Keeping in mind that I’m the type of guy who’s done both the bike tour and the marathon in the past (2003, 2005 and 2007), it shouldn’t surprise you — or at least not for very long — what’s been percolating in my head since my personal-best breaking 61-minute cannonball run of the bike tour’s …
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I’m pretty sure I decided to make this a tradition from its inaugural run back in 1995. Fourteen bike tours done on five different bikes I’m still loving the annual event — with today’s being the best ever. I got a quick start at the begining and ran across the 21.5-mile course in a personal …
It’s 52 degrees and calm outside right now at 3:50 a.m. It seems not as socked in as yesterday, but it’s early yet — literally. I’m up this morning this time not because of an tresspassing critters, but instead to get my ass on down to the 14th running of the bicycles known as the …
A lifetime streak has come to an end with receipt today of my first citation as a cyclist. Riding in to work this morning I rolled southbound through a Culver City T-intersection stop sign on Duquesne above Jefferson and on the northbound side — doh! — there just happened to be a CCPD patrol car …
(click to quadruplify) Just one from the archives, snapped late December.
It’s another successful IAAL•MAF ride in the books, this one much different from last year’s there-and-back to the Watts Towers of Simon Rodia. This time I went crazy with the research and we made stops at the childhood home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ralph Bunche (1121 E. 54th Street); the location of the 1969 …
(click to quadruplify) This morning my friend and fellow IAAL•MAF’er Manny and I scouted out next Saturday’s Watts Happening II Ride down to the 54th Street location of the horrific SLA/LAPD shootout of May 1974 and back where we arrived just in time for Mama’s Tamales to be open for a bite. Getting back home …