Tag Archives: climbing

Pawling

Pawling Mountain Road Race © 2011 Harry Zernike. All rights reserved.

#3, #236, and #857. Those are my excuses- the main ones- for dropping out after two laps at the Pawling Mountain Road Race today. (You can look them up in your copy of “The Cyclist’s Book of Excuses”.) I’m OK … Continue reading

Peekamoose

Peekamoose © 2011 Harry Zernike. All rights reserved.

  Summer is stretched out before us. Weekends are mostly packed full of racing, but we like to remember that we started riding bikes for fun; to get out and look around. We are celebrating the 4th of July this … Continue reading

Whistling Down the Lane

Green Mountains, VT © 2011 Harry Zernike. All rights reserved.

Emails were flying about all the races coming up in New York City on the weekend.  But we ignored them.  Every couple of years the stars align, and all the conditions are right for an attempt at Six Gaps, the … Continue reading

In The Devil’s Kitchen

In The Devil's Kitchen © 2010 Harry Zernike. All rights reserved.

Tour of the Catskills Stage Two, the Mountaintop Classic, “Featuring the Assault on Devil’s Kitchen”