It was good to get back to Joaquin Miller; looking back at my photos, training for Unipal took us to other, longer rides, so we’d only been there once in 2015. (How is that possible?) There are a good number of changes since we were last there. The staircase by the old burned-down building has […]
It’s taken a while to dig out from under the pile of memories and photographs I brought home from the Nepal trip, made all the more poignant by the devastating earthquake which struck just a few hours after the last of our group boarded her plane in Kathmandu. It had already been an intense trip
The end of our training series has arrived; one last trip to Tamarancho, one last climb up Iron Springs, one last blast through the Boneyard, and one last race down Endor. Followed, unfortunately, by one more climb back over the last ridge, which is easy to forget to remember until you have to do it.
Phew. Diablo’s always a strenuous workout, but doing it on dirt makes it truly epic. We found a couple nice new trails which meant we could do a loop that started and finished without long road segments. Plus they added three or four bonus climbs! Along with the Summit Trail, which is a serious slog
