I pressed hard to ride the first two days of 2010. My wimpy cut-off temperature of 60 degrees was never reached so I bundled up and hit the road with my Garmin Edge 305 recording my timid efforts. Friday was 25 miles and Saturday netted 20 miles. I have not set my goal for the [...]
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674 riders took to the start line (about the average number). I met a couple of brothers (Dickson was their last name) from Huntsville who are frequent visitors to the Texbiker.net website. We talked about various rides. I had brought my Flip camera with the intention to shoot some video but the batteries died while [...] I was thumbing through the Wall Street Journal August 7th Weekend Journal and ran across this story, “Cycling’s One-in-a-Million Story“. Reed Albergotti writes how this overworked Wall Street worker buys a bike to stay fit and finds she has extraordinary talent as a professional bicycle racer. Evelyn Stevens worked 50 hour weeks on Wall Street. [...] |
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Windtrainer Action for January 4th & 5th
With the weather turning cold and no daylight when I get home the last resort is the trusty Cyclops windtrainer. Thanks to my recently purchased Garmin Edge 305 with cadence I am able to record information I only dreamed about. I do not try to smoke the rear tire and no stand-up sprints but I [...]