Category: Rides
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Tour de Whatcom 2023
My wife had a Facebook memory pop up from my first Tour de Whatcom(TDW) century ride in 2015, making this my ninth ride around the county. We had the Covid year but I did my private “outlaw” version. Then I had the year where it overlapped oral surgery so I did the 40 mile route…
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2022 Mt. Baker Hill Climb
Smoke filled training, event cancelled, event rescheduled to when I was sick, rode it anyway, many cramps, miserably slow, but not a DNF. Looking forward to next year.
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Tour de Whatcom 2022
I am glad that 2022 was a pretty much normal year for Tour de Whatcom(TDW) and by that I mean no Covid like 2020 where I did all of the rides as solo/outlaw rides and no oral surgery restrictions like 2021 where I did just the 40 mile route. Oh yeah, there was the issue…
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Winter Riding Tip
Many of my ride posts attest to the fact that I ride year round. You know rain, snow, dark of night, like the postal service only I do it for recreation. I’ve pushed my bike up the last snowy bit on Galbraith many a time and even carried my bike over parts of Wickersham in…
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2021 Mt. Baker Hill Climb
Well there we go, another wet Mt. Baker Hill Climbs, that’s 2 out of 3 for me. 2018 was mostly cold but clear with beautiful views. 2019 was wet riding in a cloud with almost no visibility. Then this year was just raining, raining, and more raining with views of rain. However, the ride was,…
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Seattle to Portland – 2020 Virtual Edition
I just completed the Seattle to Portland 2020(STP), though this years STP was virtual in a certain manner of speaking. There was no real event with thousands of people forming a ribbon of bikes between Seattle and Portland, but people, many people, took up the challenge to ride real bicycle miles in an organized virtual…
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