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{ Monthly Archives } March 2006

Four things to not do when you are driving

These are all taken from recent experience.
Do not drive in reverse on a one way street.
The situation:
A driver enters an intersection and begins to turn right as if to travel the correct direction on a one way street. They then shift into reverse and back down the one way street going the wrong direction. Just [...]

Consolation, Great!

If you read my blog, please keep in mind that I am a sports fan. Oh, what I mean is A SPORTS FAN! So, I tend to play fantasy sports and [...]

Car races train, car looses

Today, a car attempted to race the light rail train and lost. Both passengers were injured, hopefully not seriously. Also today, the IRL experienced a tragic loss [...]

How to drive TV ratings…

.. at everyone else’s expense.
Remember, old content can be made new again by not publishing episode numbers, titles, or any discernible information about what you are actually broadcasting. People, or more specifically machines, can then not tell if they have seen something or not. Since they will be unable to tell, they may wander over [...]

Additional Hell Week Photos

Here are Nate’s photos from the Hell Week Trip.
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Final Hell Week Numbers..

At least some of them…

Total Distance:
501
Average Distance:
62.6
Total Ride Time:
34:09
Average Ride Time:
4:15
Max Speed:
40.4 (downhill with a tail wind)
Average Speed:
14.67
Total watch assent: (partial)
17,040 feet
Average watch assent: (partial)
2,130
Riding flats:
0 (Yea!)
Lost Keys:
5 (two were later recovered)
Dogs who chased us:
1
Dogs that really wanted to bite when chasing:
0
Attempts to go 40 mph:
4
Hours spent claiming the cyclometer did not register speed above [...]

Texas Hell Week 500

After completing the ride today, several of us were thinking that we were going to come up about 20 miles short of the 500 mile threshold. There was some discussion of doing a [...]

Vacation on Hell Week, Day 8

Yesterday’s weather forecast included chances of rain for the first time in the trip. Supposedly, it was going to Wednesday night. If it did, I didn’t hear a thing. The morning [...]

Other pictures

Those who are interested can now see all my Hell Week photos at my photo album site. Check it out.
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Vacation on Hell Week, Day 7

The fifth riding day was a planned rest day. We started out by sleeping in about 45 minutes more then usual. The first item on the agenda was attempting to locate a new [...]

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