On Sunday, I completed a 342 mile, 7-day bike ride across Italy.  I had two simple goals: to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund and to survive.  Thanks to the help of many caring donors, I raised $6,400 for cancer research and care this year (so far).  Since you’re reading [...]

Last week, my daughter’s 31 year old high school math teacher, Carolyn Girod, was struck and killed by a car while cycling in Washington.  At the time, Girod was riding with her boyfriend on what is reported to be a fairly rural and straight stretch of road.  According to the Washington State Patrol, the driver [...]

The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) is a charitable, 2-day bike ride across the state of Massachusetts that raises money for cancer research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund.  The ride was the first fundraising bike-a-thon in the country, starting in 1980.  Since then, over 50,000 riders and 30,000 support volunteers have [...]

When I was a little kid, there was a company that produced sneakers called PF Flyers.  They advertised that they made you run faster and jump higher.  They did.  I proved it every time I got a new pair.  It’s a good thing Michael Jordan wasn’t born yet, because I would have kicked his [...]

Answering questions posed by the press today, Johan Bruyneel, the team manager of the Astana cycling team of which Lance Armstrong is a member, commented on the impact of Armstrong’s fractured clavicle that happened as a result of a cycling crash this week.

“Whether Armstrong can recover in time to start July’s Tour is not a [...]

In November, I hit the 3,000 mile mark of miles cycled during 2008.  At that time, I thought I would hit my [revised] goal of 3,500 miles for the year without any problem.  As it turns out, I didn’t make it.  As of 12/31/2008 – a full day I spent sitting on my ass on [...]

Early in the year, I had set a soft goal for myself of cycling about 4,000 miles in 2008.  It was a soft goal because I had never kept complete records on previous years’ rides and didn’t know where 4,000 miles fit into what I had done earlier.  Would it be too much or too [...]

Here in the Boston area, cycling is shockingly popular. You’d think that in a place that seems to have only thirty or forty sunny days a year such activities wouldn’t be such a big deal.

Perhaps because there are so many cyclists on the road, I find that car drivers are, generally, attentive and polite [...]