cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
Devils Backbone Metric Century Road Ride and Ramble
Devils Backbone Road Metric Road Ride and Ramble
An uphill pass while riding on the Blue Ridge Parkway during the Devils Backbone metric century.
Let's get something out of the way. There are two climbs on this ride
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides
The Covered Bridge Metric Century
The Covered Bridge Metric Century
By the time it started raining, I didn't care anymore. Nothing was going to ruin this day. We had biked through five or six covered bridges, the Amish farms were spectacular and the Amish themselves were
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cycling destinations, Road Bike rides, Uncategorized
Mountain Cycling vs. Beach Cycling.
The bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway connects the mainland to Holden Beach. The two dots in the middle are Mary and me.
The Epiphany started with a window decal
Mary and I stopped at a red light on
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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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cycling destinations, Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Road Bike rides
Sarcoidosis Breakthrough A Ride with a Happy Ending
Virginia's Blue Ridge Fondo was a milestone for 2019.
I'm writing this in late October, 2019. It hasn't been a very good year for cycling.
At least not cycling performance.
In my mind, cycling performance is an indication of fitness,
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Cycling with Sarcoidosis, Mountain bike rides
The Road to Recovery is Covered in Snow
I wondered if I was ever going to ride my bike again.
This is a happy post. It really is. But honestly, I wasn’t sure if I’d ever get to write it. It's all because of an illness called sarcoidosis.
In January
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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...