Crash Ride

True Interpertation

Thought I would preserve this, I liked the captions and thought they were quite fitting for the various shots.

Crash Site

The  curve where  the crash occurred, going downhill, to fast, wet pavement, to much brake, applied to late. 

Look close and see some of my flesh I left behind.

Challenge Standing

No 5 out of 53 for advanced in age

No 31 out of 6000 something

Cool Dude

Endomondo Cycling Workout

This afternoon I rode the Suncoast Bike Trail  50.35 miles in 3h:37m:41s, my longest ride in a long time (years)

Endomondo Cycling Workout:

Made my 2011 cycling goal

Today I exceeded my 3000 mile goal for cycling this year. 

Total verifiable cycling miles

My Trek 2.3

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Picked up my new road bike today and went for a ride on the Suncoast Bike Trail for about 15 miles and not a single soul passed me, this bike is quick.
Of course I didn't see anyone else out there either. The bike weights 20.1 lbs with a water bottle, two packs of crackers, tools to fix flat when I get one.

Endomondo

I have been using Endomondo to track my daily or most days activities for awhile now. Seem to like it, simple smartphone app and the online site has good logs and graphs.

Sue's new Trek Fx 7.5

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/bike_path/fx/75fx/

Goals for 2011

Ride Harder

  Ride Faster

    Ride Stronger

The Challenge for 2011

This will make a good day trip for 2011, pack a lunch.

Way Up North

This would almost make it worth while going to Alaska.. http://contour.com/stories/112857

In the area of Pineola, Newland, Banner Elk, NC

Lees-McRae College Trail Amenities:

At an elevation of 4,000 feet, our riders train and study in some of the best terrain in the country.  We are minutes away from thousands of acres of national forest yielding over 500 miles of trails, as well as the Blue Ridge Parkway, which lines our mountain tops with over 700 miles of paved roads.  This area is truly a mountain and road cyclist’s dream with epic climbs and great descents.

Our campus sits in the shadow of Beech Mountain where Lance Armstrong renewed his passion for cycling only to win the Tour de France the very next summer.

We are also circled by three mountain resorts, all of which have downhill runs and two of which hold summer through early fall downhill races just eight miles from campus.

Lees-McRae College has two different cross country single track trail systems and a dual slalom course.
The dual slalom course and some of the single track trail systems were used for the 2007 and 2008 NCCA Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships.

The dual slalom course and pirate trails are located by the lower practice fields along the Elk River greenway.

The Nationals cross country trail system can be accessed via the Hemlock Trail off of Mill Pond Road.

There are also an extensive amount of trails in the Wilson Creek Ranger District of the Pisgah National forest.

The Boone Area Cyclists will soon be making more accurate GPS maps of the area, but for the time being much local knowledge and a map can be obtained from either of the Boone bike shops, Magic or Boone Bike & Touring.

Lees-McRae and Surrounding Area Road Amenities:

The North Carolina High Country has a plethora of rural roads with great views and epic climbs.

The Lees-McRae College Williams Gymnasium parking lot is a great place to park, begin rides, and to take advantage of restrooms and drinking water.

Virginia Creeper Trail

We, that be 8 of us are going to Damascus, VA this morning and ride the trail 18 miles all down hill .

Favorite Loop

As of now my favorite loop leaving from the campground for my daily or almost daily ride or frequent ride.
It has a variety of terrain, hills up/down, some gravel, a bit of the Blue Ridge Parkway, dogs, low traffic volume.

The Asphalt Plant Hill

Today it looked like it was going to rain, so knew I wasn't going far.   I decided to see if I could ride all the way up the hill in the asphalt plant, which has a couple of sections of 20% grade.  I usually only ride part of the way and end up walking the rest.   Well I made it all the way to the top and I thought I might die, I probable won't ride it all the way to the top again anytime soon.

Ultralight Bicycle Travel

 The ultimate way to travel

http://adventurecycling.org/features/ultralight.cfm

Gravel Grinding

Chris and I went for our Saturday ride, when we got to the fork in the road we went to the left, which is a forest road that leads to Edgemont.  One of my goals for 2010 was to ride down to Edgemont and return, I don't think it was one of Chris's though.