We’ve been looking forward to RimRide for a long time. The plan from day one was to ride it SS, not hard, and together. After Vision Quest, 1/2 of 2 Epic had a tendon injury that made riding SS impossible…there were a few weeks when we just didn’t know what we’d do. Gears? Skip...

Vision Quest is just around the corner. Never having ridden in the region, it seems like a good idea to figure out what I’m in for. As it turns out SoCal riders post a zillion GPS files of routes, races and training at GeoLadders - the VQ course is up at http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php...

As Fred W and I stood waiting for the start of Old Pueblo this year he was telling me about a different epic ride a month later in Moab. It was hard to think of doing the RimRide 2 minutes before starting a 24 hour effort…all I could think was the timing was bad, I [...]