Bill Strickland wrote an article in Bicycling magazine about the implications of Lance Armstrong’s doping. A commenter there summed up my own thoughts.
The path less traveled.
Tag: Cycling
Each year in May, my wife and I head to Ronda, to participate with 7,000 others in the 101km of Ronda event. Here’s the story of 2012.
Description and photos from a beautiful bike ride in the Sierra de las Nieves.
It’s October, and that means it’s the season for the chestnut harvest in the nearby Valle del Genal.
We left Marbella this morning around 10am, heading up the Carretera de Ronda where we stopped (as usual) at the Venta Navisillo for a late-morning breakfast. It was an absolutely beautiful morning — cool, crisp, sunny and blue. Perfect for a bike ride.
Each year in March, “La Sufrida” organize an event in Ronda, Spain, in homage to their annual “101km of Ronda” race (which takes place in May). The March “Homenaje,” just like its big brother in May, offers three modes of participation — a 69 km mountain bike ride, a 44 km run or a 70 km duathlon (run and bike). Last weekend, Pino and I participated in the event — her doing the run (crazy, I know), and me doing the mountain bike ride.
For quite some time now, my primary way to read books has been the Palm device. eBooks, as they are known, can be stored on…
El equipazo de Matt Henderson y Carlos Cortes, trabajando duramente y con mucha colaboracion, ha batido el record mundial de ir en bici desde Marbella…
It was the “Queen Stage” of the season — the long and mighty climb to towards Ronda and the “Cruz de Hierro” (the Iron Cross).…
Months of training finally produced some results today. For the first time since my injury last year, I was able to stay with the pack…
I’ve been an avid cyclist, cycling fan and Lance Armstrong fan, since, well, longer than I prefer to remember or state here. So you can…
With three cycling clubs in a small town like Marbella, you can imagine that its a fairly popular sport here. A friend of mine (Diego…
In the biggest win of his career, Tyler Hamilton becomes the first American to win the Liége-Bastogne-Liége, one of Europe’s most important cycling events! Although…
