Joan Deitchman – Saturday Night RAAM

Here’s a short video of Joan Deitchman climbing Cuchara Pass last night. There sure is a lot of energy in that pedal stroke! Especially for someone who’s ridden more than 1075 miles in 4 days. Janet Christiansen was a few minutes behind Joan. Unfortunately, the video of her was out-of-focus. Both women passed through TS20, …

It’s RAAM time

I hope no one was holding their breath waiting for a blog post from me. If so, I guess we won’t need to worry about them anymore. : ) RAAM is coming through for the next few days. Here are a few photos of T204 Beau & Babe and a short video of Gerhard Gulewicz …

Valles Caldera 2011

A beautiful day for a ride in the Jemez Mountains. 125 miles, 11,000 ft of climbing. The ride starts at Overlook Park in White Rock, NM, goes thru Bandelier National Monument, by Fenton Lake and turns around at Jemez Springs.

Antlers 200k

If I didn’t hate rain so much this ride would probably have jumped right to “my favorite rides” list. I chose a warm (60′s-70′s F), muggy, November, Sunday, to ride “Search for BigFoot” 200k Permanent. Three to four hours were spent on wet roads, accompanied by threatening skies the entire route, which dampened my mood …