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3Sep/111

Bicycle Ride on a Little Ole Hill

Posted by Vaughn Ripley

I have wanted to do the 54-mile Mount Weather loop ever since I heard it existed. It is dubbed as one of the toughest hill climbs in my area. It’s also one of the most [...]

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7Aug/110

Ninety-Eight More to Go!

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A year ago I set a stiff goal for myself ... I decided to complete 100 triathlons in my lifetime. Well, I just came back from number two.

This was [...]

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15Apr/116

We’ve all been there … Each and every one of us über fitness nuts have brief stints where we fight internally and struggle to get a simple workout in. I’m fighting that battle on a regular basis. So I thought I would put some of my thoughts down to share with some of you.

It seems tougher and tougher to get a [...]

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14Sep/101

Century Bicycle Ride to the Beach

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In keeping with my plan to participate in three major events each year of the rest of my life, I rode a 100+ mile bicycle ride with some of my best friends. We decided to ride from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Ocean City, Maryland.

You can see [...]

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1Sep/102

My First Triathlon

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Okay, so it was only a mini-sprint (think real short, like George Castanza in a cold swimming pool) ...

The race broke down like this [...]

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22Sep/0912

C&O Canal Ride 2009 from D.C. to Cumberland

Posted by Vaughn Ripley

"Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic."
-- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Friday, September 19, 2009 at 6:31 a.m. Andrew and I started loading our bicycles on my truck. We packed tons of Gu, power bars and bottles of water. We piled into my FJ Cruiser and headed to Pete’s house. Our plan was simple (they always start that way) [...]

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17May/091

Epic Bicycle Trek

Posted by Vaughn Ripley

I embellish… It wasn’t an epic in the true sense of the word. But, for Pete and me, yesterday’s ride was a small epic.

We decided to ride the Poolesville, Maryland loop based on a local rider’s [...]

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3May/091

Bad Weather Didn’t Hinder

Posted by Vaughn Ripley

Pete and I rode 40 miles roundtrip today. It was horrendous weather... The rain was coming down pretty hard and the canal towpath was a solid trail of puddles, washouts and mud. 3/4 of the way through my trek and I started getting a chill that burned to the bone. My teeth chattered. [...]

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3May/092

Starting Out and Getting In Shape

Posted by Vaughn Ripley

We will be riding the C&O Canal from Washington D.C. to Cumberland, MD in the Fall of 2009. We'll be doing this over the course of three days on our bicycles.

I've started my training and I realized that [...]

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