So I ordered a 2006 Specialized Roubaix Expert Triple from my LBS. It came in last night. I’m very excited about it. You can see a picture of the model here.

Today I would have gone to the bike shop to perform a final “user acceptance test” test ride, except it was pouring out all day. Oddly, looking at WHDH, NWS, and Intellicast, their long-range ( Read more... )

Mmmm. Last weekend: 125 miles. This weekend: 132 miles. Those are pretty prodigious numbers, even for me.

Actually, this weekend would have been higher, if the weather had cooperated. Saturday was the usual Quad Cycles ride. Although the forecast said 70 percent chance of rain, it looked like the sun might break through, and the radar showed rain ( Read more... )

Today was another big adventure. All summer long I've been fascinated by the first graph on Doug Jansen's Northeast Road Hill Climb Profiles page. It lists eleven of the longest and steepest paved summit ( Read more... )

Follow this link for my full 2003 Pan-Mass Challenge ride report.

Bike Week continued with the Charles River Wheelmen-sponsored "Mean Streets: Boston" ride. This was a short 12-mile ride through some of the city's back streets, alleys, and wharves, but made more challenging by the New England weather. Fifteen minutes before the ride it was clear and sunny; as the ride began, the skies suddenly opened up in a ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't write anything here about the actual PMC ride, but you can read all about it in my Travelogue, which comes in both a Short and Long version!

This morning I decided I hadn't had enough rain, so I participated in a 34-mile cycling architectural tour of Boston that ran from midnight to 8am, and about half that time it was raining! Good ( Read more... )

Follow this link for my full 2001 Pan-Mass Challenge ride report.

Final update before the ride. Did over 150 miles this week, thanks to the Cape Ann cruise, and my fundraising at the time of the ride is $2260! But an inauspicious start to the ride, as the night before the ride was a horrible storm that prevented me from getting home. So today I start the ride in off-and-on rain, without having eaten much in the ( Read more... )

Began a new project at a client site on Totten Pond in Waltham, a 15-mile ride from home. Began using the daily commute as the motivator to increase my training miles from my winter average of 50 miles per week up to more than twice what I'd been doing. Today was made a more challenging ride because in three places the bike path was beneath the ( Read more... )