Toward the middle of the week, Mike and I agreed that if Saturday was a halfway decent day we were going for a ride. Well, yesterday was about that. Halfway decent. We had sunshine, but coolish temps in the low 40’s and a southwesterly wind of 10-12 mph that was just annoyingly cold. Unlike our [...]
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January 28 Bike Ride
January 29, 2012Discretion is the better part of valor
September 5, 2011The Plan: To load our panniers for an overnight trip. Ride 60ish miles to Lebanon yesterday. Spend the night in a hotel, then come back today. However: I take my role as captain very seriously. Less than 10 miles into the trip, I decided there was no reason for a suffer-fest just for the sake [...]
60 miler
July 30, 2011You ever have one of those days where you know what you ought to do, but for some reason don’t do it? And pay for it later? That’s what happened to me today…I’ll get to that later. We left the house a little before 7:00 this morning to ride what we planned as a 60 [...]
Friday Mind Games
June 18, 2011For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking it was time to go ride B Highway between Rogersville and Northview. It’s a lovely ride, but one that takes a while to do and one that you need to work to since it is 50 miles that involves quite a bit of climbing. Yesterday proved [...]
A picnic
June 5, 2011Saturday morning, we got up and went for a picnic breakfast…if you can call it that. For some reason, I have trouble reconciling in my mind that it’s a picnic if you don’t pack up chicken and sandwiches from home, take them to a park someplace, and spread a blanket to enjoy them on. We [...]
