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Friday Morning, Thursday Night Report
Let’s start by saying I put my best foot forward this week and started my Thursday night ride with the A group. I won’t bore you with details but, needless to say it was somewhat intimidating and for good reason. Rolling out with the group started well enough with some good echelon pacing along County [...]
Read moreBest Intentions.
As all good things do – it began with a great idea. Hatched several days prior it was decided that Sunday was to be the day that we would ride. After a bit of a hiatus from the road bike over the last couple of weeks I was looking forward to a great day on [...]
Read moreFriday Morning, Thursday Night Report.
Another beautiful night for a ride. Last nights ride was spectacular. After a short wait in the parking lot, a large B group composed of at least 30 riders rolls out. In tonight’s group, a highlight, Mr. Scott Wood has made an appearance, hairy legs and all. Great to see you out Mr. Wood. Tonight’s [...]
Read moreThursday Night, Friday Morning Report.
Last night was a fantastic night for a group ride. Sunny, warm, not too windy. Only trouble was that we were just about to demolish ourselves on the short hilly route. Nevertheless, a huge group of riders were out in full form to pit themselves against each other and against the gravity that would begin [...]
Read moreSaturday? Thursday Night Report.
Finally a somewhat warm, sunny day for our Thursday nighter. Awesome, the roll out from the Bean had approximately 16 of us head towards Douro. Not a small group but, not large either. Nothing unusual here. Quite another story once we reached the Douro arena. Looks like the PCC Thursday night ride was in full [...]
Read moreWhere are my Winter Clothes?
After finishing up with the Tucson Bicycle Classic and only a couple short days remaining Anton, Yuri and myself decided to climb Mt. Lemmon. All 45kms to the ski valley and a little town called Summerhaven, which happens to have a small restaurant that sells the best plate sized cookies. Needless to say we bought [...]
Read moreNoble Pursuit 2013
The Noble Pursuit is a team event happening on Sunday July 21st, 2013. Think of it as the greatest time you will ever have on a bicycle. Teams of 6 will depart from the Silver Bean in staged intervals. The ride will cover something like 140km-160km. The route will remain a highly guarded secret until [...]
Read moreThursday Night Report. Kinda.
PHOTOS BY MARK WICKHAM. Let’s begin with a rough, non-verbatim transcript of emails, text messages and telephone calls that went down between four bicycle riders last night — prior to 5:30pm. “Hey, what are you thinking about tonights ride?” “It’s snowing” “You wanna ride?” “It’s wet snow” “It’s Thursday Night, I’m going to ride” “It’s [...]
Read moreBring on SPRING!
There was a great little piece in an issue of Peloton Magazine a while back. This was a special issue that was all about the 2012 spring classics – and had a bit of bro-mance going on for the Belgian king of the cobbles Tom Boonen. After basically laying down the reality check that we [...]
Read moreFriday Morning Thursday Night Report
Lucky for Rhys, Charlie and I that the small group of riders that showed up for the Thursday night ride decided to swing by Wild Rock and pick us up. Originally, the three of us did not think we were going to make the ride as it was scheduled to start at 6pm. Well, [...]
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