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Chris heads to the wild area that connects Prospect Park and Lower Purgatory to cure his EDD (Environmental Deficit Disorder)

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The weather cools down and Chris sends out an Easter message.

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Chris takes his riding offroad

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A cycling shoutout to my peeps.

Another milestone passed

I crossed the 19,000 mile threshold just a few minutes ago and I have to say it felt good. This marks 19,000 total miles ridden on a bicycle since I started keeping track in 1983. I logged over 2,000 miles in 1985 alone so in 25+ years 19,000 is nothing special. Sure, these are tiny [...]

Stat error in my favor

We all remember the Monopoly card which awarded us with an unexpected $200. It was a wonderful turn of events in the imaginary world of green houses and red hotels, but these things don’t happen in real life. Well, maybe not 200 smackers – but errors sometimes do turn out good. I discovered on this [...]

The Tour de 20K begins today

I did just over five miles today on my bike and started thinking about a goal.  Last year was one of my worst in terms of total mileage and I think its time to get my butt back in gear. Rather than just do something simple like set a goal of “ride more” or “ride [...]

Man, that felt good!

As you have seen in the previous post, I just returned from a bike ride. I ended up doing a short little 15-mile jaunt through some of countryside surrounding San Marcos and it was great. Multimedia snafus aside, it was great to be out there spinning down the road. I went against the wind on [...]

Whaaaaaaaaa?

That is what I said over the phone to my buddy Mike Wright this afternoon.  His response?  “I know what you just saw.”  Yeah, we were both looking up some high school football schedules on the Houston Chronicle’s website, both hit the sports section at the same time, and both saw this: Yeah.  This is [...]

Kudos once again to Le Tour