http://www.medusarecords.org/hills climbing and riding in New England and beyond Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:37:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I received word from Keith that he had tried out my climbing circuit. Unfortunately, the bridge over 146 on Wilbur road has gone from "under construction" to "completely gone." As a result, Keith had to detour several miles around, to get back to the start of Wilbur Hill. ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=607 For anyone following my benchmarks on the climbing circuit, you'll know that 52:18 is a personal record by a pretty comfortable margine. My most recent attempt, the first with the Garmin, was 54:00 on the nose. That, in turn was about 15 seconds shy of my best ever time. But ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=595 A couple things to catch up on: Tuesday. Only four of us showed up for the Smack Down (me, aaron, curtis s., and syl) so we decided to mix things up a bit. Instead of the usual route, we went north and did my climbing circuit. I was not terribly surprised, ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=593 here are some pictures of Jude's new bike, as painted by Brian at Circle A! Completely adorable, if I do say so myself. And this was also the test run for the colors for my new bike. And I have to say I'm very happy with the combination. Especially combined ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=588 This post is a bit late, but I didn't have any internet access after leaving Acadia. The last morning there, I headed out with a Garmin course to get me to Day Mountain, a hill I found on the map, which uses the dirt carriage roads. Having caught glimpses of ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=586 I'm up in Maine for the week, and yesterday the family and I arrived in Bar Harbor for two days. After getting to the hotel at around 3:30, I immediately headed out for a quick ride from the hotel up to the top of Cadillac. Cadillac is the big mountain ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=581 There aren't so many good options for wheels (to replace the Ritcheys) on my current Circle A, given that it's a campy bike. I could get a campy wheelset, or a Mavic of some sort that comes with a campy option, but the Ksyriums are really as low as I'm ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=576 Sunday morning, I got up early and left Manchester for North Adams, intent on finally getting back to do Greylock. Parke was the only one I was able to convince to come. The last time I did it (the south side) was 12 years ago, in 1998. This time I ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=568 Another day, another Smack Down. Today's installment featured Aaron, Mark G., Syl, Kirk, Brendan H., IndyFab Mark, and Curtis S. Kirk put in a monster pull on Greenville Ave. which signaled to me right from the start that he was a much stronger rider than he had been the last ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=565 I'm not too happy with my performance on Whiteface, which is probably why it's taken me until Thursday to write up a race report from Saturday. I was expecting a time of somewhere around 1:08, but that was based on flawed calculations, so I actually came in at 1:02:45. My ... http://www.medusarecords.org/hills/?p=559