Category: Training
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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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A tale of weather, Sir Arthur Eddington, counties, and Pike’s Peak
TLDR Adventure 1 – Thanksgiving – I attempted a 550 mile out/back-ish (tight loop) from Birmingham to Panama City Beach and back to record my own GPS data for Washington and Bay counties in Florida. The ride was going to be split into 265 miles there and 285 miles back for back-to-back Eddington 256 rides.…
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The Road to Paris
I had intended to document my training and everything leading up to my Paris Brest Paris (PBP) adventure a bit more, but life has gotten so busy. I’m going to use this post as a “reverse order” summary of the journey leading up to PBP. TLDR Paris Brest Paris is only held once every four…
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Six State Graceland 600k++
This ride started and ended in the land of the delta blues with a lot of delta blues in the middle, too — but no pouring rain. Instead, it was beautiful dry weather with a wind blowing pretty strong behind me as I headed north. Unfortunately, the wind did not die down much during the…
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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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Ride4Gabe 5.0 – Hoover, AL to Durango, CO
Photos! I have a ton of them from the trip. You can quickly scroll through the thumbnails and see some of my captions on my pickuta website by clicking on the link below: https://pickuta.com/album/226 BACKGROUND – RIDE 4 GABE v1, v2, v3, and v4 I met Gabe Griffin and his family back in 2014 during…
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Three Rivers Way plus the Cheaha Challenge Ultra
Buckle in folks. This one is going to be long. Some quick background first: Kim Murrell is a well respected mastermind behind a number of bikepacking routes all over the southeast. She coordinates the grand depart for the Three Rivers Way bikepacking race each May. A lot of times this conflicts with the Cheaha Challenge,…
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One to go, one to go, one to go!
UPDATE 3/20/21! After I started writing this blog, I hit lifetime eddington 200 today on my ride to the NICA race pre-ride, but when I first started writing the blog a couple weeks ago, I still had “one to go”. One of my most successful racing disciplines was criteriums. I could use strategy and positioning…