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Summertime, not so much in the city

I've been trying to follow Fausto Coppi's advice: "Ride a bike, ride a bike, ride a bike", which isn't all that different than Eddy Merckx's advide: "Ride lots". It's sometimes tough to follow their advice, but I've had some good motivation watching Le Tour de France this month. I think I actually had withdrawal issues afterwards, not having a new stage to watch when I got home. I didn't have high expections for the Tour this year, but it was pretty exciting - lots of changes in the yellow jersey, excitement in the mountains and a winner that could have changed until the very last stage.

After the Tour was over, I needed to focus on my big ride for the summer. This was my fifth time riding in the Princeton Event . I've chosen the century route every time and finished most of time, except when we got lost and when it was nearly 100 degrees and 100 percent humidity. It's a good, mostly flat course and goes through some beautiful farm and horse country. We had a little rain at the start but was a gorgeous summer day.

Now that the big event is done, I can get back to mountain biking and enjoy myself for the rest of the summer but not so much in the city!

Posted at 01:24AM Aug 13, 2008 by bs in Cycling  |