Today was a hard day for me mentally and physically. To start, we came right ouside of the parking lot of the hotel and started on a climb up pinto summit. About 2/3 of the way up, we ran into some bikers riding to Virginia. I got a good rest and then started up while [...]

Eureka to about 30 miles east of Ely, NV. My stats for today (from my bike computer): 107 miles, average speed 15.6 (a new average speed record), time on the bike: 7:05 hours, high speed 41.7mph. Wow, today could be considered the Day of Days for this week. Starting in Eureka, you start climbing immediately [...]

Ride from Reno – Day 3 With hours in the saddle and not much more to do than peddle, watch the desert go by and think about tasks to be done, I had tonight’s blog all planned out.  However, it was all washed away on Connors Summit.  We thought we were getting wet the last [...]

And I thought yesterday was grueling. Yesterday’s greatest effort was just pushed to second place. Today was five climbs with the baby being 6,517 and the beast at 7,722 feet. As if that wasn’t enough, it rained and rained, and rained. I finished the ride soaking wet, to the skin, through my water-resistant gear (where [...]

I woke up this morning thinking about cancer and it was on my mind all day. I couldn’t help it! I had a chemical burn on the left side of my tongue this morning, and my first thought was, “Oh, crap! I fell asleep with my trays in my mouth!” Because of all the radiation I had in [...]