Well, I’m at the first rest stop, about one third of the way done. It took me 1 hour and 10 minutes to get here, which included a 5-minute stop to rest and take pics. Below are pictures of the start of the race, a mountain view along route 41 in Richmond, and the rest … Read more

I’m at Bousquet ski area, the starting and ending point for the MS ride. They have free wi-fi here, so I have a pretty fast connection. Those of us riding 50 miles begin in abot 25 minutes. Just having a bit of food before I get ready to set out. It’s a bit chilly – … Read more

So I have an iPhone that I got as a hand-me-down earlier this year. I’m writing this post on the phone, using the WordPress app. If this works well, I’ll be able to do some better liveblogging of my ride this Saturday than I was able to do last year. If you can see a … Read more

This past Saturday I went for my final training ride.  I set out for the City of Westfield, which I’ve never been in, except for traveling through it on the Mass Pike. I started out heading over the river into Northampton, and then went South on route 5 so I could pick up the Manhan … Read more

This past Sunday, I went for a longer ride than my previous few, up to the village of Turners Falls.  It is not its own municipality – rather the village is part of the Town of Montague, which generally lies across the Connecticut River from Greenfield and Deerfield. It was almost a straight North ride … Read more

I went for a ride on Labor Day, and my main destination was a place that’s not very well-known around here, and even less visited.  But I’ll get to that in a bit.  First, I headed over to Northampton and checked out the new bike trail that runs North-South along the train tracks: It seems … Read more

This is my final post from the trip to Canada last month.  Toward the end of the week there, I got a chance to go hiking in Kouchibouguac National Park, which is about an hour North of the city of Moncton. Something that’s interesting about the park is the variety of different types of forest … Read more

Training ride number 3 took place on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend.  I decided to tackle a feat that I’d been thinking about for the better part of 2 years.  I was going to ride up Mount Holyoke. Mt. Holyoke is the Westernmost peak in the Holyoke range, and it forms the bulk of … Read more

While in Canada we took a day trip to Belfast Mini Mills on Prince Edward Island, just as we did in June of 2007. The company makes small machines for every step of the fiber milling process (from raw fiber to yarn), and they also run a mill operation themselves.  This is the mill building: … Read more

My second training ride occurred during the last weekend of August.  I went to a location I’d biked to a few times before, including on my first training ride in 2007.  That place is the Quabbin Reservoir.  To get there, I headed East from our house through Amherst and into Belchertown, stopping off at our … Read more