Three months from today, I’ll hopefully make it four years of daily cycling. For April-June 2023, I didn’t travel as far as January-March. I came up a couple hundred miles behind the goal for the year. In my last post, I encouraged you to ride your own Tour de YOU. That’s how I’m thinking about my biking these days in light of that little bike race going on across the pond, something called Le Tour de France. As always in these sort of taking stock blogs, I refer to my Strava fitness app stats. So let’s take a look.
Continue readingMonth: July 2023
7/7/2023: Forget France! Ride The Tour de YOU & Fight Climate Change
It’s July and sunflower season, so that means it’s Tour Time. That is, Le Tour de France, that grueling 3,000-kilometer bike race and tourist advert. Sure, there are two other grand tours: the Giro d’Italia in June and La Vuelta de Espana later in summer. But France is the big dance. I used to be an avid watcher of it, then stopped for a while due to a certain disgraced US rider who was based here in Austin, Texas. I began watching it again, and then stopped again. Mostly because of the huge time suck involved watching andn not knowng many of the new crop of riders. I kinda miss it, but I’m just trying to make sure I get on my own bike every day. The spectacle of the Tour is captivating and the stories are interesting. But what if we got curious and made our own stories more interesting? What if we could find fascination in our short rides to the store, or the commute to work, the weekend jaunts on the trail, and more?
Continue reading
A Dude Abikes 