2018 Coulee Challenge 1200k Grand Randonnee Day 1: Apple Valley, Minnesota to Black River Falls, Wisconsin USA
2018 Inaugural Coulee Challenge Grand Randonnee Midwest Hill Repeat Jubilee in Midwest, USA 1204km/753 miles of Driftless Heaven August 13-16th, 2018 Apple Valley, MN USA ENDLESS BLUFFS MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI RIVER […]
Coulee Challenge 1200k Grand Randonnee: The Midwest Hill Repeat Jubilee 2018
2018 Inaugural Coulee Challenge Grand Randonnee Midwest Hill Repeat Jubilee in Midwest, USA 1204km/753 miles of Driftless Heaven August 13-16th, 2018 Apple Valley, MN USA ENDLESS BLUFFS MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI RIVER […]
TRUE GRIT. LOOSE GRAVEL. Where the road ends, gravel begins. Pacific Atlantic Cycling (PAC) Tour Inaugural Gravel Camp 2018
Upon completing Paris-Brest-Paris in 2015, I joined the Ultramarathon Cycling Association (UMCA). My goal was to learn about additional cycling opportunities that would push my boundaries. In 2016 and 2017, […]
5 Myths about Randonneuring: The “Melting Pot” of Cycling
Are you looking for a new cycling goal or adventure? Have you ever finished a 100 mile ride and wondered how much further you could have gone? If you are fit, able to […]
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 […]
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