Activity: road cycling Location: Bowie, MD > Deale, MD Distance: 52.6 miles (mostly flat with a few rolling hills) Duration: 2:46 Weather: overcast and muggy, 60 degrees Avg HR: 160 (max 180) Type: aerobic PPTC “New Deale” ride. An excellent ride, one of my all-time favorites. It had everything: a few hills, gorgeous farmland, forests, …
Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Bethesda & Glen Echo, MD Distance: 32.2 miles (rolling hills) Duration: 1:59 Weather: mostly cloudy, 70 degrees Avg HR: 154 (max 171) Type: aerobic A ride before running errands, and to get one in before the weather turns ugly for the next few days. Heading out of DC …
A few bits of randomness for this week…. I’m now 12-for-12 in terms of getting on the bike in May. Even yesterday’s rain didn’t stop me. On Monday night, I went to see Thomas Dolby at The Birchmere. It was a terrific show for two reasons: first, he’s a great musician; and second, a good …
Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Hains Point Distance: 26.7 miles (flat) Duration: 1:29 Weather: sunny, 75 degrees Avg HR: 159 (max: 180) Type: aerobic Laps around Hains Point. During the laps (not during the ride to and from the Point), I averaged 20.8 mph – nice and fast. During the final lap, I …
With the increasing prices of sweet light crude oil forcing petrol prices to increase, there’s talk on The Hill about how to “fix” the problem. After all, the United States is built around the automobile – one of the most misguided evolutions in the history of nation building, but I digress. Personally, I believe that …
Update on the May cycling challenge: It’s finals time at school, so I’m in the midst of finishing projects (just gave a 10 minute presentation on Haïti, and am finishing a paper on post-tsunami Indonesia). Also, I had a late night yesterday with my college buddy, Lunesse, who is managing Thomas Dolby’s tour and was …
So far, 125 miles under the belt. Not bad for one week’s worth of riding. Big rides: Tuesday’s “Downtown Breakaway” and Saturday’s ride from West Friendship. Today I’ll try and squeeze in some riding. It’s raining quite a bit today, so it’ll be sloppy as all getup, but I’ll manage to squeeze in something brief, …
One of the longest-running gags over the past 30 years has been the legal ballet played between Apple Records (the company owned by The Beatles) and Apple Computer. Various settlements have been achieved over the years to placate the music label, who had a 10 year jump-start on using the name. However, one of the …
Activity: road cycling Location: West Friendship, MD > Dupont Circle, DC Distance: 47.5 miles (hilly) Duration: 2:47 Weather: sunny and breezy, 75 degrees Avg HR: 157 (max: 175) Type: aerobic A lovely afternoon ride from the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival to The Burrow. I did a portion of this ride last year, and this …
So far, so good. Four days into the month, and I’ve been on the bike every day. The first two days had decently long rides, which made riding to work yesterday a bit more trying. But the legs broke through the slog, and all is well again. And I’m approaching 70 miles for the month …
