Pam and I got out and capped our week of bike commuting with a 28 mile ride to Strafford Saturday morning, giving us 147 tandem miles for the week! Now it’s time for Pam to take a well-deserved rest! She had some family obligations in the afternoon, so we hit the road at 8:00 am. [...]
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Saturday tandem loop to Strafford
May 21, 2012Saturday afternoon
May 1, 2012I’ll admit, after our mini duathlon on Saturday morning, I was a little nervous about heading out for another 50 miles that same afternoon with Mike. In the back of my mind, I had planned our ride with a bail-out point or so if I needed. Thankfully, I didn’t. We initially headed south into a [...]
January 28 Bike Ride
January 29, 2012Toward 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 [...]
Discretion 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 [...]
