Ross Catrow

  • What a great feeling to get back from a ride, open the shed to put your bike away, and find someone else in your family has taken their bike out on a ride, too! BIKES!

  • Sure sign you’re living in a post-apocalypse: Wearing wool fingerless gloves inside.

  • Chips for lunch is one of the greatest Catrow-family Christmas Eve traditions.

  • Almost every week I make a reference to this Circuit City commercial from the 90s. I just opened the paper and there it was!

  • I really, really enjoy Tressie McMillan Cottom‘s NYT newsletter:

    My great-grandmother was fond of reminding all of her children and their children of the two rules of giving: Always give better than you would buy for yourself, and never call attention to your giving.

  • Using the CDC’s v-safe post-vaccination check-in website is so pleasant. It’s one of my favorite tasks.

  • Walked out the door to meet the middle schoolers and they all shouted at me about a new bike rack that got installed at school today. I love that this was the first thing they wanted to tell me! 🚲

  • The Knockout Queen: A novel by Rufi Thorpe, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    Feels good to feel sad when it’s well-written. 📚

  • A few photos from the very excellent Pine Camp loop.

  • What kind of situations are people finding themselves in that they need to carry a flashlight each and every day?? Are that many people really cat burglars or private eyes?

  • Theory: Pen15 is a horror film.

  • The Richmond Times-Dispatch continues to have good framing when writing about Critical Race Theory:

    Among the more controversial policies Republicans pushed in the election was opposition to teaching of systemic racism and racial equity in K-12 schools. Republicans convey that position under the umbrella term “critical race theory.”

  • 60 miles of back-country roads and gravel on the single-speed!

  • 2022 goal: Do extreme bike stuff

  • A friend put it best: “Remember when we fired our coach and our interim head coach beat UVA and Hokie fans rushed the field in Charlottesville?”

  • Still waters on the James.

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  • I disturbed a feasting vulture on today’s bike ride. It took off, and we flew alongside each other for a good ten seconds. Gross / cool. 🚲

  • From the RPS superintendent:

    I am thrilled to share that–for the first time this school year–we have no COVID-19 cases to report today. Thank you for your diligence in helping keep our students, staff, and partners safe!

    😍

  • Every NextDoor preview email is a creative writing prompt in disguise.

  • Bikes make me feel like…

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  • From Richmond to Jamestown and back again…on a bike

    First time taking the new frame bag out on an adventure.

    The halfway point—about 57 miles in,

    This bag can store all sorts of things!

  • Never lost one to an inferno before

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  • I am 5'10".

  • Notes on tonight’s 20 miler:

    • Hospital Street will burst your heart
    • Drafted a car on Patterson Avenue
    • My ribs are still a little sore after eating shit this past weekend on my mountain bike

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