The Most Beautiful Ride in the World
This was the most beautiful ride I ever did. Love the ocean but give me a cobbled climb over a mountain and a screaming decent through a gorge with stone bridges any day.
Horrible Hundred
CLERMONT, FLORIDA It was a beautiful morning. I parked and then rolled up to the flagpole at the start. I waited to meet my friend and former colleague, John Dockins. We met and were joined by another former colleague, Joe Berezo. I saw a rider wearing a cancer ride jersey and went over and talked […]
Sugar Cookie
CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA If I wanted breakfast at the hotel, and that is my favorite part of staying at a Hilton Garden Inn, I would be unable to make the earlier routes. And I already skipped breakfast once on this trip; that was before the World Hillclimb Championships. I wanted breakfast today. After a great breakfast […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie
AGOURA HILLS, CALIFORNIA This is Phil’s Cookie Fondo. As I write this I have a fresh huge chocolate chip cookie on my hotel’s nightstand that I will never eat. But this was a bike ride with the Chocolate Chip and Sugar Cookie routes today. Tomorrow is the main event and will have the Double Fudge […]
Hillclimb World Championships
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA Sometime this week I had a dumb idea. Or three. Ride Palomar. Ride Baldy. Ride the Hillclimb World Championships. On three consecutive days. If I was serious about putting up a good time I would not have ridden Palomar Mountain and Mount Baldy the day before the championships. Those climbs take everything […]
Alpine Loop Gran Fondo
HARRISONBURG, VIRGINIA I am sore and hurting. Not from a crash but from being so out of shape for an event. Including the time I stayed in Pennsylvania after my father died, I was two weeks without a bike ride leading up to the Jeremiah Bishop Alpine Loop Gran Fondo. If that wasn’t bad enough, […]
More Rain, Flooding, then Sunshine!
The Amgen Tour of California Stage 2 from Sausalito to Santa Cruz
Cold, Wet, and Windy
It was a cold and wet day in Santa Rosa as I was a course marshal for the ATOC
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