For the last few weeks I’ve been doing the Bike To Work Challenge with a group of coworkers, thus most of my riding has been the commute during the week. Tour de Blast is coming up in a soon and I needed to get some hill climbing in. Thus, I did my first non-commute ride since Camano Climb today.
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The I-90 Floating Bridge
I went to a public hearing this evening discussing the proposals being evaluated for the I-90 floating bridge. This was my first public hearing, and I was expecting fiery rhetoric. Instead, I saw volumes of analysis done and thoughtful people available to explain, to mere mortals, the nuances of a pretty complex issue. Here are the proposals on the table: […]
Continue readingEverest without Oxygen
Monday was an absolutely gorgeous day to ride… except that I’ve started a low carbohydrate (Atkins) diet. If you bike at all, you know what happened… But first, some background. I have to maintain a medical for the FAA, I alternate between the FAA doctor and my real doctor. The FAA Class II medical (physical) is still basic. In fact, […]
Continue readingCamano Climb
The Camano Climb, in its seventh year, is sponsored by the Stanwood-Camano Kiwanis. The route is a 50 mile loop on Camano Island, about an hour north of Seattle. I found out about the ride from a flyer in the Cascade Bicycle Club newsletter.
Continue readingMy aching knees
Sunday’s ride was the fastest I’ve ridden in about 12 years. I tried bike-commuting on Tuesday and reduced my morning commute time to just over 1:30, which is about 1/2 hour less than when I started a year ago. Coming home, my knees started to hurt and for most of the week, they’ve been very clicky with various dull aches. […]
Continue readingA cycling paradise
One reason I love living here in the northwest is the abundance of bike lanes, bike trails, and people who are generally okay with cyclists. It’s a huge improvement over what we had in the city of Houston, though I do miss the Houston Bicycle Club’s categorization system. One-way distance is just under 19 miles, of which 10 are on […]
Continue readingConway to La Conner
Sunday’s ride was near La Conner, 60 miles north of Seattle, a large farming area, known best for the tulips festival in April. In the 12 years since I’ve visited, the there’s been consolidation of farms and several have gone away. The two remaining ones are Roozengarde and Tulip Town, and have more formal parking and shopping areas than before […]
Continue readingDaffodil Classic
Sunday, April 13th, was the Daffodil Classic, one of three ride events hosted by the Tacoma Wheelmen Bicycle Club, the oldest cycling club in the country. Because the ride was going to officially start at 7:00 a.m., I tossed all my cycling toys (and the bike) in the car the night before. I had a rather large pile of bike […]
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