Notes on the annual double century

For five of the last six years I have gone on a cycling double century. Friends and I - some racers, some not, but all enthusiasts of the highest degree - roll out of State College, PA and head north to Wellsboro and then back along the Pine Creek Gorge and eventually back to State College over the course of roughly 210 miles in one day. It's a brilliant day. This year, we had 15 people make the whole thing, 7 first-timers and 3 women, and one (me) with a cold. Incredible.

And my friend Leah has chronicled the whole thing over at her blog Chaya de Cacao in two entries, one in pictures and the other in words.


(Left to right: Leah, Rachel, Joe, Allen, Steve, Ho, Vicki, Rich, Eric, Bill, Jim, and Me)