I shouldn't gloat, but … While most of my neighbors were surviving another gloomy, wet, cold, overcast weekend down around Seattle, I was bicycling under sunny skies in the San Juan Islands.
Here I am on Saturday at the Lime Kiln State Park lighthouse on San Juan Island. People had gathered there to try to catch a glimpse a recently returned pod of orcas with a young calf. We could see the whale-watcher boats, but the orcas never got close to shore while I was there.
What brought me up there was a bike-a-thon fund-raiser for the Stanley Stamm Children's Hospital summer camp. The camp has been held for the past 41 years for children with disabilities who can't attend most other camps; this was the 21st year for the bike-a-thon. It was the first year that Dr. Stamm, who'd broken his arm, couldn't ride his bike in it. …
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Best place for orca watching from land in the Puget Sound. That's me.
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Crews are stocking up on caffeine and butt blister creme in southern California this weekend as most solo cyclists in the 27th annual Race Across America prepare to set off from the Oceanside pier on Sunday.
Some 250 cyclists are participating in this year's cross-country ultra bicycling event in the solo and team categories. The route will take the cyclists some 3,000 miles to the new finish in Annapolis, Maryland.
Unbelieveably, the winner of the solo ride usually rolls across the finish line about 8 or 9 days after the start. For three of the past four years, that person has been Jure Robic, a Slovenian cyclist. …
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Excellent bakery, deli and sit-down dining in historic Black Diamond. This is a former coal boom town close by the western slope of the Cascades in Washington state.
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It sounds like the hit-and-run case of a bicyclist killed in Ohio's Tour of the Scioto River Valley last month will go to a county grand jury.
Pike County prosecutor Robert Junk told the Columbus Dispatch that he plans to ask the grand jury to indict a motorist on felony charges related to the death, although he hasn't decided what charges to seek.
Junk says he's awaiting crash-reconstruction details from the scene and the final autopsy report. Junk already has seen the initial report of the State Police investigation into the death of William Crowley, the 57-year-old physician from Michigan who was struck from behind during the second morning of the ride …
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Cycling's master tactician Johan Bruyneel released a book –“We Might as Well Win” — and plans to visit Seattle and Portland on his 11-city tour to peddle the tome.
Four of his book signings, including the two in the Pacific Northwest, occur during the Tour de France, July 5 – 27. That won't be a problem for the Belgian directeur sportif for the Astana squad, as the organizers of the Tour have publically stated they won't invite his team.
Of course, the Giro d'Italia officials said also said they wouldn't invite Astana up until a week before that race, when they changed their minds. Astana's Alberto Contador won the Giro last Sunday …
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Director sportif of US Postal Service, Discovery Channel and Astana. Managed eight Tours de France victories. Photo by ajle at flickr.com
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Seventy-six college students are spending their summer vacations in the bike saddle as they're rolling out of Seattle and San Francisco in the next couple of weeks for three cross-country charity bicycle tours.
All members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, the cyclists (and 20 college crewmembers) are riding the Journey of Hope bicycle tours in support of children and adults with disabilities.
Bike tours are always educational. You can't help but learn about different people and places while you slowly pedal down the road. But this one is more so, as these college students are scheduled to meet with and learn about children and adults with physical and mental disabilities, as well as perform service projects along the way. …
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Journey of Hope cyclists in Washington DC in 2005. From Kamanda in Chief at flickr.com.
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