Every spot where my body touches the bicycle was steaming. And not in a good way.

Jill christened it the Cheddarhead Epic Invitational, and oddly enough, it was the second (non consecutive) labor day weekend where we brought Wisconsinites on this strung-together route that is more down then up, but hola is there some biking.

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So last weekend was slightly abusive to the body.

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So it's Pedalpalooza in Portland, and I last night I did my first Pedalpalooza bike ride. I was the XKCD themed ride, and had 20-30 riders on it.

If you don't read XKCD comics, go do so - I'll wait. Hit "random" a few times.

(whistles)

Okay, it's geeky and and it's stick figures. How do you theme a bike ride with that?

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Eventually, we struck snow. Thus goes my riding weekend.

Actually, the weather was great. We had a moderately pleasant camp at Lake Billy Chinook, and rolled into Bend Saturday morning. You know how on your first camping trip of the year, you forget something? Well, we apparently forgot any map of the bike trail or town. We dead-reckoned ( Read more... )

Finally coughing less. It's sunny and warmish. I'm getting prepped for an mtb ride, and I'm trying to remember the last time I was on the double boinger.

And failing. It's been more then 2 weeks. Last ride was probably Syncline, but exactly when? I'm not sure.

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