cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides
Vanquishing Thunder Ridge
It's been a almost year since what was probably the worst ride of my life. Oh sure, there are those hard rides you later think of as epic, but this wasn't one of those. In fact, I didn't know this
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
The Tour de Valley in Waynesboro, Va.
Corn. Hay Bales. Barns. Ahhh. The Tour de Valley
It seems I never get tired of riding next to corn. Or hay bales. The Tour de Valley, which starts and ends in Waynesboro, Virginia offered plenty of both, along with barns
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
The Failed Fondo
The Star City Medio Fondo
What’s 7,000 feet of climbing among friends? As it turns out, too much for my legs.
“You know a ‘fondo’ is a race, right?” my wife Mary reminded me as we considered signing up for the inaugural
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Beers I have ridden, cycling destinations, Mountain bike rides
Beers I have Ridden: Deschutes Pacific Wonderland
Sometimes Beer and Bikes go together very well
Bath County, Va. (CarlinTheCyclist.com) -- Through some stroke of luck I have landed on the list of media people who occasionally receive samples of the latest beer produced by Deschutes Brewery in Bend,
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Cycling with Sarcoidosis, meanderings, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized, Virginia's Blue Ridge Cycling
Taking a mulligan on my cycling streak. Anguish over my own rule.
I try to ride 100 miles a month through thick and thin. But life got very thick in November. Is the streak over?
Mary and her friend Karen ride in Zion National Park in September of 2021.
I was finishing
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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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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...