Tag: eddington
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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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TD 2022 – Days 7-8 – June 17-18th, 2022 – Idaho Park, ID to Pinedale, WY via a “Falute” Eddington 250
The day started out cold but with a beautiful sunrise over many flooded fields of flowers leaving Idaho as pictured above (39 degF and I had to hike/ride through that water in my sandals), traversed many flat miles of powerline ATV trails, merged with the Great Western Trail (rails-to-trail) for only a few miles, and…
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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…