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Archive for January, 2008

Texas Hell Week Brevets: New Routes for 2008

January 7, 2008

We’re expanding our Texas Hell Week Brevets for 2008 by offering two sets of 200K and 300K rides. Below are details:

Monday 17th March. 200K to Hunt; 300K to Utopia via Hunt. The 300 builds off the 200.

Friday 21 March. 200K to Junction; 300K to Menard, via Junction. The 300 builds off the 200.

The first duo [...]

Texas Hell Week 2008 Wearables

January 7, 2008

Click the links below to see our t-shirt/sweatshirt design, as well as the accompanying jersey. We’ll also have cool socks from Sock Guy available.
Texas Hell Week 2008 T-Shirt Design
Texas Hell Week 2008 Jersey Design

Texas Hell Week XVIII: New Twists and Turns

January 7, 2008

It is only a couple of months until Texas Hell Week XVIII returns to Fredericksburg, and cyclists take to the rolling pavement of Texas Hill Country. We’ve got some nice changes in store for this year, including:

Several new routes, including roads we’ve never used before south of Comfort, as well as near Harper.
New takes on [...]

Gator XII 2008-2009

January 7, 2008

With Gator XI now history, it’s time to start thinking about the Next Adventure. And that will be, as always, on 28 December through 04 January. We use the same calendar dates each year; this time around, it will be a Sunday-through-Sunday tour.
I am going to be doing some minor tweaking of the Day 5 [...]

Gatorspective

January 6, 2008

Another Gator Country Hell Week has come and gone. This was the 11th fully-supported version of this tour, with the first (the “beta”) being run in January 1997 as a self-supported tour by 4 vets of various other Hell Weeks. And as with all the previous tours, this was a great one.
Call me a hopeless [...]

Day 8 Gator Hell Week

January 4, 2008

All good things must come to an end.
And so today we wrapped up Gator Country Hell Week #11 in Fort Myers, the same place we started the journey one week ago. In the mean time, we rode 830 miles across southern and central Florida. We felt the scorching heat of summer with several days pushing [...]

Day 7 Gator Hell Week

January 3, 2008

“I think I have an icicle hanging from my nose,” I yelled as I passed by Peter and Ed this morning somewhere after Bowling Green.
“Is that the Quote For the Day?” Ed asked.
“Yeah, sounds good to me,” I tossed back. The plumbing was working great this morning, thanks to the chill in the air. The [...]

Day 6 Gator Hell Week

January 2, 2008

“What would happen if a Canadian got frostbite in Florida?”
That was the question posed this morning by one of our two Canadian riders Peter and Ed, both brothers from Ontario. And while it was partly offered in jest, it was indeed a relevant question. A reinforcing cold front had blown through the evening prior, greeting [...]

Day 5 Gator Hell Week

January 1, 2008

You would hardly even know a new year had started if you had polled those of us riding around Florida this week. It was another day on the bike, preceded by another early evening. When you’re riding 100 miles a day, it begins to add up quickly. No one even cared about staying up to [...]