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Christopher and Harrison get a century under their belts! Continuing the Finger Lakes touring series for the summer, Christopher and Harrison spent an extended weekend riding through the rolling hills surrounding Seneca and Cayuga Lake. Sunday (8/20) was spent on a light 36-mile tour of the west side of Seneca Lake. Extra entertainment was added […]
Success! Though you wouldn’t ever want do this ride in the opposite direction. Not only were Mike and Adam helped along by a consistent tailwind, but who could possibly leave beautiful Montauk and look forward to barreling into Queens? (Ok, Babylon is not quite Queens, but the road traffic compares!)
A quick recap: Mike got into […]
This weekend, Mike hopes to join the other four FTF riders in the Century Club — as in, someone who has biked more than 100 miles in a day. Saturday, after an early-morning train ride from Manhattan to Babylon, NY, Mike will follow the Montauk highway 55 miles out to Quogue, on Long Island […]
Anatomy of a Ride: Mike’s Training in NYC
1 Comment Published by mike.iacovella August 7th, 2006 in TrainingSome metropolises are friendly to those in training. New York City certainly isn’t in the top ten. Here’s Mike’s take on his training ride yesterday through Putnam County, 50 miles north of New York City…
Getting there: I live in Hoboken, NJ, which is a famously “mile-square” city on the Hudson River, directly across from the […]
Adam & Harrison Go 170, Live To Talk About It…
0 Comments Published by mike.iacovella July 30th, 2006 in TrainingAdam and Harrison achieved their biggest training feat to date this weekend by completing a 170-mile round trip ride from Boston to Falmouth!
Beginning in Cambridge, they rode 7 miles to downtown Boston where they picked up the Fast Ferry to Provincetown. While the mist from the salt water corroded the bikes on the back of […]
Adam, Mike, Bill and Harrison spent close to four hours on Saturday pedaling through pastoral north-eastern Connecticut, dodging raindrops and downing wet almond Snickers and PowerBars along the way. Click on the ‘photo links’ in the right column for some fun pics.
The ride, as Harrison originally described it, was to start in the state park […]
Chris, Harrison, and Adam on Golden Pond / Mike on Bear Mtn.
0 Comments Published by mike.iacovella July 16th, 2006 in TrainingDespite scorching temperatures and a Subaru that refused to take itself out of park, Harrison and Adam successfully rode 62 miles of the rolling hills that border Squam Lake in New Hampshire. Chris, after tending to the broken vehicle met up with Adam and Harrison at mile 40. At mile 50, the three riders encountered […]














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