Tag: travel
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Cartagena Cycling – Not for the Feint of Heart
Colombia Cycling Colombia is a cycling country. The mountains in the center of the country around Bogota and Medellin offer some of the best riding in the entire world and produce some of the premier cyclists in the pro peloton. Fresh off of a Colombia cycling adventure in December (that I discuss here.) I was…
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Cycling Sinaloa – Research Your Routes
A critical lesson recently taught to me by the School of Hard Knocks on a recent trip to Sinaloa, Mexico. Poor route research and planning combined is a lackadaisical complacency built up over years of riding safe cycling-friendly areas of the globe landed me in a frightening situation and taught me this all to important…
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The Longest Climb in The World, Alto de Letras
alright, alright… technically the third longest climb in the world behind an extended Mauna Kea route (#1) and Wuling Pass (#2), but those nitty gritty details failed to make it to the sign at the top of Letras proudly proclaiming it as having the coveted “est” qualifier. Letras does still get the consolation prize for…
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Always Test Pack Your Bike
Every triathlete that has traveled to a race knows the stress of packing up all of your fancy gear and equipment to prepare it to fly. Securing, padding, weighing, checking your packing list, checking it again…. And of course checking it 3 more times. Race day is around the corner and you’re (hopefully) about to…
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