The club held a ride today for the 4th of July. We did another variation of Three Unions and a Windsor. This is a popular ride mostly through Carrol County. I have done it several times before and I think I do a different variation each time.
This was my 49th ride of the year, and I [...]
I only got in ten miles of riding last week due to family and work commitments as well as regular thunderstorms, so I was looking forward to today’s ride. I had originally planned to do this ride at the end of June, so I planned an early start of 8:30 AM to beat the heat. [...]
I am leading a ride tomorrow that has three good size hills. It is challenging for some of the regular C riders from the club but doable, and that is the description I have had to fall back on. I have been interested in quantfiying it better for my own benefit at least, if not [...]
The club had a 67 mile ride today. They called it a metric century, but it is almost 5 longer than a metric century. I call it a fat metric. When I arrived at the start and saw who was there I was worried. He’s faster than me, she’s faster then me, he’s a bit [...]
The Ride of Silence is an international memorial for cyclists who have been killed on the road. The Frederick Pedalers sponsors a ride in Frederick. I have missed the ride the last two years. I was out of town one year, and I went to the wrong start another year. Tonight I made it to [...]
Being a physicist I have a tendency to try and measure things. I have been tracking the mileage that my car gets since I bought it in 2003. I keep logs of cycling mileage. I know how many times I ride a year and my average distance for each ride, my average speed etc. If [...]
I did 66.6 miles this weekend after my shutout last weekend. I am glad I got out twice this weekend. I am planning to do a metric century next weekend, and my longest ride this year is 48 miles.
YTD: 840.2 miles
Many Frederick Pedaler rides go through one or more of the three covered bridges in Frederick County. Today’s ride like last week’s went through all three, but it still managed to hit roads I have not yet been on in my three years of riding with the Pedalers. I have never ridden Bennie Duncan Road, [...]
With the end of April, we move into the heart of the cycling season. I have had a fairly good start to the year with 647 miles on 26 rides. That is 349 miles ahead of my pace for last year and over 400 miles ahead of 2006. I had a very good April with [...]
I use iGoogle for my home page and I discovered that Google has added a slew of new themes. I had been using an astronomy theme, but today I found a Lance Armstrong theme at http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/gallery.html.
