A friend was riding up Albuquerque’s long Tramway Hill Sunday when he was passed by a lone rider on a time trial bike in full Team Astana kit. Astana, current home of last year’s Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, had been training in Albuquerque. We thought they had gone, but Contador was apparently still …
It’s sort of an infrastructure triple junction. Below, you’ve got a big open concrete channel that substitutes for what used to be arroyos carrying water off of what is now a city. Adjacent to it, you’ve got a buried water main, carrying drinking water to the residents of that city. Above it, you have one …
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Seen from the bike today – a woman in Corrales, New Mexico, taking her dogs for a walk.
Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m working on a piece for the newspaper about riding a bike. At the risk of giving too much away, I’ll say simply that it’s about going to places and seeing things. Such as these things, seen today: ice: It’s been dry for a couple of weeks, but the concrete flood …
I woke up Sunday morning for the first time in year without thinking about what work I needed to do that day on the book. The manuscript sits in a stack on the shelf next to me. (They want it printed on paper in addition to being burned onto a CD! How quaint!) I took …
The folks at Spa and Billiard Supply in Albuquerque must be delighted. Work is underway on a new bicycle trail along the north side of Interstate 40 that will give cyclists excellent access to their store. In the past, cyclists who wanted to buy a spa or billiard supplies didn’t have any good options. As …
paper of the day: More melting, this time in British Columbia. “The recent rate of glacier loss in the Coast Mountains (17.0 km?3a?1) is approximately double that observed for the previous two decades.” reading: Super Crunchers – yet more on why the algorithms are smarter than the humans and will eventually take over the world …
bosque-pond Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. The picture’s a tease. It was taken last October, so think of it as a hint of things to come. But the hints were there aplenty this morning on my bike ride along the riverside trail – little sprinklings of single yellow leaves on the cottonwoods. We’re still in summer, …
View Larger Map Indeed, this is way easier than the way I’ve been doing it.
Not much lost in the translation: Le coureur espagnol Iban Mayo a été contrôlé positif à l’EPO sur le Tour de France durant la journée de repos du 24 juillet.