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 [...]
May 26, 2008
Big, Beautiful Ride
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 [...]
May 22, 2008
Ride of Silence
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 [...]
May 19, 2008
Serious Cycling Geekery
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 [...]
May 19, 2008
Weekend Riding
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
May 5, 2008
Another New Look at Familiar Territory
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, [...]
May 2, 2008
One Third of the Year Done
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 [...]
April 30, 2008
Lance Armstrong Theme for iGoogle
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.
April 27, 2008
Things Look Different Going the Other Way
We had a club ride today and it covered many of the same roads that we usually ride, but we took many of them in opposite the usual direction. The roads look surprising different when you go a different way. Downhills become uphills. You see the opposite sides of buildings. There are all sorts [...]
April 23, 2008
Another Bike Blogger
Matthew Yglesias a political blogger has bought a bike. He is planning some downtown DC commuting on it and blogging about it.
For example, the city fathers of Washington, DC should consider that
though it’s nice that they’ve established some bike lanes, the key
thing would be for the lanes to connect with one another and go [...]
