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Day 45: The Gristle Grind Day

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March 27, 2011

RIDE FACTS Date: September 09, 2010From: Pueblo Airport, COTo: Florence, CODistance: 48.12 milesTime: 5:22:45View Garmin Data >

Meat tearing and re-tearing. The gnaw and groan of muscle and gristle as it fights against the protesting crank. The uphill. Actual uphill—not the slow, lazy yawn of Kansas to this very point—works…


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Day 42: The Read the Signs Day

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January 21, 2011

RIDE FACTS Date: September 06, 2010From: Ordway, CO To: Pueblo Airport, CODistance: 45.10 milesTime: 4:39:26View Garmin Data >

I don’t believe in signs. STOP signs, sure. They’re not wired to lie, set—as they are—in intersectional domination at the corner of ‘oh crapsticks!’, and ‘this is gonna hurt’. Hand on Santa’s…


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Day 41: The Fantastic Mr. Fox Day

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December 12, 2010

RIDE FACTSDate: September 05, 2010From: Eads, COTo: Ordway, CODistance: 62.89 milesTime: 7:00:22View Garmin Data >

White jawed and invisible whiskered, I watch him watching me watch him and gently continue my pedal towards his mark. In the crisp morning, the horizon has an endless girth. From eye-corner to eye-corner. Flat,…


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Day 40: The No Country For Old Broads Day

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November 23, 2010

RIDE FACTSDate: September 04, 2010From: Scott City, KSTo: Eads, CODistance: 104.04 milesTime: 10:58:43View Garmin Data >

This is pure Friendo country. Sparse. Vacant. Moody. The wind shimmies through the grass, getting busy in that Hawaiian skirt way, and there I am. I fly, fly, fly along the skillet-flat earth. In…


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Day 39: The Geometry Day

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November 13, 2010

RIDE FACTS Date: September 03, 2010From: Bazine, KS To: Scott City, KS Distance: 68.74 milesTime: 6:48:54View Garmin Data >

“I’m missing a…”

I want to say thong, but I know that’s wrong. That thong is a very different breed of noun here. That to say that I’m missing one sends an…


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Day 38: The Devil Day

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November 8, 2010
“That storm’s coming for me,” I joke to myself, immediately thinking “That’ll make a nice first line for today’s blog.” A storm coming for me. Nice semi-dramatic lead.
Janeen McCrae
Santa Cruz, CA

Writer. Rider. This is where I collect the fruits of those two things.

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