TagsTagsToday’s ride: 41.04 miles, bringing the total for the weekend to 95.24 miles. It rained a bit last night and the weather today was excellent, with air about as fresh and clean as Los Angeles ever gets. But this was the Day of the Oblivious, with an amazing number of ...
Today’s ride: 54.20 miles, on a day that started out threatening to rain but got over it and turned into a great day for riding—partly cloudy, not too warm, not too cold. A bit windy, but not quite in the fascist zone; you might call it a Gramscian wind instead, ...
Today’s ride: 55.64 miles, south into the wilds of primitive Palos Verdes, rolling at a medium-hard pace through that Southern Californ-eye-aye sunshine. Did a training climb around the PV Country Club on a semi-secret route that’s fairly difficult (you don’t make it without standing on the pedals), but worth it ...
Total distance over the weekend: 87 miles, on some different routes, up north into the Palisades (past the house of a woman cyclist I knew who was killed by a motorist) for some difficult climbing. Very chilly in the morning, warming up in the afternoon to the point where I ...
I wasn’t going to ride today, because the forecast was rain and I’m not that hardcore. (It isn’t the rain that bothers me, it’s cleaning the bike afterward.) But when it became clear that the almighty weatherbot had short-circuited again and the rain wasn’t going to materialize, I threw the ...