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Views of Anacapa #3 | Cycling as Metaphor

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Views of Anacapa #3. 126 miles; 6k ft. climbing; 7hrs 27 min. This past Saturday I rode my first 200k of the year with the PCH Randos. This was my third time riding this course. So by now I should know the way without putting in any “bonus miles” or having to scrutinize the route sheet too much. About 20 miles in, a small group including my friend Mark, riding his first brevet caught up with me at the info control in West Saticoy on the outskirts of Ventura. We stopped briefly as a volunteer (Foster?

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Orange County Circle Santiago 300K | Cycling as Metaphor

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Orange County Circle Santiago 300K. Haven’t updated in a while – but here’s a ride report from a 300K I did back on Feb. 5th with the PCH Randonneurs:. The night before, I stocked up on “recovery drinks” at the Bruery. 8220;What would you like, sir? 8220;All of your cookies, please”. 8220;A cookie…? 8220;All…all of your cookies.”. My total was something like $1.39 for a fist full of sugar that would propel me onward all the way up the Santa Ana River Trail. We spread out then re-grouped a few times just ...

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Sleepless in Solana | Cycling as Metaphor

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Catching up on documenting some older rides, this one was from March 19, 2011:. Just a glimpse of the fields filled with wildflowers on the periphery of Anza Borrego. Crows would rise above the swaths of yellow, like one of Van Gogh's late paintings brought to life. Sun cutting through the mist. Stopping in Alpine, I went into a doughnut shop and had a brief but pleasant chat with the girl who worked there – then moved on up the hill, sad to see Alpine Beer Company. I passed through Descanso, pausing ver...

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“Big Tujungas to Wrightwood” Permanent | Cycling as Metaphor

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8220;Big Tujungas to Wrightwood” Permanent. On a whim I rode the “Big Tujungas to Wrightwood” permanent yesterday. At 217k with around 15k feet of climbing, it’s not the easiest route. Passing through the tunnel on Angeles Forest Hwy, you encounter Hidden Springs, but since the Station Fire, there has been no water here. This was also the first time on the ride I saw one of the dreaded “Poodle-dog Bush” plants:. Rando-nesia must have set in, as I’m already planning a re-ride (hopefully I’ll f...2015 Coff...

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De Mochilero: Programa de radio sobre viajes de aventura: julio 2011

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De Mochilero: Programa de radio sobre viajes de aventura. Jueves, 28 de julio de 2011. Audio Camerun y Benin. Entrevista al antrópologo Joan Riera sobre estos dos países. Jaitsi audioa - Descarga el audio. Domingo, 24 de julio de 2011. Http:/ eguzki-demochilero.blogspot.com/2011/07/audio-camerun-y-benin.html. Rumbo a Benin". Editorial Laertes. Rumbo a Camerun". Editorial Laertes. Martes, 19 de julio de 2011. Audio Fotografía Parques Naturales. Jaitsi audioa - Descarga el audio. Más info y fotografías:.

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Man down | Cycling as Metaphor

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I’m working on a few ride reports, but I just wanted to take a moment to remember a fellow rider, Jim Swarzman. Who was struck by a Dodge RAM. In Leucadia while riding a 600K (hosted by the San Diego Randonneurs) with his fiancée and a friend. After being air-lifted out, he died a few hours later (in the same hospital I was taken to when I crashed near-by last year). I didn’t know him long, and I didn’t know him well. That said, here’s what I do know:. What consolation can we offer his loved one’s? You a...

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Lions and Tigers and Bear Divide | Cycling as Metaphor

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Lions and Tigers and Bear Divide. My ride yesterday was typified by triple digits – both in temperature and in mileage. On Friday morning, I should have been starting out on a 1000K ride from Seattle to Klamath Falls, but canceled that adventure in deference to the concerns of my family and doctors. As it turns out the challenges of the local 200K permanent. I did instead were plentiful. Then I started the first “real” climb of the day, up over Little Tujunga ( discussed previously. Big Sur 600K →. Once ...

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Rapha Festive 500…in one day: | Cycling as Metaphor

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Rapha Festive 500…in one day:. Pathei Mathos - Aeschylus. Being car-free, I generally see my parents only once a year, despite them living less than 3 hours away when traveling by said vehicle. Given our remarkably pleasant “Winter” weather here in Southern California, I decided to make the trip up via bicycle. At first I mapped out a 400K route up Hwy 33, but when all my friends started posting about the Rapha Festive 500. I dropped my teeth off to prepare for a wedding? Long sleeve jersey. I slowed...

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Mudfoot Dirty Hundo | Cycling as Metaphor

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The Mudfoot Dirty Hundo. Must be one of the most well documented. Rides I’ve participated in (indeed, at times it seemed almost like a weird back-woods commercial with so many bike shops. In attendance), so you don’t really need my ride report, but really I should keep writing, so…. Preserving this here so it will live on beyond a secret Facebook post or at least beyond my fleeting memory. A very rough re-cap, sorry no photos. Well, not from me, but here are a few from others). I got to Redbox a little b...