Were you a new participant in the bike boom of 2020? Has the bug bitten? Wondering what's next? Maybe it's a big charity event or a gravel race, or maybe you're just wondering how far you can go ... Audax K.C. can help! Leave the route planning to us and come push yourself farther this Spring. Visit audaxkc.com for more, and come see what "farther" is all about! ... Audaxkc.com Facebook.com/kcbrevets #audaxkc #rideyourbike #farther #longdistancecycling #rusa #randonneur #ultracycling #milepost1445 
I haven't ridden to the office in almost a year. I haven't ridden an ACP or RUSA event in almost a year. Both had defined me, and letting go was tough. It wasn't that I couldn't, but seizing the opportunity to train and ride differently has been transformative. I think I needed the break from both in order to rediscover what draws me to the bike in the first place. I'm not making any big plans; but, I am more prepared for bigger things than I was at this same time last year. Here's to better fitness, better health, better miles, and a better perspective. ... #rideyourbike #milepost1445 
Prairie ghosts. ... 263rd and Bethel Church Rd., Richland Township, Miami County, KS. July 19, 2020. ... #rideyourbike #milepost1445 #unlearnpavement 
Route scouting from when it was WAY warmer, around the Wolf Creek generating station. Gonna have to make this ride happen in 2021, missed my own mark when I bailed on riding outside last October. Finally getting back out there. .. .. #audaxkc #rideyourbike #milepost1445 #abandonedrailway #mondaixmonsters 
When Ridgeview came through, just north of 239th Street. #bridgehunter #rideyourbike #milepost1445 #audaxkc 
I never post much from the moment it occurs. Images captured and left to season for a while come out of the cask as deeper, richer memories... so, I'll be spending the winter season slowly dosing out photos from this summer's cycling journey around my region. All of these shots take me immediately back to some distant roadside; tired, sweaty, full of simultaneous hope and sadness for the year that was 2020, while desperately trying to escape from it, or to at least make the best of it. In those moments of exhausted solitude I see the world at the appropriate scale, and with increased clarity. . It is impossible to convey the vastness of a scenic vista in a flat, silent image. Harder still to convey how different it looks when one sees it alone, after hours of hard pedaling has left them finally empty of the weight they had been carrying. Lungs full of fresh air, the smell of distant rain, and a crack of thunder snapping them immediately to that instant. There are no internal thoughts, no worries, no angry voices, nothing left at all ... only the tingling, bristling confirmation of one's true place in the world, as willing ears and widening eyes measure the scale of the landscape in rumbling echoes endeavoring to the horizon. For a few minutes, at last, the shoulders drop and the jaw falls slightly open, no longer coiled and tensed, no longer bracing for another round of bad news. We are so, so small... why do we try to carry it all? . August 7th, 2020; 271st near Woodland Rd. . #audaxkc #milepost1445 #rideyourbike 
Winter came early, so we had to adapt a little. Knocked out 203 miles on the indoor trainer across six days, and now happy to report my successful finish of the @destinationtrailraces RATUSA (Race Across The USA) solo division 2,572-mile virtual event! I was happy enough sitting in 5th overall since the halfway mark, but with my personal goal of finishing before Halloween (officially, event runs until 1/1/21) I started to turn up the heat and suddenly found myself in 3rd place overall and 2nd in my age group, enough to crawl up onto the podium! Thanks for a great event, and for the awesome motivation in an otherwise bleak-looking 2020 cycling season. Now let's see if I can make it back to the Pacific side before the end of the year (Ha, no...ok, maybe)! Big hats off to 1st and 2nd, that was an uncatchable pace, guys ... whoof! For those still on the course, Go Go Go! You got this! .... #audaxkc #destinationtrailraces #hammernutrition #ratusa #zwift #milepost1445 #commuteharder #rideyourbike #mondaixmonsters 
Sometimes it is hard to see the top of whatever you're climbing, but remember: the lack of a guaranteed positive outcome is not a reason to avoid trying. Keep pushing. The effort matters. ... #keeppedaling #audaxkc #rideyourbike #milepost1445 
Last nice day for a while; time to work from wherever! ... #rideyourbike #getoutside #milepost1445 #mobileworking 
Oh yeah, we're still out there, virtual dot-watchers ... Closing in on the East Coast with 386 miles to go until the 2,572 mark. We've got until end of year to finish, but, set a goal to wrap this up before Halloween. Lets go! @destinationtrailraces #unlearnpavement #audaxkc #rideyourbike #ridesolo #ratusa #destinationtrailraces #milepost1445 
Postcards from Agraria .. .. #oldbarn #milepost1445 #rideyourbike #unlearnpavement 
I wasn't always this bitter. Yeah, that's a lie, have we met? .. .. #rideyourbike #milepost1445