2013 Mountains of Misery Double Metric

MOUNTAINS OF MISERY 2013 The Mountains of Misery are named accurately, filled with misery stacked upon climb after climb.  I had quite a bit of trepidation leading into this event due to the memories from two years ago.  I rode the century route in 2011 and that was exceedingly difficult.  So what do I sign up for this year?  Something even harder, the double-metric ride! 126.2 miles with an elevation climb of ~11,390 feet across what felt like 5 mountain ranges.  That's almost half-way up Mount Everest or ~8 times taller than the Empire State Building.  Spider-man can't fight the Hulk because they aren't...

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2013 Casa River Century

The Casa River Century was a little bit shorter this year than the ride last year.  It's been a really tough physical time during this past week.  The bulk of the issue revolves around a 3-on-3 basketball tournament at work last Wednesday. I haven't played ball in over 5 years by design.  There are really good reasons for that decision, all of which came back to me during the tournament. I guess I thought the tourney was going to be a lightly contested stand-around and shoot jumpers kind of outing .. Wrong!  Double-elimination games to 15 points or 15 minutes against a bunch of guys that are younger, stronger and play...

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