Culture & Opinion
Wild Horses is a look at the first year of the Silk Road Mountain Race, an absolutely brutal (26,000m of climbing), long distance (1670km), self-supported bikepacking race with very little tarmac that follows the trading route. The clock never stops and there are no prizes. What an incredible adventure.
Tech & Data
This is a great video on race tactics. Nate Pearson of TrainerRoad clearly has a big motor, but power only gives you the opportunity to win, tactics and some luck seal the deal. I hope to see many more videos from TrainerRoad like this, it’s a great format for
Culture & Opinion
This looks like an awesome event and without a doubt, the Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder has the best event website I’ve ever seen. Press release: The Oregon Trail was a 2,000 mile adventure, the likes of which are hard to comprehend in modern times. Adventurers packed their worldly
Culture & Opinion
Here’s an awesome 20-minute video on one of the most epic bicycle race on the planet: BikingMAN Oman. 22 different nationalities raced 1,000 km (620 miles) self-supported through Oman, crossing deserts, climbing the Al Hajar mountains to reach Muscat, the capital city of the Sultanate of Oman. Inspiring
The Engine
Fabio Aru is looking to hit reset heading into the 2019 season after his “darkest moments” yet during 2018. Aru abandoned the Giro d’Italia, renounced his sponsors during a crash at the Vuelta a España, and sat out of Italy’s World Championships team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Engine
Wired takes a look at the Hour Record and why it’s almost impossible to ride a bike 60km in an hour. Of all the ways people can torture themselves on a bike, this has to be the worst. The head game alone would do me in. The hour record
The Engine
The start of a new year means new resolutions. However, without a well laid out plan, most won’t make it further than a month or two. Having a goal (or a few) for the year is a good start, but without a plan to get there you’re just
Road
I’ve been coming up short on my promise to deliver ride reports from 2018, it’s a new year and time to get back in the groove. Last time I covered my bucket list ride up the Sandia Crest outside of Albuquerque, now I have another report from New
Culture & Opinion
In game theory and economic theory, if the total gains of the participants are added up and the total losses are subtracted, they will sum to zero. In contrast, non-zero-sum describes a situation in which the interacting parties’ aggregate gains and losses can be less than or more than zero.
Culture & Opinion
El Capitan is a 3,200-foot-tall wall of sheer granite in Yosemite National Park. The first expedition to climb El Capitan did so in 47 days, the first solo attempt took 10. Professional climber Alex Honnold climbed the Freerider route in June of 2017 in 3 hours 56 minutes, solo,
Culture & Opinion
Great article by Jennifer Howard, a professional writer and editor, in the Washington Post last week on how the internet and modern devices have ruined reading. She found herself unable to re-read a Hermann Hesse novel she loved because the “grafted, spasmodic, online style” of modern reading has forced itself
Culture & Opinion
In 2017, French climber Liv Sansov set out with a very ambitious plan: to climb all 82 peaks over 4,000 meters in the European Alps. For the better part of a year, Sansov climbed, skied, mountaineered and even base jumped as she worked to complete the challenge. Along the