Activity: road cycling Location: Georgetown University > Potomac/Avenel, MD > Dupont Circle Distance: 21.9 miles (moderately hilly) Duration: 1:20 Weather: partly cloudy with a breeze, 71 degrees Avg HR: 150 (max 172) Type: aerobic A post-ride work to take advantage of gorgeous late-summer/early-fall weather. I didn’t have my cyclocomputer on the bike, so I used …
After all, today is “Talk Like A Pirate Day.” Be mindful, though: if you don’t show your sea legs today, I can’t guarantee that you won’t be held at sword’s end, being eased toward a date with Davy Jones (and I don’t mean the Monkee). Funny thing: it’s not too tough to feel like a …
Activity: road cycling Location: Berryville, VA > points in northern VA and northeastern West VA. Distance: 100.7 miles (moderately hilly) Duration: 5:09 Weather: sunny and gorgeous, with some strong breeze, 81 degrees Avg HR: 160 (max 186) Type: aerobic “PPTC 100: Historic Back Roads Century” – the club’s century ride. Not a PR in the …
Over the years, I’ve thrown my leg over many, many bikes. Some are more memorable than others, but I feel that all deserve a bit of time to remember. Bike #1: Peugeot 3-speed road bike (ca. late-1970s) This was a loaner from the Netka family, who lived down the street from me, and whose daughter, …
Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle, DC > Alexandria, VA Distance: 17.7 miles (flat) Duration: 1:09 Weather: overcast with light mist, 70 degrees Avg HR: 138 (max 165) Type: aerobic A nice spin of a ride after work. I just wanted to get some light riding in, so I figured a nice spin on the …
A few updates on things, as I’ve been quiet of late: The trip to Utah was a trying experience. There wre some fun bits, like mountain biking, going to the yarn store with sprite, drinking coffee at SLRC. But a lot of it was tough, dealing with family stuff and trying not to go crazy. …
Activity: mountain biking Location: Bonneville Shoreline Trail, including The Bobsled (Salt Lake City, UT) Distance: 13.6 miles (mostly singletrack and fire roads) Duration: 2:38 Weather: sunny and pleasant, 79 degrees Avg HR: 150 (max 186) Type: aerobic A trip back to my youth, in a way. I used to ride these trails when I lived …
Heading out to Utah this evening for a long weekend at mom’s place. sprite is coming along, too. The trip will be just long enough to do things I want to do – go mountain biking, go to the Wasatch and Uinta mountains, see old friends, possibly volunteer for Pete Ashdown, do a bit of …
sprite and I went to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Sunday, the next-to-last day of its operation before a massive, two-year renovation. It was weird. We’d been to the museum before, but this time much of it had been packed up into crates, ready to be moved either to cold storage or …
Activity: road cycling Location: Frederick, MD > Emmitsburg, MD > Mt. Joy, PA > Littlestown, PA > Taneytown, MD > Frederick Distance: 101.7 miles (moderately flat) Duration: 4:55 Weather: sunny and pleasant, 76 degrees Avg HR: 160 (max 186) Type: aerobic PPTC “Tour du Gatorade” ride. Aside from two decent-sized climbs in the second half …
