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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE GREEN MACHINE A beautiful 2007 green Rivendell Rambouilliet came into my possession in mid April 2015 from Bob Booth, a friend of Eric Peterson and fellow randonneur from Madison, Wisconsin. […]
WHY PARIS-BREST-PARIS? One of the most frequent questions I was asked along the PBP route when people found out I was new to both randonneuring and Paris-Brest-Paris was, “What brought […]
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