I managed to reach my weekly goal of 100 km this past week with a just short of 30 km performance on Sunday or more than 28% of the weekly total. One thing I’ve learned is to neither set goals too high nor too low. Consider taking an average-month total and dividing that by four …
Sign Warning of 10 Percent Grade On Thursday we rode the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail in Northern Michigan. The trail has at least 4 climbs with gradients greater than 9 percent. After climbing out of the saddle up a very short 11-grade hill, we rolled on to the next one. The hills are all marked …
Early Sunday morning I rolled out onto the Tart trail in Traverse City, MI and picked up the Leelanau Trail north toward Sutton’s Bay. I’m summering on the scenic and beautiful Northwestern part of the lower Peninsula in MI. Monday morning I rode the Leelanau Trail again. There were no sightings of wildlife except for …
At 10K we are unabashed in our riding. Recently I was at a store picking up a few items. The clerk asked how I was. I mentioned all the smoke outside (from Canadian wildfires) and went on to say that I had ridden my bicycle. We had a nice conversation as he was completing the …