Author: kartoone
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TD 2022 – Day 2 – June 12th, 2022 – Eureka, Montana to a Montana Hilton in the Flathead National Forest via miles of beautiful winter scenes in SUMMER
Yes, I know that summer technically doesn’t start until June 20th. Sure, sure, but our summer starts by the beginning of May way down in Alabama. So for me, June 12th feels like the middle of summer. If you go far enough north and high enough into the mountains, though, you start to appreciate that…
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TD 2022 – Day 1 – Fernie, British Columbia, Canada to Eureka, Montana, USA
“Hi Brian, all I need is to see your passport,” said the US border patrol agent as I rolled up ahead of Theo. I dug in my backpack not registering that he already knew my name until I showed it to him and he wished me “good luck”. As I pulled away, I realized he…
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TD2022 – Day 0 – Banff, Alberta, Canada to Fernie, British Columbia, Canada
I will come back to this video later, but this is about 40 miles into the race, and it really captures the jaw dropping nature of the scenery. Really, the first 300 miles of the race had scenery similar to this … or we were climbing up and over the snow on one of the…
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Tour Divide 2022 plus home via Uvalde and Santa Fe
Let’s start out with a quick TLDR – my adventure totaled 4,077 miles with 2,715 miles of that being my 11th place finish (see pic above) in the 2022 Tour Divide southbound grand depart taking 18 days and 11 hours to complete over 16 rides. The remaining 1,362 miles included a 1,044 mile crossing of…
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Three Rivers Way, the tree-fall edition
Here is the link if you want to zoom in on the map above. It’s 7500px image (width) so it may take a while to download and open: https://toonecycling.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/annotated-heatmap.jpg Summary The Three Rivers Way (Vista 300) race was awesome again this year. I’ve called it the “tree-fall” edition because there was a noticeable increase in…
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Skyway Epic 2022 – 10 years of Skyway
Always hard, always epic. This year’s skyway was no exception. Most people try to get better over the years. I’m OK with continuing to see my results decline because that means more and more strong, competitive people are finding this amazing race created and brought into being by Brent Marshall and continuing to grow under…
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“Plan B Windy” – COLD Mid-Alabama High Point Ride
It has been a very busy start to the semester, so I haven’t been able to ride much. This Saturday afforded the opportunity to go for a long ride, but the weather was not looking great – cold with temps dropping down into the teens and then staying near freezing all day … and very…
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Finishing Georgia
With 159 counties, Georgia has about 30 counties more than Alabama and Florida combined. In fact, it’s second only to Texas for the most counties in the entire US. This explains why instead of being the second or third state I finished, it ended up being the fourth state despite being the state I ride…
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Finishing Florida (and Mississippi)
I started this post in February of this year right after what turned out to be a ridiculously cold ride in Mississippi to finish off the last counties I needed to have ridden in all the counties in the state. The ride started out cold in the mid 20s for nearly the first 100 miles…
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TNGA 2021 – plus year-to-year comparison
This was my fourth year completing the TNGA. The first two years were part of the grand depart, and the second two years were as ITTs either earlier in the summer (2020) or a few days after the grand depart (2021). I’ve made a few tables below to compare the TNGAs and will build upon…