The hills in northern Maine farm country are arduous and ostensibly endless. You climb. Plateau. Climb. Possibly turn a corner and climb again. The well-deserved reward for this taxing endeavor is a panorama across pastoral fields to majestic Mount Katahdin. The roads, however, are narrow, without a bike lane, and the gravel ditch is close…
A 3-mile climb with an average grade of 7.5%, half of which is 11%, is formidable to say the least. Screaming quads aside, while ascending the unrelenting backside of Evans Notch not long ago, I pondered how far I’ve come as a cyclist. In almost 4,000 miles of pedaling this season, I have scaled over…
Riding a road bike gives one plenty of time for reflection. When the pandemic hit, resulting in the quick and subsequent shut down of life as we know it, my husband and I pulled out our road bikes. During those cool March days with snow still on some supposedly plowed roads, the focus was all…
The AEC industry has an overwhelmingly bad habit of talking about ourselves. From meetings with clients to quals packages to proposals to interviews, it’s all about us. Why is that? Building relationships is about give and take and creating a rapport. Yet, we tend, as an industry, to do the exact opposite. Are our firms…