Coast-to-coast ride
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April 21, 2021
2021-04-14 Day 34
Back on the bike – at least for part of the day! After waiting exactly three days (36 hours) as per the doctor’s orders, I was ready to ride again. This put me on my bike at noon today, so I started a little beyond the middle of the ride from the second SAG/Check-in […]
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April 21, 2021
2021-04-13 Day 33
Rest Day! This was a full rest day for the entire team. I was still at the hotel trying to get off the injured reserve list during this day. Overall, a boring day. More to come tomorrow.
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April 21, 2021
2021-04-12 Day 32
Forced day of rest. Since I’m on a forced day of rest today, I asked John Schafer to share his pictures today with me. So he is going to be our “guest blogger” today. Today’s ride is about 68 miles, but I had to sit it out. Today’s Ride Statistics: Target ride was 69.7 miles. […]
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April 21, 2021
2021-04-11 Day 31
Injury! Another beautiful day for riding. We exited the Lockhart campsite largely as a group, which makes for a neat video. When I see these pictures in retrospect, they really capture the feeling of the roads going on forever. 44 miles into the ride – which was scheduled for 62 miles – I […]
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April 21, 2021
2021-04-10 Day 30
Long-horn cattle. Third day of Texas Hill Country. For the first time, we saw some true “Long-horn” cattle. Quite the magnificent animal. (Spoiler alert – a couple days further into the blog are some really fun videos of these long horns.) We passed through a really thriving town called Kyle. It was our lunch stop […]
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April 20, 2021
2021-04-09 Day 29
More Texas Hills, but more challenge, too. Today we are continuing in Texas Hill country starting from the Kerrville campground. Similar terrain as yesterday, but with perhaps more spread-out hills. The morning was a little chilly, but wonderful riding weather in general. We generally avoid big urban areas so that we don’t have to […]
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April 15, 2021
2021-04-08 Day 28
Fun hills, hills, and more hills – AND – crossing the halfway point! No, really – it was fun. Most of the riders agreed. Today we entered the Hill Country of Texas. The change from the monotonous desert landscape was stark and welcome. We saw green, we say ground fog (read “humidity”), and […]
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April 15, 2021
2021-04-07 Day 27
Rest day! The rides day-to-day are much more encompassing and consuming than I had imagined they would be. My picture of life on the road was that I would ride 4 or 5 hours a day and be bored with the remaining time. So I planned special projects, books, deep thoughts – you get the […]
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April 08, 2021
2021-04-06 Day 26
After six-and-a-half days on Texas 90, we are finally parting ways with this road. Major lessons learned: Texas is not, in general, bike friendly Chip and Seal road surface generally sucks Today, after the first 40 miles, we turned north and after about 9 miles, hit the edge of Texas Hill Country, where we […]
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April 08, 2021
2021-04-05 Day 25
A much brighter day. Some fun sights along the way. Today’s ride was so much better than yesterday. We did still have the wind in our faces and the Texas “chip and seal” road surface. But today, we had some fun sights and, most importantly, some sunshine! There is a large man-made lake in […]
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