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TweetAccomplishments this season … – learned how to paceline – rode over 1,800 miles – increased my speed from 13mph on average to 15.5 mph on average – really increased my hill-climbing abilities – had three low speed tip overs and a couple of nice scars on my knees but … most importantly! NO FLAT […]
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Tweet27th Annual El Tour de Tucson 109 Miles … Silver Medal We did it! My personal fundraising goal was $4,300. Made it! My personal riding goal was to complete the 109 mile race. Did it! In fact, there were hundreds of people from around the country who raised money and trained as a part of […]
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TweetWe rode in the Merrimack Valley again today for a grand total of 82.5 miles in 5.5 hours of actual pedalling! Our route was 50 miles from north andover to middleton then out to ipswich and back to north andover, then we had an extra 30 mile loop through andover, boxford and georgetown, etc. As you can […]
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TweetAnna and I decide to ditch the team ride for a couple of reasons 1. the town we meet in is an hour away and not interesting/scenic 2. we can get the ride done faster on our own So, we mapped a route that started us at Michelle’s house in North Andover and then […]
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TweetThis past Saturday was another training ride. We all met out in Boxboro at 8am and the plan was to have a tire changing clinic along with riding a 35 mile route. Our coach, Anna, had a new trick up her sleeve. 😉 She placed all of the big hills at the END of the […]
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TweetThe first weekend in August was a weekend that had been planned since May! My friend Jeanne started triathloning about three years ago and now she does the 70.3 category — half ironman! So her saturday training ride are consistently about 5o miles. Michelle and me decided to head to NYC for a weekend and […]
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TweetTeam in Training is a six month training program. It starts off easy and then gets steadily harder. As an example, the first week of training (back in June) only required about 40 miles on the bike, but by November I will be riding about 200 miles each week before tapering before the big race. […]
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TweetI have been really delinquent and not kept up with my blogging. Good thing is that I have kept up with my biking! 🙂 I had dinner with my friend Michelle tonight — her mom is Joan (pictured here). Joan has been fighting cancer for about six years now. First Joan was diagnosed with breast […]
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TweetI have been really delinquent and not kept up with my blogging. Good thing is that I have kept up with my biking! 🙂 I had dinner with my friend Michelle tonight — her mom is Joan (pictured here). Joan has been fighting cancer for about six years now. First Joan was diagnosed with breast […]
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TweetThis past Saturday we met for our first official training ride. It was only 15 miles, but it was great. Our route was mostly flat and we departed from the Bedford parking lot at the end of the MinuteMan trail. I practiced my new pedaling technique and instantly knew when I’d reverted to quads and […]
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