Bike Gear, Bikes I Ride, cycling destinations, meanderings
Re-defining the perfect bicycle on the Erie Canal
When you're a cyclist there's this thing about always wanting the best gear. But my vision of the perfect bicycle changed a bit as I watched my fellow cyclists tackle the 400-mile Erie Canal ride a couple of months ago
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Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
Riding with a Three-Time Olympic Gold Medalist
How I got to ride with Kristin Armstrong
Occasionally you get the assignment of a lifetime. This was one of those.
Interviewing Kristin Armstrong after the ride
As a reader, you may know that I am a news anchor by trade. Occasionally
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Bikes I Ride, cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
The Spring Summits Are Back
Once again spring has come and with it the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club’s Spring Summits Challenge.
The Club designates ten climbs in the Roanoke area and gives riders the entire season to complete them. So we have from March 20 to
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
The Blue Ridge Fondo 30-mile course
The Blue Ridge Fondo 30-Mile Course
As we prepared to ride the Virginia's Blue Ridge Fondo 30-mile course, the sun was out and even at 11 a.m. the temperature was already pushing toward 60. Not a bad day for the Sunday
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cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides
Sarcoidosis Breakthrough A Ride with a Happy Ending
Virginia's Blue Ridge Fondo was a milestone for 2019.
I'm writing this in late October, 2019. It hasn't been a very good year for cycling.
At least not cycling performance.
In my mind, cycling performance is an indication of fitness,
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cycling destinations, meanderings, Mountain bike rides, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
A Perfect Day in the Woods
Every once in awhile the bicycle gods smile down upon you.
You don't get these bicycle days very often.
A friend of mine loves to point out that there is no such thing as a bad day on a bicycle. After
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I betrayed my love, and now I’m left to suffer. The plastic ball full of whiffle holes bounced lightly in front of me. It wouldn’t hop more than a foot...
A sarcoidosis perspective on cycling My cycling has come a long way since I began lamenting the difficulties of riding while dealing with sarcoidosis and the multiple medications to keep...
Sometimes it just takes a little luck and a good guide. As we drove to the ride start of our gravel ride, my buddy Gary’s wife Barbara called. Thanks to...