AZT press

Here is Bryan Lee’s article on the AZT ride:

Arizona, Bottom to Top

and

Odyssey on Wheels

He did a great job telling a hard-to-describe story. The only error was a minor one — the GDR is 2500 miles, not 625!! 625 miles was the distance I made it before dropping out.

I’m …. [Continue reading]

Cycling Fun

Lee’s seen the AZT light. Have you?

Saturday was an awesome Redington Loop. Lee and I climbed Redington Rd together at about midday. The traffic was surprisingly low for a beautifully warm December day. No wind today. I rode with short sleeves the whole time.

At 3 feathers we turned off towards …. [Continue reading]

Totals

2005 is coming to an end, so I thought I might look at how much GPS data I collected this year. Here are the stats from TopoFusion’s logbook:

7162.34 mi (2115.21 mi uphill, 2201.25 mi downhill, 2741.14 mi flat) 689050 ft total ascent (692276 ft descent) – 7.7 % uphill grade, 23.3 % downhill grade …. [Continue reading]

Weekend

This weekend we continued building AZ Trail near Highway 83. Bernie, Doc, Carrie and I spent Thursday doing the final layout. Then Saturday about 40 people showed up to tear it up. As usual, we had some good folks on the crews and it was a nice day to get out. I got quite a …. [Continue reading]

Happening

Yeah, it’s a happening time, for better or worse.

TopoFusion was down for almost a week! Ouucch. The server’s root drive crashed and they had it back running a few days later. But for whatever reason they didn’t get things set back up for topofusion.com for several more days, so we’ve now bailed to another …. [Continue reading]