Archive for October, 2005

10004.2

Monday, October 31st, 2005

After the Lake Champlain Tour’s monster mileage tally, I’ve reached a massive mileage milestone. (Enough alliteration for you?) 10004.2 miles since starting to seriously ride in July, 2003. And it only took 613 hours!
Other interesting stats:
2003 avg speed: 15.79
2004 avg speed: 16.42
2005 avg speed: 16.76
2003 centuries: none
2004 centuries: 2
2005 centuries: 11
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The “less than 1%” club

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

My Trek is in the shop getting a tune-up this week. And, good news, Trek is
making good on the bum cranks I got. The plating is all flaking off and
looks terrible. They’re shipping replacements this week. They said they had
less than 1% of problems like this–so I’m part of that elite group.
I’m thinking this “less [...]

Lake Desolation & Wind with Kyle

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Kyle and I played it safe and stuck close to home for this Saturday’s ride. He was itching for some climbing and wanted to go to Wilmington, I hedged and suggest avoiding the long drive and riding locally. He agreed and we were off for a nice 67 miler.
Started at my house and immediately headed [...]

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