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A guest post from Dario about the D2R2, because I wasn't there to see how it was: The ride couldn't have begun better. Sandy Whi...

D2R2 is coming up again. Should I ride it? I can't decide. I haven't been paying to ride things so far this year. I haven'...

That stands for Post-Traumatic Detour Disorder, but I kid. The route of this year's De Tour de Connecticut was the same pleasant ro...

That was my terrible attempt at an April Fool's joke. Even to the eight people who would get that joke, it's not even funny. ...

Today was the De Tour de Connecticut  ( this is where it went ) and a higher power decided to give it the greatest weather ever. Unlike...

Cool guy with a cool jersey. The D2R2 is getting super popular. Almost 1,000 people signed up and despite Hurricane Irene, it appeared t...

There must be some symbolism.

I've been on some nice rides lately, but I seem to have developed some bloggers' block, because I don't know what to say other t...

My gross wound from this weekend is getting better, but walking to work is actually pretty nice. Time to collect my thoughts, look at flower...

While we didn't get a Nor'easter of snow in Hartford, it did rain and was kinda gross. No one else wanted to ride with me on Friday ...

As you may have heard, the D2R2 now has a more formidable little brother, the Green Mountain Double . It's 205 miles long has 25,000 fee...

Another year that revolves around the D2R2. Sandy added a middle distance 72 mile version, but I signed up for the 112 again. I can't re...

Early yesterday day morning, I picked up Dario, with whom I was wearing a matching jersey, and set for the great bicycle summit at D2R2 . To...

Now that primary season is over, we can focus our undivided attention on the D2R2. Last year's debacle weighs heavily on me. I wonder if...

D2R2 is now less than a month away. I'm scrambling to figure out what bike to ride. I had a long haul trucker, the ideal bike, but I don...

Last year, I had big plans for the D2R2 . Sadly, my big plans were met with failure . I was really hoping to be successful, because then I&#...

I'm not going to attempt to take credit for the term "expedition speed", but I'm going to do all that I can to propagate i...

So, I went on and on about the D2R2 for a long time and on Saturday I got up at 4:30 to drive up with my old Stumpjumper to Deerfield and pa...