Tag: Tour de Whatcom
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Northeast County Loop
Shoulder on Smith was literally littered with glass, sadly saw this broken 12 pack’s twin outside Everson. I rode this loop last Saturday, July 6th, a couple of days after Independence Day, but before street sweepers could hit all the bad spots. This half rack of Corona bottles dumped on Smith Rd. wasn’t the only…
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Lake Samish Loop
I don’t know if I should call this ride a loop exactly, because the only part of it that is actually a loop is the part around the lake itself. So maybe this should be in a new classification of it’s own. I’ll call it an out and back loop where I ride out somewhere,…
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2018 Mt. Baker Hill Climb
My reason for the ride, was to take another step towards returning to a level of fitness that I “useta” have, but have not enjoyed for the last couple of decades or so. My aim was to use riding the Tour de Whatcom(TDW) as an annual fitness goal, but when my wife shared a Facebook…
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Getting Close
About a week ago, I wrote this post about my last training ride before the then upcoming Tour de Whatcom(TDW) but I guess I never hit the button to publish it. So here it is. With just a week to go until the Tour de Whatcom, I wasn’t feeling really ready until I finished this…
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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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