As cyclists strapped on their cleats to tackle Stage 1 of the Tour de Georgia on Monday, a former winner of that race was lacing up his running shoes to participate in the 2008 Boston Marathon.
Lance Armstrong, running in his third marathon, finished the fabled race in an unofficial time of 2:50:58. The 7-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor was running to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya won the race …
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Cuban cyclist Ivan Dominguez won Stage 1 of the Tour de Georgia in a bunch sprint on Monday.
While Rock Racing, High Road and Gerolsteiner battled for position at the front of the peloton, the “Cuban Missile” slipped past their sprinters and rocketed across the finish line.
Jelly Belly's Nicholas Sanderson and Gerolsteiner's Robert Forster finished second and third on the 70-mile stage from Tybee Island to Savannah…
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It appears that the scheduled 10:30 a.m. (ET) start time for Stage 1 of the 2008 Tour de Georgia is slightly exaggerated. Based on Adobe Tour Tracker, the race started at 10:50 a.m.
The Adobe Tour Tracker fired up at 10:39 with its first live post from VeloNews. Live video streaming on the media player at WCSN.com (follow the “watch now” link on the WCSN Tour de Georgia broadcast schedule page) is available. CyclingNews also offering live play-by-play ….
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Mark Reynolds died during a downhill run at the Sea Otter Classic in 2008.
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Updated April 22, 2008
Tragedy struck the Sea Otter Classic when an experienced mountain biker and component designer crashed and died during a downhill run on Saturday.
The man was identified by authorities as Mark Reynolds, 48, of San Jose. He was owner and product developer for Wicked Racin, a company that makes bike components for downhill, black diamond and free ride specialists.
According to reports, Reynolds failed to negotiate a narrow wooden bridge and struck a dirt embankment shortly after noon on Saturday. It was reported that he suffered head and neck injuries and was airlifted to Natividad Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
A medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death this week. …
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Bicycling through history
At least once a month, I test my conditioning by pedaling up to the top of Cougar Mountain. It's a 5-mile ride from my home, and my goal one day is to reach it in 25 minutes.
About three-quarters of the way up, across the entrance to the Cougar Mountain Regional Park, I pass an open field where there's an old, mossy concrete wall that has a tree growing out of it.
I was surprised to learn a few months ago that this is the ruins of a hotel built about 100 years ago in an area once heavily populated by workers in the coal mine industry…
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The wall that is all that remains of the old Coal Creek Hotel in Newcastle, Washington.
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The Coal Creek Hotel in the old Newscastle, Washington, area as it looked about 1915. All that remains now is a stubby concrete wall.
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Automatically parks & retrieves bikes
Here's a video report from Japan about an automated bicycle parking garage in Tokyo that can hold 9,400 bicycles.
The facility is located at the Kasai metro station and aims to solve the problem of finding a location to park a lot of bicycles in a small area.
The video isn't translated, but it appears that after you swipe a card, your bicycle is automatically whisked away and stored. When you return, swipe your card again, and the robot retrieves your bike and delivers it in 22 seconds …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/04/20/tokyos-amazing-bicycle-parking-garage/
There are 54 mountain peaks surpassing 14,000 feet elevation in Colorado, and Andy Henrichs plans to bike to each and every one of them this summer then trudge to the summit.
The athletic trainer for Roaring Fork High School in Carbondale is setting out on the quest to raise money for World Bicycle Relief's Project Zambia. He hopes to raise enough money to supply two bikes to the project each peak he climbs.
At Henrichs' website, where he's accepting donations for World Bicycle Relief, Henrichs estimates the journey will involve bicycling some 1,400 miles on his Xtracycle-equipped mountain bike and hiking over 350 miles. He expects the trek to take 52 days; that's like 1 summit a day …
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