Monthly Archives: March 2006

A suburban adventure walk along the river

2006-03-30 – 23:59

A while back I decided to focus my blog a bit more after reading some general advice on topicality, and also a comment from a friend about the esoteric topics I’d been covering. A glance at the variety of Categories confirms these ideas, so ever since then I’ve been writing about biking and things closely [...]

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GPS as Bicycle Computer

2006-03-18 – 14:32

This morning I went on my first ride with the Garmin Edge 305. It collects cadence, speed, heart rate, and position, and saves them for upload and analysis on the computer after you’re done exercising. So far I’m pleased with it. I’ve been waffling for years on getting GPS, and also on getting a bicycle [...]

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GPS Killer App

2006-03-13 – 20:31

I love maps, I work with GIS-like applications nearly every day, and I’ve always been fascinated by GPS, but never quite enough to spend the money to buy one. This weekend I got an email from one of the Sunday riders, and it’s launched these semi-related interests from passive to full-on geek/gadget/cycling gear fetish [...]

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Did I say “moderate effort?”

2006-03-12 – 13:11

Well my very logical explanation of keeping my efforts moderate early in the season didn’t survive my first real group ride of the year. Last year it was sometimes a frustrating exercise to get a group together for a ride, so I started a Columbia County Rides Mailing Listccrides. So far this year it’s batting [...]

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Does the Tour of California have a suggestion box?

2006-03-12 – 12:35

I really did enjoy the Tour of California, especially the daily television coverage, something the Tour de Georgia could stand to add. I don’t want to sound too much like I’m complaining about having another high-quality stage race on this side of the pond, but the race wasn’t hard enough for the outcome to be [...]

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