Training Log – July 16

The wedding is over. We’re back in town.  Today I met Yeshaya Ballon down in Palo Alto for a training ride. Turns out we already knew each other from my startup days when he was on the project we sold in the construction industry. So we reconnected in a completely different, and much more spiritual, context.  Small world story #1.

 We rode about 22 miles on the Palo Alto “loop”. Including up some hills.  For me, going down hill is  bigger challenge.  Have to get used to staying relaxed and not freaking out going over 25 mph on the downhill glide.

Then Nigel Savage, executive director of Hazon, and Judith Belasco (no guarantees on the spelling) who runs the food related programs, arrived.  I was able to confirm that Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz, Hazon coordinator of Outdoor Jewish Adventures, is in fact the daughter of Deborah Prinz and Mark Hurvitz, who I attended HUC and was ordained with.  Small World Story#2.

Yeshaya and I agreed we would form a bay area team.  We have to think of a name, and once we see if a couple of interested riders join the team, I will contact the “J” and see if we can get a story done, and all share in whatever funds that raises.

Yeshaya had recently returned from a week of intensive Jewish study where one of his teachers was Elliot Ginsburg.  Elliot and I know each other from USY, and overlapped in attending University of Illinois.  Smal World Story#3