Category Archives: Rando

PBP 2011 pt 3

Although Kevin and I rode entirely through the first night together, I do not remember so much about it.  I recall initiating our stop at St. Nicolas, a resting place set up by the organizers of the PBP, with an … Continue reading

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Welcome to “Winter”

Someone from the Columbus area on my soon-to-be-discontinued facebook stream mentioned that he was going to do a “winter” ride this weekend.  What’s the weather going to be like?  Oh, just rain, winds and temps in the 40′s.  That’s not … Continue reading

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PBP 2011 pt 2

The Ride At the start, we succeeded in avoiding any of the problems that we had anticipated.  From our position, way at the back of the last starting wave, there was no formal “GO!” to respond to.  It was as … Continue reading

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PBP 2011 pt 1

The Background Where to start?  My wife and I enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a month in France at the end of this summer.  We were thus able to taste the delights of the Perigord Noir and then to … Continue reading

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Score!

As I dilly-dally on the PBP writeup, and attempt to survive a return to the working world, I thought that I ought to report that I just figured out that I have already earned the Ultra Randonneur award that I … Continue reading

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In Case Anyone Cares…

As I stall for time on a PBP writeup, I just crunched a couple of easy numbers with the aid of an online gearing calculator.  In this event, I pedaled something like 218,500 crank revolutions on my 46×17 drivetrain, or, … Continue reading

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PBP Controle Times

You never know how long this information will last online, so I saved it here for posterity. These results were computed from a RFID chip that I carried on my ankle and usually I checked in with my route card … Continue reading

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PBP 2011 First Take

In case anyone cares, I finished this edition of the PBP in about 78:40 and on the fixed gear.  Everything went without a hitch.  As far as I was concerned, I chose a perfect gearing for this terrain– I was … Continue reading

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Ohio 400K 2010

With about 3 weeks until the PBP, I felt that I needed to get one more long, hard ride in.  I could not have picked a better ride that the OH 400K this weekend.  It had hills, some 16,000 feet … Continue reading

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OH 300K Brevet II 2011

Since this ride promised to be extra steep-hilly, I brought the regular, derailleur-laden bike along.  A goal was to get some form of high-intensity training in on what I was framing in my mind as a “short” long-distance ride, and … Continue reading

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