Category: Cycling
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Monster Cookie — success!
So, the great recumbent roundup (aka, the Monster Cookie) was a rousing success. Kyle tried out his new high racer and got lots of looks. It’s a very unique, light (21 lbs) and fast bike. Both Kyle and I ended up doing a full century…100.4 miles to be exact. We padded about 18 on the…
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Let the cycling season begin
So I’m just about ready to head out and do the Salem Monster Cookie, a metric century (60 miles) that takes you from Salem, Oregon north towards Portland, OR. It’s a nice easy ride that’s always a fun way to kick off the riding season. As past practice, a few of us will be turning…
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Keeping your cycle rolling
Most folks know, I love cycling and am probably one of a relatively few number of folks that commutes any real distance that actually puts more miles on their bike than they do in their car. I was figuring it out last year: ~15,000 miles for the bike, ~10,000 miles for the car. 🙂 So when I…
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Kyle’s just nuts
I’ve been starting to look this upcoming summer and trying to decide which century and double century rides I’ll be participating in this summer. There a a few that I always ride in, like the Monster Cookie at the start of the year which is just a metric century and a good stretch of the…
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First frost
Ah, enjoyed the first frosty ride of the morning today. It was 37 degrees at my house and ~31-32 our on the highway (its actually interesting, I’ve found that temperature can vary by almost 10 degrees once you get out into the farmland) making the farm land a very sparkly white. Fortunately, I grabbed some…
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Daily commute
I’ve been playing with the Microsoft Live Writer and have been itching to include a map into one of my posts. So here’s a good one. Here’s a map of my daily commute — 50 miles, round-trip down hwy. 99. It’s actually a fantastic ride — with mostly courteous drivers (till you hit Corvallis anyway) —…
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Gone a blackberry pick’n
I was only a matter of time — but I finally broke down and took the family down to the coast to do some blackberry picking. You see, in riding my bike between Independence and Corvallis every day, I get to smell the blackberries along side the road. Now, I wouldn’t eat any of the…
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When things go ouch
This weekend, Kyle Banerjee and I drove down to Shasta for the Shasta Super Century. This is a 135 mile, 16,500 ft vertical gain ride the finished with a quad-burning ride up Mt. Shasta. This was a ride that I’d been looking forward too but apparently my body wasn’t. About 6 miles into the first…
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Just finished the STP (204 miles in one day)
Its late, actually early (Sunday morning) — but I just got back today from doing the STP. 204 miles of cycling fun taking you from Seattle to Portland. Lots of fun — me and my closest 9000 friends pack the streets of Seatle till you are able to create some space (by riding faster than…
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New Bike — sortof
Today, for the first time, I found myself on a recumbant. A friend of mine had one that he was able to setup for me and let me tool around in it as we took an extended ride. Definitely different. When I first got on, I couldn’t figure out how I was going to be…