Ridin’ when I can
Posted in road rides on Aug 30th, 2010
Today’s ride home was fantastic. 4.5 miles in 23:45. Going through the new Athens Roundabout was quite fun, and the pedestrian/bike lane allowed me to totally blow by other cars. I had a close call with a red Dodge minivan who decided to pass at a bad time, and he almost had a head-on [...]
Posted in road rides on Aug 30th, 2010
Rode the World Voyageaur in this morning. 6 miles in 27 minutes. I loved every minute of it. Now I’m really looking forward to the ride home.
Posted in road rides on Apr 19th, 2010
In previous years I wouldn’t have attempted this ride so early in the season. As a matter of fact, prior to the 56-mile Quilt Barn ride last July, I’ve only done this ride one other time, and it was the longest ride I had ever attempted. The last time I rode this ride was [...]
Posted in road rides on Mar 8th, 2010
Today’s ride was a far cry from Saturday. Temps in the low 50’s and the fact that I have Monday afternoons off made or some excellent riding conditions. The bike path was still frozen about one mile south of Eclipse Company town, but I expect another day or so should fix that. [...]
Posted in road rides on Mar 8th, 2010
On Saturday, Chris and I met up with Dave at Peden Stadium at around 7:30 a.m. The forecast called for a beautiful day, and we wanted to take full advantage of it. We had hoped to ride to Nelsonville and back on the Athens Bike Path, but the path was still largely frozen [...]
Posted in road rides, videos on Feb 20th, 2010
Yesterday was the first day the sun has shined in a long time here in Southeast Ohio. Anybody who loves to ride bikes will tell you that it’s been really hard this winter to do any sort of riding at all. With a break in the snow and the sun shining enough to [...]
Posted in road rides, videos on Jan 23rd, 2010
I haven’t been on bike ride outside since November. With the forecast calleing for 55 degrees today, I decided to ride my bike to work. Roads were a bit damp despite being dry yesterday. Since I had to work the reference desk at the library, I carried my clothes with me. This video describes some [...]
Posted in road rides on Nov 21st, 2009
The first cold weather ride of the year. 34 degrees at the start, which made us almost give up after 20 minutes of riding. After laughing hysterically about how cold we were, we forged on and had a great 17.5 mile ride.
Posted in road rides on Oct 5th, 2009
Since Monday is my night to work, I often have the afternoon off. Assuming the weather cooperates and I’ve done all my chores, I have about 2.5 hours to do something fun. Rainy days, I play video games. On this sunny afternoon, I went for a bike ride.
The temperature was around 62 degrees. I was [...]
Posted in road rides on Oct 4th, 2009
Chris and I had a great ride on Saturday morning. The last 15 miles, Chris rode on a slowly leaking tire, so we had ample time for him to get an upper body workout pumping the tire. Other than that, it was a very wonderful morning for a ride. 54 degrees at the start, slightly [...]