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View Larger Map It’s kind of pathetic when the longest ride of the year is about 37 miles long and completely wipes you out. On the other hand, I’m glad I’ve been pushing myself the past 10 days to make sure I get miles in … Back to Utah tomorrow. [...] View Larger Map View Larger Map EDEN Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms like brains lashed to fans- even they think of cool paradise, Not this sterile air-conditioned chill or the Arizona hell in which they sway becomingly. Every time I return to Phoenix I see these palms as a child’s height marks on a kitchen wall, taller now [...] View Larger Map A couple of photos from my drive home from my mom’s house in Fountain Hills, Arizona on the 28th of December … these two shots were taken on Highway 89, somewhere near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; the first image is of the mountain going up the right side of the road … [...] View Ascent activity on 24-Dec-09 at 12:50PM in a larger map That hurt. I think it was the 18% gradient on Golden Eagle and similar 10% plus grades on Sunset Ridge. Five days in a row on the bike. For me that’s a lot, even though I only averaged about 18.5 miles each day … [...] View Ascent activity on 23-Dec-09 at 01:47PM in a larger map Tried a new route today. According to the maps, the main road within McDowell Mountain Regional Park goes all the way through and connects with Rio Verde, so the plan was to do that and then come back along the main road between Rio [...] View Ascent activity on 22-Dec-09 at 01:22PM in a larger map Today was not Arizona weather … cold (mid 50s) and overcast from the get-go, and about 5 miles in it started lightly raining on me. When the lightning cracked immediately overhead about 5 minutes later, I decided it was time to tuck tail and [...] View Ascent activity on 21-Dec-09 at 11:44AM in a larger map Headed north out of Fountain Hills today towards Rio Verde and Nine Mile Hill. No, I didn’t ride Nine Mile Hill, but kept going straight past Rio Verde Road into the Tonto National Forest towards Needle Rock. Weather was great, overcast and cool (low-to-mid [...] |
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