Long-distance, unsupported, non-competitive, endurance cycling in Alaska
Posted in 200K, Brevet, Randonneuring, Talkeetna, Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2013
Cast your cruelty aside, April. We’re riding anyways! Come join us in Talkeetna next Saturday, April 13th, for the launch of the 2013 Alaska randonneuring season. Talkeetna is a great destination town for us with its wonderful hotels, restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and brewery. The Talkeetna Roadhouse is rolling out the red carpet for us with [...]
Posted in 100K, 200K, Anchorage, Brevet, Eagle River, Populaire, Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2012
Designing randonneuring courses that are new, exciting, and challenging is often a struggle in a region like Alaska with so few roads. It's tough to keep our courses fresh and the overlap between events to a minimum. That's part of the reason why our original 200K course, designed by past RBA Bob Voris, was put [...]
I rode the Talkeetna 200k course on Saturday. The weather was great and the mountain was out, it was a beautiful day to be out riding. Even motorists on the Park’s were friendly. I expect the same next weekend. Overall the course is in great shape. The bike path along the Talkeetna Spurr was [...]
Posted in 200K, 400K, Brevet, Denali Highway, Seward on Jun 2nd, 2010
The AEA’s Denali Classic was an amazing experience. We made a bunch of new friends and are grateful to Carlos and the gang for letting the Alaska Randonneurs offer a brevet option for their ride. The Denali Highway is a magical 135-mile gravel road paralleling the Alaska Range between the communities of Cantwell on the [...]
Posted in 200K, Brevet, Matanuska Valley on May 18th, 2010
30 riders, the most ever for an Alaska brevet, stormed the backroads of the Matanuska Valley last Sunday. Thanks to all the “regulars”, as well as new riders, for coming out to test yourself against Palmer’s headwinds, Wasilla’s pitbulls, and Houston’s hailstorms. Tell all your friends how much fun you had on this ride, then [...]
Posted in 200K, Brevet, Matanuska Valley on May 14th, 2010
Come ride the Matanuska Valley 200K brevet this Sunday, May 16th. Roll on some new roads, meet some new riders, and have a great time! Test yourself for a personal-best, or simply come out for the views and friends! Ride details & cue sheet available HERE. A few photos from last year’s Mat Valley 200K [...]
Posted in 200K, Brevet, End-of-the-Road, Homer, Two Sisters Bakery on May 12th, 2010
The End-of-the-Road 200K brevet was just amazing. The morning snow shower up high on East End Road added to the challenge, but the ocean scenery and warmer late-afternoon temps down at the beach in Anchor Point made it all worth while. The other critical component making this ride so unbelievably satisfying is the people who [...]
Eliot poeticized that, “April is the cruellest month…”, and that’s why we only have one brevet in the month before May! T.S. quickly characterizes early spring’s bleakness in the first few lines of his poem The Waste Land. And when he writes, “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” I wonder if [...]
I’m really looking forward to this year’s randonneuring season, and am excited to be heading to Kenai later this week for our season opener. Rando-Info Night at the Anchorage REI on 4/6 was packed. Going in, there were only 6 people registered to attend. By the time the show started, we were near capacity with [...]
It’s the season of the Belgian toothpaste. There’s still a lot of snow on the ground, but the roads are pretty much dry, and people are out there riding. Inquiries about the brevets and randonneuring in general have been increasing in frequency, so before the April 17 Kenai 200K, Bob Voris (PBP ancien ’99) and [...]
Posted in 200K, 300K, Denali Highway on Feb 19th, 2010
The month of May typically brings very stable weather across Southcentral Alaska. If you’re at all familiar with the writings of author David Roberts, and his seminal mountaineering book Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, you’ll stand an excellent chance of seeing Deborah on our newly approved, May 29th, Denali Highway 300K brevet (a 200K is in [...]
“Thank you, you came here.” That’s the translation of the control clue found on the sign at Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in the Native village of Eklutna, north of Anchorage. Nine riders set off early on Saturday morning from the south end of Potter Marsh for one of six 300 Km brevets offered this weekend [...]
I am amazed at the high quality of road riding available on the Kenai Peninsula. Throw any stereotypes you may have of the area out the window, and do yourself a favor. Go down and explore those roads. Some of the best road riding in Alaska can be had down in Homer and Kenai. The [...]
Posted in 200K, Homer, Two Sisters Bakery on Mar 1st, 2009
Homer begins our bicycle Odyssey. You won’t have ten years to complete this one though, and you have to use a bike, rather than a boat. RUSA regulations give you an ample 13.5 hours. It’s early in the season, but as my friend Bob says, “Any reasonably fit cyclist can ride 200KM in a day. [...]
Our new website hasn’t had it’s official debut yet, but it’s picking up a little traffic, guessing from the feedback I’m getting from some of you. I’ll make the formal launch soon. Just working on the finishing touches. From the sounds of it, the schedule is going to work. I think it’s a good one; [...]
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