The latest installment of my Phoenix to El Paso solo bike ride.
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Episode 6 – Tombstone AZ to Douglas AZ (Mexican Border)
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Episode 5 – Tucson to Tombstone 88 Mile Cycle RIde
This cycling day was framed by 100 degree weather and an 88-mile ride uphill into the wind
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Episode 4: Phoenix to Tucson – 105 miles – first day in the saddle
Day started with a flight from Toronto to Phoenix, followed by a 105-mile bike ride in 100 deg F tempurature
Episode 3: Cycling Trip Gear
This video summarizes the spare parts, tools and nutrition I’m bringing along on the 500-mile solo ride through the Arizona / Mexico desert and mountains.
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American Airlines sucks big time when it come to bicycles
Air Canada – $55 dollars to take my bike on a plane
SouthWest – $50
American Airlines – $175!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s the last time I use AA.
Douglas Arizona makes the news
Part of my Phoenix to El Paso solo cycle ride includes Douglas, Arizona
Episode 2 – Cycling Trip Preparation – Part 1 of 2
This video compares the differences in my bike trip preparation from 1998, when I first attempted pedaling from Arizona to Texas, and my current approach to getting ready to pedal 500 miles in five days:
Hyponatremia – managing your sodium levels
On one of my long day segments on a past cycling trip (san diego to tucson by way of yuma) I experienced a loss of energy due to poor hydration management. Here’s an article by the Globe and Mail that speaks to managing your sodium levels and water intake while doing endurance sports:
Episode 1 -Tucson to El Paso Redux – Cycling Routes Then and Now
This video describes the changes in the Arizona-New Mexico-Texas bike route, from the first trip thirteen years ago, to the planned trip this October, cutting the time to pedal the trip from eight days down to four days.
Welcome to my new cycling blog
Over the last decade I have undertaken a series of trips that resulted in my cycling across the United States of America, taking me from San Diego CA to Tucson AZ, Tucson to El Paso TX, El Paso to San Antonio TX, San Antonio to New Orleans LA, and finally New Orleans to Jacksonville FLA:
One trip segment that I wasn’t too enamored with was my first ride between Tucson and El Paso – basically, I was unprepared: wrong bike, wrong level of fitness, wrong attitude.
It took me eight days to cover the 400 miles, and during that time I bummed rides twice (once in Arizona after climbing a series of mountains – I was burnt out and I helped a change a tire on a tracker trailer that was bringing tomatoes from Mexico to parts north) and a second time to avoid a dust storm that ripped through the southern part of New Mexico.
This October 2011, thirteen years later, I am going back to redo the original trip. What took me eight days the first time around, I will now do in four.
Subsequent posts will talk about my preparation leading up to the trip, and this time around, videos!
cheers, b
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