Well, I’m not going to do the whole ride in 9 hours. I still have 20 miles to go. The hill that we had to climb was just killer. The road mostly climbed for over 2 miles, and my climbing muscles don’t have a lot of strength left. I’ve come down from the hill now, … Read more

I’m 2/3 of the way done now. In Deerfield at the beginning of the bike path to Montague. We now get to follow the path to Turners Falls.

I’m just over halfway at this point, having finished the first loop. The second loop promises a lot less climbing, so hopefully I’ll still make my time goal. They started us off at 7:10, so I’m shooting for being back here at 4:10.

I’ve reached the second stop, in downtown Conway. We’re 40 miles in, and it’s about 14 miles to the Food Bank, where I’ll start the second loop.

I’ve reached the first rest stop, and am about 26 miles into the route. There was a lot of hill climbing in the first half, but I expect things to get a little faster after this.

I’m at the Food Bank HQ, and will be starting in a few minutes. It’s foggy and cold right now, buy those will change.

Readers will recall that, last year, to celebrate my 40th birthday, I biked to Boston and back.  On the way out there, as well as on the way back, I rode on a small section of what will eventually be the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail, running the length of the state.  The section I was … Read more

In early August I went for a ride to the North.  Specifically, I was headed for Northfield, which I had ridden through 2 years ago on my way to Brattleboro, VT.  I took pretty much the same route up there, going through the UMass campus into North Amherst, then heading through Leverett and Montague.  At … Read more

The Farmington Canal Trail is part of what will eventually be continuous recreation trail stretching all the way from New Haven, CT to Northampton, MA.  Currently, that trail runs from the town of Farmington, CT north up to the Massachusetts line, where the Columbia Greenway continues the trail into the city of Westfield.  Including bits … Read more

This post officially announces that I’m signed up to ride in the 2013 Will Bike 4 Food event.  As mentioned in my last post, I couldn’t do last year’s ride because of pain in my knee.  However, I have taken steps to prevent that from happening again.  There is now less than a week to … Read more