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Mystery solved
I can't say that I'm surprised, though it did take me a while to put it all together. I think it started when I said that I was thinking about getting a coach. Emails that took a few days to come back....
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Nice post on group riding skills...
If you ride in a group, you've probably had the experience of riding with people who don't know the etiquette of a group ride. Or maybe you've been that person who didn't know the etiquette.Either way,...
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Yelling at car drivers...
While bicycles don't have horns, I do have some decent lungs, and every once and a while I'll yell *HEY* loudly at a car driver to get their attention before they do something stupid. It works often...
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A close escape, and more on inappropriate cleverness
Monday I went on the 7 hills ride.Wednesday night, I wrote a long and detailed post about it, and hit the "Post" button.In a fit of editorial brilliance, my blog server chose that exact moment to...
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Carmichael Training Systems Review
Carmichael Training Systems "Classic" Reviewwww.trainright.comThis spring, I decided to pony up some money for a real training plan, rather than the "just ride" approach that I've used in the past. I...
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STP 2006 - one day
T- 2.5 days:It's the Wednesday before STP. STP is the biggest cycling event in the Seattle area, in which 9000 riders will leave from Seattle, hoping to reach Portland under their own power. Most will...
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Summits of Bothell 2006
Yesterday I rode the Summits of Bothell. Like its more popular cousin to the south, S (I'm not a big fan of "cute" acronyms so I'm not going to use it...) is a ride focused around hills, originally 7...
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Fun with a ISU Inclinometer
For a while now, you've been able to buy digital levels. Amazingly, they will display angles within 0.1 degree.As some of you know, I've been on a quest for a good way of mapping hills, and I found...
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SIR Mountain Populaire 2006
Today, I rode the Mountain Populaire 100K, put on by the Seattle International Randonneurs.Randonneuring is a long-distance cycling discipline that originated in France (hence the name) way back in the...
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Studious sloth
Yesterday, I had the chance to go on the Kitsap Kolor Klassic (really, the Kitsap Color Classic), but I didn't. Excuses were proffered and accepted. I was tired from all the rides I'd done. I needed to...
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Tour of the Evergreens
There's a group organized to put on a yearly stage race in Washington State. Tour of the EvergreensThey're looking for some donations to help make it happen, and for help designing a logo.This will be...
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Cycling 2006 and 2007
I spent some time playing around with my Polar Software to get some summaries for the last year. Here's some data.2006 Cycling SummaryDistance: 2540 milesElevation Gain: 109,259 ftAverage Speed:...
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A short little ride
I wrote about the Seattle Randoneeur group last fall when they did the Populaire. And I think I probably wrote something about the relative insanity of riding a 1000K course.So, how about 2519 miles in...
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This too will come to pass...
This year, I got into RAMROD (though it should more correctly be named "Ride on the Eastside of Mount Rainier in One Day because the roads are washed out" - I guess ROTEMROD isn't terribly catchy...),...
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7 hills (+4) and 29 undulations of Kirkland, 2007 edition
Today I did my first hard ride of the year, the 11-hill version 58-mile "metric century" 7 hills ride. Last year I did CTS training, and while it did great for my aerobic endurance, I didn't think it...
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Cycling information...
For a while I've been toying with the idea of writing more about cycling than I have in the past - as I seem to have developed a passion for the sport - but too much of any one thing isn't good in a...
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