Paula hammered to finish her report cards so we could skip out of town early Friday. Destination: St. George, Utah. It was primarily a family visit, and the first time in some time that all of my siblings have been together. Pretty special just for that, but I also managed to ride every day. First [...]
After spending the first part of the week working out on the road (with eventual trail reward), I decided to flex the technical muscles. This meant climbing my brains out on Gnat’s Ass trail. I had a good run, but my 36t granny cog (100% necessary on this climb for weaklings like me) still slipped [...]
The sun sets. Time to attach lights and ride out from the house. The crew, led by Mark Flint, pedals past on the river trail. I catch up. The bats fly. Right on schedule. A ghost rider coasts through the Sunrise Rd. culvert. Jobie followed me on the B-lines, and rode most of them despite [...]
I decided to try my luck at the GR Time Trial. It’s decidedly not an endurance time trial — the best time so far was: “climb time” 27 minutes 30 seconds “final time” 43 minutes 30 seconds Making the descend time 16 minutes I found myself pedaling up the Catalina Highway. I may or may [...]
I finally put away the book of excuses and rode out to Paula’s school for our Friday Sweetie ride. This is the only thing preventing Paula from a nearly traffic free (14 mile!) commute to work: (the Santa Cruz River) I crossed it, but I’m not sure I’d want to do it every day. Instead [...]
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