A dog was barking, furiously, as we began our 100-mile bike ride on Saturday, March 10. It was about 6:30 in the morning in Solvang, California, and my Team In Training (TNT) teammates and I were thrilled to finally be starting the Solvang Century after months of training. The dog was in a house on … Read more
Over the course of my cycling training so far, I have learned that seasoned cyclists use certain words in different ways from what most of us are used to. For example, when one of them refers to a course as being “fun,” or “great,” this probably means that biking it will hurt like hell. Another … Read more
Did it — I’ve biked my age in miles, and a bit more! Last Saturday’s training ride, starting and ending in Half Moon Bay and hugging the coast on Route 1 and swinging inland through farms and some rather gnarly ascents, went for 53.1 miles. And no, I didn’t bike around the parking lot at … Read more