Category: General
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Day 3: Holding the Line
Good morning! This is the beginning of day four. We are staying at a farm outside of Corvallis. A friend of mine from high school actually has a bee farm, so we stayed here last night. Yesterday was a really interesting day. I call it my white line day. So when I started riding seriously…
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Day 2: Accepting Help from Road Angels
So I thought I would do today’s recording from our campground, so you can see our pretty spot. My buddies are all somewhere over there having dinner. Today was a pretty easy ride, I think something like 55 miles. It was raining when we left, but only rained for about an hour and the rest…
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Day 1: Staying in The Discomfort
Day one we rode from Astoria to Tillamook, about 72 miles. Probably 90% of the day was raining and spanned from being just drizzly all the way to just full on downpour. It was definitely the wettest I’ve ever ridden through. Really challenging ride. But it was stunningly beautiful and all of us rode really…
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Twas the Night Before
The night before the long ride And all through my system A stream of adrenaline is coursing My heart like a piston I’ve repacked my bags To distract from the fear A rain soaked first day Draws ever more near The next days will challenge Along the coast we will ride Spectacular views Of rock,…
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Pre-ride Lessons: Letting Go
You can watch the video or read my thoughts below: Good morning! We are a little less than two weeks out from the trip and I thought I would take my first attempt at recording some of my thoughts about what’s happening. It was an interesting weekend – I packed the bags on the bike,…
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I’m Kevin.
John and I have been friends since our high school swim coach (also happens to be his brother in law), Kent, introduced us at the beginning of high school. I’m not quite sure how we got interested in cycling, but we both saved our money in high school to buy really nice touring bikes and…
The Long Ride 