t the workdays–those rides are long-established habit. The tough part is the weekend. That’s the point, really. It’s easy to settle into habits of whatever kind and committing to doing something every single day will sh ...
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30 Days of Biking 2013: Yes We Can!
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I’ve had an up-and-down relationship with 30 Days of Biking. This biking community-building event, now in its fourth year, asks one simple thing: ride your bike every day. Sometimes my up-and-down with this event refers to a day that involves a lot of hills. Sometimes it refers to ...
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Not Even Fully Loaded: Another Grocery Run
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Just how much can you haul on a bike ride to the grocery store? Depends on how many bags you have! When we lived in Spokane the grocery store nearest our house was just over 1.5 miles away uphill, which meant I got to race downhill fully loaded when I made a grocery run via [...]
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5 Behavior and Culture Hacks to Get People to Ride Bikes and Walk
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Serendipity gives me lots of blog fodder, in this case the coincidence of reading a piece on GOOD about how to get people to eat less meat within 24 hours of being directed to the elevators inside the Cannon Office Building on Capitol Hill during the 2013 National Bike Summit.* Let me ...
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Personal Advantages and Bicycling: How I Really Started Riding
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A few weeks ago I had the wonderful opportunity to give the luncheon keynote address at a conference on Equity and Health in Transportation, put on by the Seattle-King County Public Health District and held in Tacoma. This came at a good time, as it let me express some ideas that have been ...
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Win a Nuu-Muu! (I Heart Nuu-Muus)

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Come summer I live in a Nuu-Muu. That’s the adorable-and-practical little exercise dress made by some great women based in Bellingham, Washington. Made for you to move in, so they dry quickly if you sweat or if you put them on over a wet swimsuit, and cute enough for you to walk into lots of [...]

Bike to Work Week 2013: Quite a Change

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For the past 5 years of my life (and more, actually–starting with our first Spokane organizing meetings in Nov. 2007), Bike to Work Week has been a major highlight (and workload) of my volunteer life as a bike advocate. So now that I’m working full-time in bike advocacy what did I do the first two [...]

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