Category: Florida Coast 2013

Let the conditioning (for Florida) begin!   Relative to my riding thusfar in 2013, today’s Fountain Hills loop ride was significant, which isn’t saying much.   I took off early in the morning down King Kong and then eastward on Bush Highway, then by the somewhat steeper grades around Saguaro Lake.  This was a repeat of a frequent conditioning ride taken in prep for RA2011. I’d never tried this ride in August.  The monsoon humidity in the air felt heavy when stopped and wonderful when moving.  Hills around the lake were a bit challenging for me but nothing too bad.  I

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Jack and I finally have a fall 2013 tour taking shape!  The plan is to meet at the northermost point of the Atlantic coast of Florida, then ride south along the ocean all the way to Key West.  We’ll plan to generally follow the Adventure Cycling Association’s Atlantic Coast Route, but of course deviate from it whenever we want. As much as we’d like to camp every night along the way, the Florida Atlantic coast doesn’t appear to offer very much in that category, except perhaps the option of setting up a tent alongside parked RVs.   A fraction of

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