Category: Training
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Skyway Epic plus Alabama’s Newest Cat 2 climb
I might use “epic” a few times in this post… Today was epic x3, starting with my commute into work climbing up South Cove Dr inspired by the Dirty Dozen film I watched last night describing an annual ride that goes up Pittsburgh’s toughest climbs. Then after finishing teaching, I headed back home climbing up…
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iBike, youBike, weAllBike
iBike graph for my entire ride – annotated from within iBike (click to enlarge) Happy days are here again as I have remounted my iBike Dash with Power. Props to the good folks at iBike who repaired a broken enclosure bracket on my iBike Dash device and a broken LCD screen on my iBike Gen…
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Maps from Cheaha
I forgot to post the maps I made for the weekend of riding … if you are curious about the topography of the entire area, then download the super hires ultra resolution (20MB) map of my Cheaha ride (the last map). Three days, just under 300 miles of riding Read my ride recaps and see…
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Cheaha weekend wrap-up
While Kristine finished up her work yesterday at Fort McClellan, I biked home to Birmingham from our hotel in Oxford by way of Mount Cheaha. I climbed Cheaha three different ways — including a new Cat 2 climb starting at the low point on the Adam’s Gap side and climbing all the way to the…
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Exploring, climbing, riding the Oxford-Jacksonville ridge line
Riding today was easily the most fun I’ve had on the bike in four or five years. Considering how much I love to ride all the time, that really is saying a lot about my ride today. I guess the thing that strikes me the most is how many times I was just flat out…
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Cheaha Weekend Kickoff
Kristine is working this weekend in Anniston, and the kids both have sleepover tonight and tomorrow night – so that makes for the perfect getaway weekend for some training in the mountains of east Alabama. After class today, I headed on a climbing route along the Shades Mountain ridge northeast of Birmingham all the way…
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Hoover – Vestavia Hills 10,000ft
Annotated panoramic view from Vestavia Hills Baptist church (click to zoom in and read the captions) Garmin elevation profile – 60 miles,10,000+ ft of climbing Garmin – max speed 57.5mph(South Cove Dr) Out of the three 10,000ft rides so far this week (Red Mountain 1200s on Tuesday, South Shades Crest climbs on Wednesday), today was…
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South Shades Crest climbs
Overview map showing the entire Shades Mountain ridge line highlighted in red (click to zoom in) Complete Shades Mountain topography annotated (click for super-hi res 12MB version) Shades Mountain is one of my favorite mountains in Birmingham. After climbing 10,000 ft on Red Mountain yesterday (Tuesday), I didn’t want Shades Mountain to feel left out…
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Red Mountain 1200s – revisited
After riding out to see firsthand yesterday’s tornado damage, I decided to go climb my favorite spots on Red Mountain that have an elevation greater than 1200ft because I spent a lot of time yesterday looking at the topo maps of the far northern end of Red Mountain near Chalkville and Clay. I call all…
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Chalkville Tornado Damage
Red cross shelter information here: http://newsroom.redcross.org/2012/01/23/press-release-red-cross-assessing-damage-from-severe-weather-overnight/ Donate through the red cross “donate now” Or I saw a drop-off location for donations in the K-Mart located just off I-59, exit 141, turn left, K-mart parking lot on the right as you are climbing the hill on Chalkville Rd Tornado sirens went off at 3:30AM this morning…