30 June to 16 July 2014 Colorado I’m cycling up a steep, switchbacking trail in the mountains around Frisco, Colorado, wondering if it’s okay for my heart to be beating this fast and my lungs to be heaving this heavily here at 10,000 feet when it occurs to me that not only am I several …
11 July 2012 Walden CO to Saratoga WY 69 miles (TransAm 2,608) Team TransAm has crossed into their seventh state this trip: Wyoming. I know three things about Wyoming: (1) the Tetons are in Wyoming; (2) most of Yellowstone National Park is in Wyoming; and (3) the alien mothership in Close Encounters of the Third …
10 July 2012 Hot Sulphur Springs to Walden CO 62 miles (TransAm 2,539) Wagon Haiku peaks pines moose blue skies sweep across the great divide climb coast breathe believe
09 July 2012 Frisco to Hot Sulphur Springs CO 66 miles (TransAm 2,477) It’s Monday and even people on long 3-month holidays riding their bicycles across America are not immune from the Monday melancholy. Gina’s started the moment she woke up, not feeling energized or in the mood to bike. This is an obvious problem …
08 July 2012 Frisco CO 0 miles (TransAm 2,411) Gina is in street clothes today, bumming around Frisco, catching up and hanging out with Colorado friends and family. No miles to be made on the TransAm route, no alarm clocks going off at 5:30 am. Instead, a day to enjoy the Rockies and the King …
07 July 2012 Hartsel to Frisco CO 54 miles (TransAm 2,411) Hoosier Pass. Sounds like it should be somewhere in Indiana rather than Colorado. But there it is – Hoosier Pass – and Team TransAm has successfully climbed up it and then coasted right back down. I don’t know what the big deal is – …
06 July 2012 Royal Gorge to Hartsel CO 54 miles (TransAm 2,357) Rumor has it Gina has started doping. It seems there is no other plausible explanation for her sudden 24-mile-long sprint up into the Rockies, aiming for that King of the Mountains jersey, passing everyone today except Ubald (serious yellow jersey candidate) and Simon, …
05 July 2011 Royal Gorge CO 0 miles (TransAm 2,303) The other night I saw this advertisement for the first time and I thought, Yep, that’s me, cast as the girl on the computer and yep, there’s Gina and her fellow TransAmmers, playing the role of my parents: The only real difference is that today, …
04 July 2012 Pueblo to Royal Gorge CO 60 miles (TransAm 2,303) “I’ve never been a fan of Canon City – it’s home to several correctional facilities.” And so begins another day in the life of Gina and her bicycle as they cross this great nation. It’s hot, there’s lots of traffic, and it’s loud. …
03 July 2012 Ordway to Pueblo 52 miles (TransAm 2,243) I thought Obama was on a bus rolling through Ohio and yet there he is, in the Mexican restaurant outside of Pueblo, Colorado, stumping with Gina and her brother Mark. This is not a political blog so all I have to say is that he’s …