Ornoth’s been playing with data visualizations again, and as usual the results are pretty cool.

Climbing hills is how cyclists measure themselves. We roam around the countryside, testing ourselves against short, steep hills; long, steady hills; and especially ones that are both steep and long.

Ascending each hill dozens of times, we become ( Read more... )

It might be a tad early to write a retrospective on the 2015 cycling season, but my imminent departure from Boston is a more logical breakpoint than the arbitrary calendar change a month hence.

So, 2015: it was very much a tale of two seasons.

I was on a normal springtime trajectory for the first five months of the year, with training focused on ( Read more... )

It’s almost October, and I haven’t posted a ride report in three months: since June’s MS Ride. That’s because for the most part I haven’t been riding at all, instead spending my weekends selling off my furniture and packing up for an impending move to Pittsburgh. In the three peak months of July, August, and September, I rode a total of 450 miles; ( Read more... )

Pairing deep natural curiosity with the desire for a new programming challenge often produces great results. Such was the case with my recent addition of a Cycling Heatmap page to the biking section of my website.

I’ve always been a map geek, going all the way back to the neighborhood street maps I drew when I first started grammar school. I got ( Read more... )

Maine Line

Two weeks ago, I brought my bike up to Maine and did a short ride with the Kennebec Valley Bike Club. I rode out Route 202 to East Winthrop and met up with eight others and set out on a 30-mile trip around Cobbossee Pond.

The group were mainly fifty-ish, so the pace was pretty relaxed. It was ( Read more... )

Time for an update on all the news since the PMC.

First was Jay’s annual Labor Day BBQ and ride up Mount Wachusett (GPS log). The ride was pretty fun; after the hill climb ( Read more... )

2011 marks the first year I’ve done the Charles River Wheelmen's New Years Day ride since 2005. Being cold-averse, I’ve usually skipped ( Read more... )

I want to report on two recent rides of note.

A week ago Saturday, Jay and I drove up to Laconia, New Hampshire and did a 65-mile ride around Lake Winnipesaukee (GPS logAlthough there were no large hills, the route was constantly rolling up ( Read more... )

Lotta news in the cycling world.

First, it’s Boston’s Bike Week, which meant a brief ride from city hall to a press conference somewhere where the mayor gave a speech. This year, the ride ended on the Commonwealth Avenue mall, two blocks from my ( Read more... )

Yesterday I rode the Boston Marathon route for the first time, first from Boston out to the Hopkinton start, and then back the same way the runners do it.

While it wasn’t the most scenic ride, I did get to visit two former ( Read more... )