Trail Ramblings: One More Time
This time next week I’ll be back to teaching English and riding my bike around Zhoukou for another ten months. That was not originally the plan, but there was no …
Rambling Different Trails: Do No Harm
Sometimes we just need to protect people from themselves. Like when someone you’ve just met, say a 20 year old young man who plays basketball and runs, insists that accompanying …
Rambling Different Trails: Widening The Ring.
I’ve been riding the spicy soup loop forward and backward this past week so I feel like I’m getting to know the area to the west better. I didn’t even …
Rambling Different Roads: Where Was I, And How Did I Get Here?
There was no reverse spicy soup ride for me this week. Instead I managed to get quite lost above Huaiyang when I thought I was below it, so I got …
Rambling Different Trails: It Was A Good Week, It Was A Bad Week.
First, the good part. Ding invited me to ride out to Xiaoyaozhen for spicy soup, a 100 km loop in a direction I hadn’t yet explored. His texts are understandable …
Rambling Different Trails: My Favorite Rides around Zhoukou.
It’s hard to believe it but I’m now familiar with many or most of the major routes in and around Zhoukou. I remember when I first arrived how confusing it …
Trail Ramblings: Rambling On Different Trails.
It sounds like the State games Cycling event and Rapha 100 this past weekend were a success. Owing to other events, I was in Iowa and Minnesota and looking for …
Trail Ramblings: When Things Get Sketchy The Sketchy Get Going
Well it wasn’t the ride I set out to do, but it was an interesting ride to end up having done. I don’t have problems navigating Lancaster or Cass counties. …
Trail Ramblings: The Challenge Will Be Here Soon, How Will You Get Those Miles?
Are you strictly a commuter or do you mainly ride recreationally? (I consider commuting a kind of recreation, but maybe others would not.) Whatever your motivation, I hope you’ll sign …
Trail Ramblings: Do You Have What You Need?
As the number of people hitting the trails rises with the temperature, take a moment to check to see that your seat or frame bag is re-stocked with some essentials. …