Monthly Archives: September 2008

Windy, Rainy, Fifty

By John Straffin | Published: 25 September 2008

I had taken today off from work (tomorrow, too) to help out around the house as my wife’s best friend has flown in from AZ with her two daughters. There’s stuff they’d like to do, just the two of them, and I can stay home with the four kids while they do so. They didn’t [...]

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I just rode in from Virginia and boy are my legs tired!

By John Straffin | Published: 21 September 2008

(ba-DUM-pshhh!) So… yesterday I rode my bike to Virgina. Virgilina, Virginia, to be precise. Took 501 from home, then 49 to Virgilina. To make things less boring than an out-and-back trip would be, I then took 98 to Oxford and Old 75 (NC 1004) back to Durham. Total distance = 90.9 miles according to Google [...]

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My “New” Bike

By John Straffin | Published: 18 September 2008

So… I went shopping this past Thursday afternoon for some parts to prepare my bike for the ride. (I had taken the day and Friday off to take care of the girls while Shannon was away on a women’s retreat.) The girls were tortured by multiple trips to multiple bike shops, but a well-chosen audiobook [...]

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“This Morning a Cyclist Saved My Lunch”

By John Straffin | Published: 10 September 2008

(with apologies to Michael Cleveland) Coming into the home stretch of a 24-mile ride this morning (13.2 avg mph), I spotted a car slowly backing down its driveway with something decidedly out of place on its roof. Having been in this situation far too often to admit, and wishing that I had had someone to [...]

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