Iron Rider

Winter In the winter of 2017, I stepped away from long bike rides to get stronger. Following a consistent routine of ever heavier squats...

"Abraham Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs.  When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fu...

            A night in Transit   At 6:00 am on Friday morning I walked on the Gulf Coast beach of Naples, Florida, carrying my sandals i...

We couldn't have timed it better. After riding 150 miles of seemingly endless rolling hills and short steep climbs on the route that tr...

I wanted to tell you what the course is like. Maybe you are thinking of riding the upcoming Shenandoah 1200K and you have learned...

The 2012 Pennsylvania Randonneurs' Blue Mountain 400K provided a course that would test the 30 plus Randonneurs who signed up to ...

Let me start by stating the obvious: 400 kilometers is a long ass distance to pedal a bicycle. It's about the distance from New York Ci...

click to view In the days before the ride, I  kept checking three weather sites to make sure, but each site showed the same forecast...

(click on a picture for full size image) Spring in central Pennsylvania

Exceeding physical limitations comes at a cost. In the late spring, completing a 300k brevet put me in the hospital where specialists had t...