Sharry Miller

Fireweed 400 - Headwinds, Sidewinds, but No Tailwinds

It's been a week since the 2014 Fireweed 400, a series of 50-400 mile races and one non-race 2Day300K ride. Earlier this spring I'd decided to challenge myself by riding the last of those, what I keep calling the "tourist class" of the Fireweed: ~200 miles in two days. The first day is 110 miles from Sheep Mountain Lodge on the Glenn Highway to Tonsina Lodge on the Richardson Highway. The second day is about... Read more →

Fireweed 400 - What the Heck am I Thinking?

The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Such experiences are not necessarily pleasant at the time they occur. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in Flow I'm having a crisis of faith...in myself. Yesterday I drove 160 miles round trip to ride Madeleine somewhere other than on the same stretch of highway out of Valdez. I parked at Squirrel... Read more →

Tracking Progress

Hmm, I'm pretty sure I don't like standard calculators for determining what you should weigh. They're depressing. A friend posted on Facebook this morning that she'd lost 53 pounds since her gastric bypass surgery two months ago and had officially fallen below the "obese" category in the body mass index (BMI) charts. Just for fun, I thought I'd see where the almost-35 pounds I've lost in the last five months had gotten me. Still obese.... Read more →

Hatcher Pass Love

It was a dark and stormy night. No, wait, that's a different story. I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright) sunshiny day. It's gonna be a bright (bright) bright (bright) sunshiny day. ~Jimmy Cliff, "I Can See Clearly Now" Yeah, that's better. That's definitely more like it was... Read more →