1200k to Recovery

1200k to Recovery

I have been thinking about writing up what has transpired since I was hit by a car last January. I’ve started countless times and just couldn’t get it out of me. I think it was still too close to home. Too painful. Too depressing. More than half a year has...
Evening the Score: Perth Albany Perth 1200k

Evening the Score: Perth Albany Perth 1200k

Last year right about now I hopped on a plane bound for Sydney, Australia. My plan was to ride the Sydney Melbourne 1200k… and ride it with cracked ribs. Syd-Melb was a really tough ride, tons of climbing and lots of heat, and towards the end of Day 2 my ribs told me...
1200k to Recovery

Sierra Nevada Super 600k

Tom’s email corrects me, “It’s not the RUSA K-hound 10,000k I’m after, it’s the R 10,000”. What is that? I want to know. It’s the accumulation of two full Audax Club Parisian series (200-300-400-600-1000k set of brevets), a 1200k, completion of Paris Brest Paris, a...
1200k to Recovery

La Ruta Loca Randonee (LRLR)

La Roo tah, La ROOT ah, Laroo Tah… I’ve been thinking about La Ruta Loca for 2 years now. It caught my attention when reading Carlos’ personal website/blog posts – It Followed me Home – of his rando adventures. I read his account of La Ruta 2010 and was...
1200k to Recovery

BWR = BRE

In May, I rode the Texas Stampede and while on the ride I spoke to a few Seattle rando-pals about London Edinburgh London (LEL), which I had gotten into by lottery. “Oh, you’d be crazy to ride LEL”, they said, “It rains the entire time.” “How do you feel about...