Tag: photos
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Cycling in the northwoods, part ii
Here are pics and a topocreator map from today’s ride.
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Cycling in the winter northland
The BBL season is coming along nicely, although we have had some weather issues which delayed our first ride with points available until this past Saturday. After getting back from 82 miles of riding in the morning, we packed up the car to drive over 1100 miles from Birmingham to Shell Lake, Wisconsin. We left…
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Blast from the past
My wife was getting ready for a garage sale this Saturday when she found these two posters that I saved from my college racing days at Clemson University. I was a big follower of the principles laid out in Eddie Borysewicz’s book “Bicycle Road Racing”. One of the things that he recommends doing at the…
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Gatlinburg to Clingman’s Dome
How is that for a scenic view and ride profile? It took just over two hours to do the 22 mile climb out of Gatlinburg up to the Clingman’s Dome parking lot – and then only 42 minutes to make it all the way back down! That works out to an average speed of 11mph…
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Dauphin Island Ride
Yesterday I took two of my programming students to the University of South Alabama just west of Mobile for a programming competition. The competition involves a 5-hour session where we cannot make any contact at all with the students. What is a biking professor to do for those 5 hours? Well, let’s see, I’ll go…
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2009 Greenville Fall Extravaganza Race Weekend
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hep8mFtyxj0&hl=en&fs=1&] Even though it was a 5+ hour drive from Birmingham, it was well worth it for a new race weekend on the calendar this year in Greenville, SC put on by the Piedmont Orthopaedic Associates Cycling Team. The first race was at Brookwood Church in Simpsonville just outside Greenville. The church had a huge…
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The 2009 US 100K
Attempting to bridge with Andy Crater and a Hincapie rider Exciting racing today in Marietta, Georgia. The US 100K is a race like no other with a start just before sunrise, a fast descent immediately accelerating to 45+mph before hitting the first of three large rollers including one with a 50+mph descent, 11 laps of…
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Cascade Cycling Classic
Kristine’s view from the feedzone on Stage 2 I am out here with my family in beautiful Bend, Oregon racing the Cascade Cycling Classic. The field here is like a “who’s who” of whose not in the Tour de France. To give you an example, during one of the many “slam on your brakes” moments…
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GCGP Low Country Challenge Race Report
Another great weekend by the folks at Swagger and the Georgia Cycling Gran Prix … this time in beautiful Beaufort, SC and Port Royal, SC. This was a long 7 hour drive (8 hours with stops for the kids), but it was fun to have a mini-beach vacation and visit my grandmother in Florence not…
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GCGP Low Country Challenge Race Report
Another great weekend by the folks at Swagger and the Georgia Cycling Gran Prix … this time in beautiful Beaufort, SC and Port Royal, SC. This was a long 7 hour drive (8 hours with stops for the kids), but it was fun to have a mini-beach vacation and visit my grandmother in Florence not…