About Me

I'm a bicycle rider. More to the truth I train on the bike to stay fit as I get older. I train to fight off the age. Diebedes, high blood pressure, trigeminal neuralgia, unwanted weight and the problems from that to. There is a host of other age related fun to. I let myself put on 110 pounds over about the last 12 years. Then the body just had enough. I was falling apart. So I started doing the only thing I knew how to do. Train on the bike. I was a competitive Cyclist from 1979 to about 1992. I gave it all up. Bad choice. In the end I would have been far better off on the bike. Oh well. The lessons continue. That's really the truth of it. The lessons continue. Everyday, every moment. Everything is connected all the time. Well, that's how I see the Universe for me. How you see it, is your business. Ah freedom of thought. I got married to a wonderful woman March 21st 2007. The love of my life. It's true! It took all these 58 years to get ready to love this one beautiful woman. A writer of poems. A writer of pros. So many people know her already.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The miles of spring


It is not the spring so much as the moments of warm weather. After the long season of winter riding every warm moment is a prize. Riding my #1 bike, over the winter bike. Seems like a small thing. Not so much for me. Riding a bike, the #1 bike, is such a joy. A bike that just has something special. It feels so light and delivers power so directly. I push it goes! Climbing feels much better. Not so much faster. Just better, as if there is magic in the frame. Got to like that. The #1 frame is not even that high end of the Cannondale line. Still a VERY good frame. I have climbed 3 and 4 hour climbs in the Cascade Mountains with this bike and always finished first in my group. By alot! 30 mins and longer once! That should never happen as I am a BIG rider at 215 pounds and 6'5". Now I am just bringing this up to show how good this #1 frame is. So when I took it out for it's first ride since winter 5 months ago. The feel was so exciting. As posted, 60.4 miles in 4 hours. That's just training to. Then my next ride, the ride this blog is about, was on the winter bike. 55 miles in 4 hours. It's just like that, the #1 bike has something special in it. So here's for the good weather. Here's to Cannondale. Speed is body and bike working together. Well, and 4200 mile since January first. That helps.
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