SCCC ride from Pacific Grove to Carmel
Monday, June 9th, 2008Delightful ride, easy pace, great company.
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Delightful ride, easy pace, great company.
Fast At Tahoe Century
Thursday, June 5th, 2008On Sunday Lisa and I rode 'America's Most Beautiful Bike Ride'. Lisa went around Lake Tahoe, completing 72 miles while I added the Truckee extension making it a century. We started out at the same time, and finished within a few minutes of each other :) I was very happy with ...
Strawberry Fields Forever
Monday, May 19th, 2008On Sunday I rode one of the local Santa Cruz century rides. It starts in Watsonville and winds up to Summit, back down to Soquel and then around Aromas, back to Watsonville. I saw several people riding the 100 mile version on unicycles: Apologies for the poor image quality. It was taken ...
Amazing looking house
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Rode from home to San Jose today, meeting Lisa at our friends house. Lisa had ridden the Cinderella metric century earlier the same day. It was the first time I'd ridden over the hill, and I babied my strained knee. I took Mountain Charley Road, knowing it's one of the hills ...
El Tour De Tucson finished
Friday, November 23rd, 2007I'm thrilled to have finished the ride. It was a truly inspiring time and the spectators really made it special. They were cheering us on and singling out the TNT riders for special attention. My final time was 6 hours 51 minutes, which was slower than I was hoping for. I'm ...
80 miles, new bike
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Saturday Nov 3rd was our final training ride before El Tour De Tucson. 83 miles around Almaden valley. I completed the ride in about 5 hours, and I'm pretty happy with that. The time doesn't include the 4 flats we got (2 mine, 2 Seth's). Lisa did fine and we now consider ...
60 miles around Sunol and Calaveras
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007My earlier leg cramps having resolved themselves, I rejoined the group on Sunday October 7th for a spectacular ride starting out in Milpitas and heading North West into the rolling hills.
Tandem, recumbent
Monday, September 10th, 2007Lisa and I went to Fort Collins over labor day weekend to visit our good friends Suki and Greg. Not wanting to miss a training ride I decided to combine cycling with two new experiences: riding a recumbent and riding a tandem. I'd heard that recumbent riding is quite different to ...
45 miles
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Our training ride today was intended to be 45 miles through Almaden valley. Unfortunately because of the fires to the south, it was decided we'd ride north from Almaden instead. The ride was consequentially choppy with many stops, pauses to consult the route plan and general discussion while riding. A ...
First Team Ride
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Based on the time trials last week we went out in groups of about 7 riders plus a coach. I was thrilled and a little surprised to find myself in the fastest group. There are other riders participating that certainly look faster than me (or at least, they have better ...