Author: kartoone
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Canadian American data adventure – Part 2: the American Rockies
This blog tells the Idaho, Montana and Wyoming story of my 3757 mile data adventure riding home from Edmonton, Canada to my house in Hoover, Alabama while collecting videos, speeds and lateral passing distances for nearly 15,000 cars. The image above, similar to the first post (covering Days 1-4), is not my favorite – but…
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Skyway Epic 2025
For many years I’ve viewed cycling as a time machine, but that view has always been external … the awe and excitement of finding cool, old, abandoned long forgotten things like roads and bridges sometimes in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of chaos and modern mostly unsustainable infrastructure. One thing that…
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Adventure to find an adventurer
Still planning on finishing up the write-up about my Canadian adventure soon, but in the meantime I’ve had another adventure finding a true adventurer – Peter Frank – who is currently 3/4 of the way through 6000 miles on the Great Loop by canoe. I tried to find Peter when he was near Columbus, MS…
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Canadian American data adventure summary – Part 1: Canadian writeup
To avoid the risk of never getting around to writing up about my 3757 mile data adventure ride from Edmonton, Canada to Hoover, Alabama, I’m going to go ahead and post this with a stream of consciousness recap and split this up into a few different posts. This one is the Canadian summary, which was…
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A Canadian-American Data Adventure
Tomorrow is the big day! The featured post image above is a map of my 4,173 mile route from Edmonton, Canada to Hoover, Alabama riding in two Canadian provinces, and 14 American states. The goal is 1) adventure and 2) data … so I am calling this my Canadian-American Data Adventure. I am raising funds…
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2024 statistics and maps
I used to call this post my “season statistics” or “season summary” in reference to the cycling racing season. I would calculate all my statistics from December 1 of the prior year to November 30th of the current year. This was based on the Eddie Borysewicz cycling training book called “Bicycle Road Racing”, from which…
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A weather adventure commute to Virginia
Intended route – 885 miles from Hoover, AL to Staunton, VA w/ ~50k ft climbingActual route – 760 miles from Hoover to Staunton w/ 44k ft climbing At the end of September, Hurricane Helene strengthened rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and then came ashore in a rural part of the gulf coast of Florida…
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Finishing Arkansas
After 22 rides covering 4,347 miles and 173,193 feet of climbing across 130 counties in 10 different states, I have finished riding in all the counties in Arkansas! Just under 2,500 miles of those rides was within the state of Arkansas. Yes, that’s right, I did 22 rides that had at least some small part…
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The Rift 2024
What an amazing experience this race was. I came into the race doing it mostly to have a reason to visit Iceland. I was surprised by how challenging and perfect and awesome the race itself actually was. There is a reason why more and more people keep signing up for this race with this year’s…
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Demon Copperhead, Spring Break 2024
TLDR – I rode my bike 903 miles from the mountains of Virginia down to the birthplace of flight – Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and then back across to Lee County, Virginia where the title story takes place. It rained a lot, from start to finish, with a few extended breaks that were great, but…