Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac/Great Falls, MD > Dupont Circle Distance: 37.7 miles (moderately hilly) Duration: 2:05 Weather: sunny and hot, 90 degrees Avg HR: 140 (max 168) Type: aerobic PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride, Pleasant Hills & Great Falls route. Good turnout today despite the heat, as Nick (the founder of the …
Activity: road cycling Location: Millerton, NY > Wassaic, NY > Kent, CT > Amenia, NY > Sheffield, MA > Copake, NY > Ancramdale, NY > Millerton Distance: 103.2 miles (very hilly) Duration: 5:36 Weather: partly to mostly cloudy, 73-84 degrees Avg HR: 138 (max 170) Type: aerobic The Harlem Valley Rail Ride century, a wonderful, …
Activity: road cycling Location: North Hillsdale, NY > Great Barrington, MA > Amenia, MA > Copake Falls, NY > North Hillsdale Distance: 51.0 miles (hilly) Duration: 3:21 Weather: mostly sunny, 77-89 degrees Avg HR: 140 (max 172) Type: aerobic A ride from the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival to Great Barrington, MA, then over Mt. Washington …
In an hour or so, we’re heading north to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival – a real vacation, much needed. So my posting will be pretty much non-existent until next week. But I’ll be riding quite a bit in the Harlem River Valley, so I’ll have lots to report when I get back.
Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac/Great Falls, MD > Dupont Circle Distance: 41.6 miles (moderately hilly) Duration: 2:10 Weather: mostly cloudy, 78 degrees Avg HR: 152 (max 173) Type: aerobic PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride. This is how I celebrated Pioneer Day: by leading a post-rain ride at a decent pace. The first third …
The much-anticipated bombshell from this year’s Tour de France has exploded: double stage winner Alexandre Vinokourov, once the favorite to win before a spectacular crash in the foothills of the Alps, tested positive for homologous blood doping in his incredible time trial win on Saturday, July 21. All I can say is: he’s a fucking …
Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Rockville, MD > Dupont Circle Distance: 33.6 miles (lightly hilly) Duration: 2:22 Weather: partly cloudy to overcast, 80-82 degrees Avg HR: 126 (max 153) Type: aerobic A wonderful ride in Rock Creek Park with two friends. The pace was slower than my usual, but it was a great …
Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Travilah, MD > Bethesda, MD > Dupont Circle Distance: 59.0 miles (moderately hilly) Duration: 3:15 Weather: sunny, 72-82 degrees Avg HR: 133 (max 165) Type: aerobic PPTC ” Summertime Real Ride From The Real City,” I was one of the co-leaders for the ride. T’was a small group, …
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Keith Olbermann is a rare entity in journalism these days: a man who knows no fear, and who is willing to speak things that the corporate shills who run the major media outlets dare not say for fear of offending the Bush propaganda machine. And last night, as he has many times before, Olbermann said …
