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RIDE FACTS From: Yorktown, VATo: Williamsburg, VADistance: 16.86 milesTime: 1:46:24View Garmin Data >
I know, I know. I didn’t get very far. But the start is the start is the start and you only start once. And I started. Though it feels like I’m starting twice because I’d stayed in…
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50% FAILURE. 100% OVERALL SUCCESS
Welcome to the hinky math ride report, alternate title “A comedy of awesome errors”.
This past weekend, I decided to do a fully-loaded trial run out to Beaver Pond Campsite near Lake Welch. I chose this location for two reasons.
1. To get to it, I would…
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One of the nagging little voices in my head has been having a red-hot go lately at making me feel like I’m going to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken Precious and no idea what to do about it.
“Shut up, nagging voice!” I say….
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UGG UGG FIRE UGG UGG
I’m a bit of a fire girl. And by that, I mean that while camping in my youth, I always exercised my dominance over fire and harnessed it inside a circle of rocks beaten smooth by a river. Or something. And over that fire, I…
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Or 100 Miles of somewhere?
I had to think long and hard before deciding that I wouldn’t be entering the 100 Miles of Nowhere this year. Very long. Very hard. (That’s what she said. What?) Two things made me disqualify myself. It is with shameful regret that I will now…
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MY KINGDOM FOR A TENT
I’m a little worried. Worried that I’m enjoying the accumulation of gear a little too much. That I find too much joy in researching camping materials and gnatty little moisture wicking technologies. That I squee too hard when I find something that weighs next to…
Writer. Rider. This is where I collect the fruits of those two things.