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 […]
The Green Machine is born. Becoming An Ancienne.
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. […]
The seed of randonneuring was planted. Becoming an Ancienne.
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 […]
Paris-Brest-Paris 2015: An Ancienne in the Le Grand Livre.
Follow a Midwest randonneur on her quest to Paris-Brest-Paris
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