Category: Rides
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Tour de Whatcom 2018
Tour de Whatcom 2018 (TDW) is in the books now and for me it will go down as maybe the most uneventful century of my life, It was sunny, but not to hot. The ride was windy from Everson to Birch Bay, but the headwind was not too strong. Traffic was almost completely devoid of…
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Slacking
I do believe that the last Tour de Whatcom I did was preceded by a vacation that included no biking whatsoever, lots of eating, and several beers per day. Looks like 2018 will follow suit as today’s ride was the first in about a week due to a fun little vacation time. Again, no biking,…
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Coming Up Fast
July 1st. That’d make the Tour de Whatcom only 3 weeks away. Am I ready? Not quite, but close. I logged 60 miles again today, including fixing a flat in Lynden, and still felt ok when I got home. Perhaps even a little less stiff than I was after last weekend’s ride of similar…
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North County Loop
Saturday was a nice morning for a long road ride. As a fitness goal, I signed up for the 100 mile Tour de Whatcom in July, so it is getting to be the time that I need to get my body used to the long miles on a road bike. Fitness levels for road biking…
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The Way I Do Galbraith
This is the way I do Galbraith. Push, Pull, Drag and lately riding up Galbraith Lane up to the towers to get a good workout. Then pick a trail and enjoy the ride down because it was earned on the way up. I’m not up there to fly through the air off some downhill ramp,…
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Haggen to Haggen Loop – cont’d
Last week’s Haggen to Haggen Loop ride was a bit of a bust. It’s been several months and several hundred miles of riding since I’ve last had a flat, so three in one ride was just time to pack it in and try another day. So today, with a fresh tube and patch kit in…
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