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Day One Report: To hill and back

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…

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

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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“This Morning a Cyclist Saved My Lunch”

(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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Well… it’s about time!

Hello. My name is John, and I’m an ignore-my-blog-a-holic. This year will be different. (cue snickers from the one or two people who might actually read this thing) No… seriously. I’m gonna try to get something up here at least once a week, hopefully more. Let me know how that works out, okay?

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