Travelblogging across the USA on bicycles.

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Day 1 Miles: 93 Santa Monica - Wrightwood
Woke up a bit late for our Pacific Ocean tire-dip missing our desired departure time of 5am by an hour and a half. While filming around the pier a bum yells at me "Don phillm mee mannn" and jumps off his bike and hits my new video camera out of my hand and sends it flying into the street. Luckily it didn't break. A sign?

Timmy checked the water temp for us and we set off around 7am in pursuit of the Atlantic Ocean. Stephen's pedal broke right away so we stopped for breakfast at Denny's, I called Nadine, and then we shaved our heads.
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thanks to Doc Searls

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I lied. Here is another Lance article.

Armstrong among best ever
Four-time Tour champion exemplifies endurance, strength, determination

What Armstrong does is far more difficult than sprinting. This isn’t ‘go as fast as you can for a short distance,’ or even ‘ride a bike around a banked track.’ It involves time trials — Saturday’s was more than 30 miles long; fierce mountain climbs that demand leg strength and stamina that the vast majority of the planet’s six billion people can’t even imagine; long, long rides through rolling country; the ability to control a bike riding on impossibly skinny tires down mountain switchbacks at speeds that would scare the average motorist; teamwork; strategy; decision-making.

And you do it for three solid weeks with only two days off to rest.

If he’s not an athlete and bike racing isn’t a sport, then that business between the Israelis and the Palestinians is just a slight difference of opinion.
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I should be riding my own bicycle tomorrow. I've been off it for over four years now and my waist shows it. Put new tires and tubes on tonight. I have lost the touch. I pinched the front tube twice and the rear tube once. They are holding air now and I will see if I remember how to ride. I still need to find my frame pump.