Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: Cape Cod with Team Kinetic Karma
by After riding Thursday with Team Kinetic Karma, I was up early again Friday morning to get dropped off for the start of Day Two Reimagined with Team …
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Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: Day One with Team Kinetic Karma
The alarm clock hurt. It was just a few short hours since I had gotten home from Wednesday’s Day Zero. I had to get to …
Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: Reverse Cape
My belly felt good after last night’s ice cream ride. I would need it. Today was going to be a BIG day. This was to …
Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: Ice Cream Ride
I have a regular ride on Friday nights to Bedford Farms Ice Cream. Since the Pan Mass Challenge was reimagined, I imagined having ice cream …
Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: Family Ride
My family has always come out to cheer me on during the Pan Mass Challenge. But they have never ridden it with me. With the …
Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: North to South
It was back on the bike Sunday morning. My legs were really tired after yesterday’s James Taylor ride. Today, my inspiration was direction. We always …
Pan Mass Challenge Reimagined: James Taylor Day
I started off Saturday morning at the New York border. This PMC ride was James Taylor Day, inspired by the lines from Sweet Baby James: “So …
My 2019 on the Bike
It was 5000 miles on the bike for me in 2019. That was about 350 hours of time on the bike saddle. About half of …
Sandy Neck Fat Bike Winter Classic
Every now and then I switch up bikes and trade the skinny road bike for off-trail adventures on a fat bike. The description of the …
LiveSTRONG 2019
Captain Branfman convinced me to head down to Austin for the LiveSTRONG Challenge. LiveSTRONG is the successor to the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Mr. Armstrong and …
JDRF Ride Saratoga Springs 2019
This year was first cycling a Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund ride. Of the six, Saratoga Springs was the closest so I raised some money, packed …
Pan Mass Challenge 2019
It started in Lenox. We stayed in a perfectly nice AirBnB on Old Stockbridge Road Thursday night. At the crack of dawn we pedaled out, …
Bike for Brent 2019
by It was the last Bike for Brent. The organizing committee decided that ten years of putting so much time and energy into planning and supporting …
Pan Mass Challenge 2018
by Dark clouds, bolts of lightning and heavy rain were ahead. It was a gloomy ride out to the western end of Massachusetts for me, Reno …
My 2017 on the Bike
I spent many hours in the bike saddle in 2017. In early January I looked at the 4,783 miles I had biked in 2016. I …
Cycling the Streets of Brookline
I use Strava to track my bike rides. (I like data.) The website’s heat map tracks my rides showing where I have cycled and where …
Pan Mass Challenge 2017
The Pan Mass Challenge is a physical and emotional roller coaster. 2017 was no different. The first downward plunge happened a few weeks before the …
Bike to Becket 2017
Both kids have escaped Newton to spend four weeks of summer camp in the Berkshires. Last weekend was parents’ weekend and I was expected to …
