Monthly Archives: September 2008

Day Three Report: Lowes Bicycle Speedway

By John Straffin | Published: 30 September 2008

The terrain was flatter still on day three and the road was fairly rough in many places, slowing down my bike significantly and messing up many road bike wheels. Even with the rougher road, I still managed the 60 mile day with an average speed of 14.5 mph. Still very glad to be on a [...]

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Day Two Report: King of the hills

By John Straffin | Published: 29 September 2008

Today was one of the shorter days, but it had some hills that rivaled day one, with one of the hills possibly surpassing it in length. I quite readily dispatched them with all due haste. (Forsooth!) I don’t know whether it was the mountain-bike-style gearing of my bike or the legs powering it (probably a [...]

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Day One Report: To hill and back

By John Straffin | Published: 28 September 2008

Today was awesome, no two ways about it. We started out the day with a two mile climb, straight up, to the top of the Eastern Continental Divide. Touted as the toughest part of the entire cross-state tour, I was able to keep to my “No walking my bike” pledge with no problems. Sure, I [...]

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This may be harder than I expected…

By John Straffin | Published: 27 September 2008

Of course, the title of this post is refering to blogging and twittering and flickring this ride, not the ride itself. While the ride will be no walk-in-the-park, I wasn’t expecting it to be. No… documenting this ride in words and pictures promises to be challenging for several reasons: This silly little BlackBerry keyboard (not [...]

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One Mile Per Hour

By John Straffin | Published: 26 September 2008

Actually, it was 1.13 mph… …and it was in a pool. I took my youngest daughter to her swim practice this afternoon and, since I was able, I went for a swim myself. (They practice in two lanes of a Durham Parks & Recreation pool… I swam in one of the other lanes.) It was [...]

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