Category: Cycling & Running
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Reaching Higher Ground with Google Maps
The ever-excellent Google Maps mashup Google Pedometer has recently added an “elevation” feature, allowing you not only to see how far you walked, ran, cycled, or drove, but also to see how far up and down you went along the way. You simply click the “elevation” link and it displays a scrolling iframe with your…
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USA vs UK Cycling
The ads below are both for an innovative new type of bicycle, the high-end “townie”. These are bikes that are designed for everyday use by people wearing normal clothes, but unlike traditional city bikes, these townies use high-quality parts and materials, and are elegantly and stylishly designed. When I first started seeing ads for these…
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My First Race
Heading for the starting line. I did my first bike race today! Peggy and I showed up at the crack of dawn this morning at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for a 6-lap, 20 mile road race. It was thrilling to ride with over a hundred other riders, thirty of them in my racing class (Category-5, the…
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Entrepreneur vs. Athlete
I am going to enter some bicycle races this year. I’m learning, however, that training to race can require a massive, life-altering level of commitment. Specifically, it requires huge amounts of time, time that a person like me might not realistically ever have. Is it possible for a business owner/entrepreneur to also be a competitive…
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My New “Disk” Wheels
I bought a wind trainer about a year ago but I’ve never actually used it because I was always afraid my adventurous little cat Nike would stick her paw in my back wheel. When I noticed a neighbor was throwing out a large roll of carbon fiber, my mind clicked: Disk wheels! So this weekend…