All I Know

On Day 6 I likened riding down east to being on an exercise bike.  Well, if you remove the washboard feature from Day 6, and the turns (ya know, left and right), now you reallyhave an exercise bike, which is what…

Today there was an option to go 100 miles, which is a milestone for a cyclist. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, it made logical sense to me take the option, so I did. The day was fine, beautiful even,…

Out of the fire and into the frying pan: today we left the sandhills and dumped out on the coastal plain, flat as a griddle. 68 miles today covered in a snappy 3 hours 48 minutes for 18.1 mph. I…

74 miles through piedmont backroads that run through farm country, similar but not identical to the ones I usually train on. A nice day overall; weather fine, route very nice. Des Jeunes that I rode in with yesterday were ahead of…

Today’s hop was 78 miles.  The weather was fine except for the 45 minutes that it poured.  After that went through some of the greenway in Charlotte (more on this in a minute).  It ran along I guess what is…

Before you get carried away with the romance of the thing, be sure to factor in that there will be days like today.  It rained all the way from Lake Lure to Shelby, 57 miles, about 4 hours. The real…

Slept well enough overnight. The low seems to have been around 53. There was a log of moisture on th walls inside the tent, and it was really foggy outside. There is an on-site coffee service that fills the morning…

I committed to this ride so late that I missed basic registration, the meal plan, and most of all, the bus that takes you from Cary to the starting line. So I used the message board and found a ride.…