Category: Training
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2011 End of the Season Epic
Me at the turnaround point on the ride – the highest point on the blue ridge parkway 2011 End of the season epic ride – route with categorized climbs labeled 2011 End of the season epic ride elevation profile Quick summary Awesome ride. I was aiming for about 9 hours on this ride (wall-clock time),…
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Beautiful fall ride … strava kom style!
View of Double Oak from AL-25 (photo from a March 2005 ride) 2011-10-01 Vandiver KOM ride What a beautiful fall day today with temps never even making it out of the 60s! I had set aside today to take back a KOM that is one of my favorites here in Birmingham – the Vandiver KOM…
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Six Gap Century Ride Report
Here is the detailed ride report from Six Gap … looking for power/heartrate or quick summary … look no further than this previous post! Saturday – Analise’s morning soccer game got cancelled so I spent a leisurely morning working on a Nintendo balance board research project. My friend Brad Mabry picked me up around 11:30…
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2011 Six Gap Century
What a fun experience to ride the Six Gap Century 15 years after I first rode it in 1996. Fifteen years ago, there were about 200 riders assembled at the North Georgia College campus gymnasium to head out of town to tackle six mountains. On the very first climb, we rode from a sunny valley…
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Tropical Storm Lee flooding photos
Yesterday, the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee blew right through Birmingham transitioning into what our local forecaster, James Spann, called “the perfect storm” as it turned into an extratropical storm when it collided with a low pressure system just north of us. We ended up with almost 8 inches of rain and some pretty amazing…
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Tuesday Worlds power map / Golden Cheetah question
My schedule was freed up enough for me to ride the Tuesday Worlds ride tonight leaving from Bob’s Bikes. Great people, great ride, great training. Definitely makes for a very colorful power map thanks to Golden Cheetah (excellent software). I’ll write up more about Golden Cheetah when I have time, but I am wondering if…
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Crossroads Classic maps
We just got back from a longer than expected trip that included 5 days of racing, 2 days of riding in the mountains, and one funeral (in Florence). One of the things I like about TopoCreator, which I am trying to rush into a real beta phase this week, is the ability to overlay a…
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Sassafras Mountain
South Carolina mountains annotated My grandmother died on Saturday, and since we were already in South Carolina when we found out, we decided to stay here until the funeral on Wednesday. Today I went for a ride up Sassafras Mountain that brought back lots and lots of memories. The last time I did this ride…
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July training and racing
Back from our long trip to Wisconsin to visit family and race the 2011 Tour of America’s Dairyland, we have settled into a really nice routine back here in Birmingham. In the mornings, Kristine goes for a run while I am still waking up and feeding the kids breakfast watching the live coverage of the…
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1,000,000 ft on the way into church
1,000,000 ft route – click to enlarge – climbs annotated Elevation profile for today’s commute to church (click to enlarge) On this ride into church this morning, I reached 1,000,000 ft of climbing for the year. I marked the map with a red X where I think I was at the time. I guess I…