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Good Ground Blog: Day 14: Across the Mighty, Muddy Mississip! Monticello to Kosciusko, MS -- 180 Miles

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Saturday, May 30, 2015. Day 14: Across the Mighty, Muddy Mississip! Monticello to Kosciusko, MS - 180 Miles. Water, water all around was today’s theme. We not only crossed the Mississippi River and saw miles and miles of well-watered agriculture, we also enjoyed a thorough dousing in the last 40 miles. At first, the rain was welcome; it cut into the muggy afternoon, but it grew cold and steady and reduced me to plowing through the gloom later than I had hoped. And it has also filled the swamps and bayous.

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Good Ground Blog: February 2009

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Thursday, February 26, 2009. Power, Knowledge and Duty. Paul Danos, Dean of the Tuck School Business at Dartmouth, speaking at Johns Hopkins last night, argued that there was no lapse of "personal ethics" among the business people, regulators, and government leaders connected with the current economic downturn. Instead, he said, they were "negligent" in three key areas: power, knowledge and duty. I couldn't resist asking him if that negligence wasn't an ethical issue. Posted by Greg Conderacci @ 11:14 PM.

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Good Ground Blog: Day 15: Masterpiece Sunday -- Kosciusko to Camden, AL -- 196 Miles

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Sunday, May 31, 2015. Day 15: Masterpiece Sunday - Kosciusko to Camden, AL - 196 Miles. Diving into the early morning fog. Two week’s of hard riding, some 2,100 miles in our legs, and then there was today, the longest day of the tour, almost 200 hilly miles. It could have been a disaster, but it turned out to be a masterpiece of great ride design. The undulating hills were reminiscent of Central Maryland’s best riding. Mother Nature even held back on the wind and rain. My strategy was a simple one:.

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Good Ground Blog: Day 16: A Smoooother Ride: Camden to Eufaula, AL -- 153 Miles

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Monday, June 1, 2015. Day 16: A Smoooother Ride: Camden to Eufaula, AL - 153 Miles. Unless there are potholes or major bumps, the surface of the road goes unnoticed to most drivers. No so for bike riders. A silky-smooth blacktop can dramatically increase comfort and performance compared to a rougher surface. Of course, no less than 80% of The Ride for Our Daily Bread is on the rougher surface, usually some evil combination of tar and stone chip. Day on the road. The heart rate monitor is probably the mos...

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Good Ground Blog: September 2009

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Tomorrow, scores of ultra-long-distance cyclists from as far away as Brazil will gather in Quakerstown, PA for a 775-mile race around the entire eastern half of the state. The Endless Mountains 1240K not only features some 62,000 feet of climbing (more than twice Everest) but, because it is late in the season, much of the race will be in the dark. Posted by Greg Conderacci @ 11:21 AM. Why does anybody hire you, buy what you're selling, listen to you, follow you or believe you?

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Good Ground Blog: April 2009

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009. The Country Music Marathon: Mixing Passions Promotes Marketing. Now a decade old, the Country Music Marathon demonstrates a key marketing principle: Mixing Passions. If you like to run and you like country music, you were in Nashville last weekend, pounding up and down the rolling terrain of the Music City. In all, more than 32,000 runners competed, colorfully clogging the city's arteries and flooding the economy with millions in tourist cash. Monday, April 27, 2009. Some go ev...

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Good Ground Blog: Day 18: DONE! Dublin to Tybee Island, GA -- 120 miles

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Dublin to Tybee Island, GA - 120 miles. The PACTour Elite Transcontinental. The last day of The Ride for Our Daily Bread promised to be an easy one: no major hills, not much wind, and puffy white clouds playing across the horizon. But after 100 miles, Mother Nature blessed us with her customary afternoon downpour and we all finished wet. I became the oldest rider ever to complete the rigorous PACTour Elite Transcontinental - almost 2,800 miles in just 18 days. Bicycle expeditions...

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Good Ground Blog: October 2009

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Friday, October 16, 2009. The Endless Lessons of the Long Road. I can't imagine what that would be like." "I could never do that myself." "You're completely out of your mind.". Those, and other more creative and less printable comments, are what I usually hear when I tell folks that I rode my bicycle more than 600 miles through rain and frigid temperatures, climbing the equivalent of almost two Mt. Everests, and finaly broke a rib - all in less than three days earlier this month.

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Good Ground Blog: March 2012

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Learning Marketing from the Lady in the Middle Seat. She was the last person in the world I wanted to see. Two minutes before they closed the door on the packed, four-hour flight, she boarded and sat in the last open seatnext to me. After her second glass of wine, she pushed her book between me and my book and declared, The tears of someone you love compel me to ask you to read this page. What is your birthday? I was done with her, but not finished learning from her. In her o...