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Archive for August, 2008

Bike Ride 28 - Friends, Flats, and Follies

Today was the first Saturday ride of my new bicycling fitness program so I was due to ride 30 miles. I set the alarm for 8, woke up at about 7:30, and headed out.
About 2 miles into my ride I saw a guy walking his bike down the sidewalk towards me. I asked [...]

How to Treat Road Rash

As cyclists, who hasn’t gotten their fair share of road rash? I know I have. I ran across this cool article today on wikihow about How to Treat Road Rash. There’s a video too. Check it out.

Bike Ride 27 - Cycling through the pain

It’s 5:00 AM again and the alarm is blaring. I probably should have went to bed earlier last night. Whatever. I resist the temptation to hit the snooze button (actually, I accidentally hit the off button instead of snooze) and crawled out of bed. I was out the door quick this [...]

2008 Bicycle Riding Goal

As a followup to my post last week on Setting Goals, I thought it was time that I established my 2008 goal. I know, it’s already August but I failed to set proper goals back when I started and I thought I should go ahead and do it now. I started in April [...]

Bike Ride 26 - New Bicycle Route & Fitness Program

Today is the day I started my new bicycling fitness plan. I haven’t posted my plan yet because I’m still writing that article. Needless to say, I took inspiration from my own goals article and developed a cycling plan that will help me accomplish 1,600 miles of bike riding before the end of [...]