My cycling journal
From the monthly archives:
Authors note: My baby brother Andrew just bought a road bike in his quest to become a competitive triathlete. I was about to fire off a congratulatory email with a bunch of my opinions on gear, training, etc to help him get started then thought it might be useful for others too.
Dear Andrew-
Congrats on [...]
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I’m so stoked, I can hardly maintain. I just bought this mountain bike!
I used to mountain bike years ago, before I got into road cycling with such passion. In fact, the reason I quit mountain biking was that I wore out my bike, which I take as a good sign.
With my Tour de France adventure over, [...]
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I had been getting my ass kicked all day. It was supposed to be 80 easy miles along the coast. I was supposed to have easily taken every town sign. But here I was, struggling to stay on the wheel of some twentysomething-triathlete-hero grinding 25mph along the flats, losing every town sign.
There were two new [...]
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My friend Ajay is currently the fifth most successful fundraiser for the upcomming MS Bike Tour, having raised $4,832 so far in the fight against MS!
Ajay is a founding member of Team Climb On! and was our leading fundraiser in our innaugural appearance at the MS Bike Tour last year. He’s the guy in the [...]
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Team Climb On Rides, originally uploaded by Arlyn Asch.
Can you believe we got eleven bikes on the train this morning?
Riding back from Anaheim - 80 miles along the coast, training for the
MS Bike Tour.
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Remember when they said that computers and the internet would isolate us from each other? They said we’d spend all day inside, “playing” with computers, disconnected from the “real world”…
Here’s a map that Google Analytics provides which shows the global distribution of web traffic to this site over the last 30 days. Make sure you click [...]
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One of my first adventures after getting back on a road bike was riding last year’s MS Bike Tour. It was my first century ride ever and my first exposure to charity bike rides.
With just a month to go before this year’s MS Bike Tour kicks off, I have to thank everyone who has so generously [...]
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I love riding to Julian. I’ve been there 3 times in the last month. At around 85 miles with over 7,000 feet of elevation gain, it’s a really hard course for me and I always suffer in the last 10 or 20 miles. I keep going back for more because Suffering and I are in [...]
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Pie!, originally uploaded by Arlyn Asch.
Pie is always good.
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Headed to Julian with Rob, originally uploaded by Arlyn Asch.
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