Tag: epic
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Unbound XL 2026 Race Report
TLDR 48th place out of 237 with only 60 people finishing. 356 miles in 32hr 37min (10.93mph). Since I rode to the start and back to the hotel afterwards, my own Strava data has me at 366 miles with a moving time of exactly 30 hours with a moving average speed of 12.2mph. The first…
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Spring Break 2026, Finishing Maryland and Delaware via the DELMARVA Loop
What an adventure! I had planned a three day, 780 mile loop starting in Petersburg, Virginia circumnavigating the entire Chesepeake Bay, including a traversal of the entire DELMARVA (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) peninsula. Additionally, Day 4 would be a 275 mile inner loop starting and ending in Petersburg to explore the peninsulas on the western shore…
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Canadian American data adventure – Part 3: the Midwest
This blog tells the story of riding the rest of the way across Nebraska into states I hadn’t even been planning on being anywhere near when I set out from Canada over 2000 miles before this section even starts! TLDR Summary From nearly flooding my hotel bathroom in Ogallala, Nebraska through the bike friendly rails…
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Canadian American data adventure summary – Part 1: Canadian writeup
To avoid the risk of never getting around to writing up about my 3757 mile data adventure ride from Edmonton, Canada to Hoover, Alabama, I’m going to go ahead and post this with a stream of consciousness recap and split this up into a few different posts. This one is the Canadian summary, which was…
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A weather adventure commute to Virginia
Intended route – 885 miles from Hoover, AL to Staunton, VA w/ ~50k ft climbingActual route – 760 miles from Hoover to Staunton w/ 44k ft climbing At the end of September, Hurricane Helene strengthened rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico and then came ashore in a rural part of the gulf coast of Florida…
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Tour Divide 2022 – Day 18 – June 28th, 2022 – Finishing the Tour Divide on our 19th wedding anniversary
On June 28th, 2003, in a beautiful small town with no traffic lights in rural Northwest Wisconsin, my beautiful wife said “I do”. The featured pic above is an hour or so later taken by a dear friend who snapped it after we finished the drive even farther into the woods to a cross country…
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Tour Divide 2022 – Days 16 and 17 – June 26th/27th, 2022 – Grants, NM to Silver City, NM via the toughest ride of my life
Keep in mind by the start of this ride I was averaging about 3 to 4 hours of sleep per night for 15 days in a row. Also, keep in mind that by the start of this ride, I had already ridden over 2,400 miles over those same 15 days. Lastly, keep in mind that…
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Tour Divide 2022 – Day 15 – June 25th, 2022 – Cuba, NM to Grants, NM via the Navajo Nation Reservation and Deino community day
Since I had arrived so late, I was a bit slower getting started, rolling out the door by 6am. Still, the worker who I had talked to at midnight when I resupplied at the gas station was amazed to see me again already. “Didn’t I just see you?” … “Yep, short nap”. I had run…
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Tour Divide 2022 – Day 14 – June 24th, 2022 – Del Norte, CO to Cuba, NM via the highest point in the race and an endless pavement re-route
I had made sure I had 24 hour access to the storage closet because I knew I would be leaving in the middle of the night. It felt a little strange to be tip-toeing through hardwood floors of the historic hotel at 2AM while carrying my bags I had taken off the bike a few…
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TD 2022 – Day 13 – June 23rd, 2022 – Salida, CO to Del Norte, CO via three big passes and a fourth “hill”
Cold, foggy, and windy, I left the hotel at 2:10am and headed twenty-five miles straight up into a cold headwind blowing down the mountain on a large paved highway (US 285) that had me stopping to put on an extra layer even on the climb. After a few miles of climbing, the route turned onto…