June 13, 2008 - 12:15 pm - Posted by thomas
OK, I know I said that I was concentrating on running this summer, but as many of you know I had a small sports injury that kept me limping for about a month. The doctor said that I had to bike before I run to ease my joints back into the strain. So, I am going to go ride the Tornado Alley in Joplin next month. It’s 110 miles of heat, hills, and wind. I’ve been training for that ride lately and have developed my own recipe for a ‘poor mans power bar’ that I will share with you sometime. After this ride is over though, I must get back to running if I want to do the half marathon this fall.
Cheers,
Thomas
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March 27, 2008 - 5:15 pm - Posted by thomas
I’m taking this year off of the MS Ride for a variety of reasons. I’ll probably ride next year, but this year I am focusing on running. In the mean time, I can still be reached by all the usual means. Plus, Team Different Spokes is still around this year (even though I am not the captain this time). Feel free to join the team.
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October 8, 2007 - 8:12 pm - Posted by thomas
This year was great. We had good weather and good times. Now it is time to start looking toward winter training… Read the rest of this entry »
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September 4, 2007 - 10:28 pm - Posted by thomas
This Labor day, my MS Ride team, along with several other riders, did a final training ride in the Independence, MO area. We have Rich to thank for mapping out the route for us. It was a very eventful day as the title suggests. Seeing how the MS Ride is this weekend, I will not scare you with all the problems we had but I will try to focus some posts on tips for new riders so when problems come up you feel prepared to handle them.
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September 1, 2007 - 4:06 pm - Posted by thomas
I lost my tail light while riding on a rough road. The common wisdom when this happens is to go drive the same route at night and look for the blinking ditch to find it. Of course, the common wisdom does not hold when you aren’t sure what your route was. The good folk at the Bicycle Shack sold me the Mars 3.0 by Blackburn as a replacement:
This is a great light if you want to be seen. It’s got 7 super bright LEDs (5 on the back and 1 on each side.) It’s very bright, but the brightness is diffused a little from an angle, which means you won’t blind the rider behind you. However, it will be seen even in bright sunlight.
The guys at the shop had a tail light that was even brighter, but it looked like it would annoy other cyclists so I went with this one instead. The sage advice offered by Bert was to zip tie your tail light to your under-seat bag to keep it from falling off.
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