The Yellow Brick Road is Made of Gravel: Dirty Kanza 2016
GRIT. GRAVEL. GRIND. FIND YOUR LIMIT. “We’re off to see the wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz We hear he is a whiz of a wiz, if ever a wiz […]
Fat Bike Birkie 2016: the “Big Fat” 47km race
What a difference a year makes! My numbers speak my truth. Last year in my first Fat Bike event and my first Fat Bike Birkie 47K Race: My finish time was 4:05:50.15 […]
REFLECTING ON PARIS-BREST-PARIS 2015.
Je suis un randoneeur. Je suis un ancienne. WITH GRATITUDE Six months after I finished the ride, I received my Paris-Brest-Paris medal, brevet card and official PBP video. As I opened the brevet […]
The finish of Paris-Brest-Paris 2015. I AM AN ANCIENNE!
THE FINISH “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor […]
Dreux: At the last control at Paris-Brest-Paris 2015. Becoming an Ancienne.
DREUX, FRANCE From the previous control in Mortagne-au-Perche to Dreux, I had covered 48 miles in the final stretch of Paris-Brest-Paris 2015. These miles were interesting, very slow and extremely challenging. Hallucinations were common as I […]
From Mortagne-au-Perche to Dreux at Paris-Brest-Paris 2015. Becoming an Ancienne.
Pedal. Smile. Repeat. Pedal. Smile. Repeat. Pedal….Pedal…Pedal… IRREPRESSIBLE It is amazing how our bodies work and how far we can push ourselves to the point of extreme exhaustion. I was existing on 4 […]
Leaving Loudeac on the final leg into Paris on Paris-Brest-Paris 2015. Becoming an Ancienne.
EAT. SLEEP. RIDE. REPEAT. I arrived into Loudeac at 12:45 am on the 2nd leg of Paris-Brest-Paris 2015 (PBP) after completing another 207 miles or 333km with 11,604 feet of climbing in […]
Halfway point into Brest on PBP. Becoming an Ancienne.
BREST On the first leg of Paris-Brest-Paris 2015, I arrived at the hotel in Loudeac after 278 miles (448km with 13,301 feet of climbing). It was 9:00 pm. Time was of an essence, […]
Paris-Brest-Paris begins… Becoming an Ancienne.
THE RIDE We lined up at the start for our departure at 8:00 pm on Sunday, August 16th in the T-wave, the last 90 hour group to leave the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines […]
The Velodrome. Becoming an Ancienne.
PARIS We left Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday, August 12th 2015 and arrived in Paris four days before the start of Paris-Brest-Paris. We wanted to get acclimated to the time […]
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