I have written about charity rides, community rides, and instructional rides. There are also those days of just "training". What is that all about? My ride started about 11:30 am with one of my fellow teammates. After the ADA Tour de Cure, the season for hard training was put on [...]
A Day in the Hills?! Another session of instruction, this time in the hills. The day, however, started off with thunderstorms at my house. Bad weather is not the way I wanted to start my day of riding. I checked the weather app – not really helping. It only showed [...]
Cycle Flagler came along on a hot, windy Sunday. This ride gave me the chance to put some of my recent instruction into action!! Last year, one of the highlights was just starting out riding on the airport runway. I took this opportunity to warm up slowly, at a reasonable pace, [...]
Time for more new things to learn. The destination - amazing Tavares, at Wooten Park for the starting point of an instruction session! My first two instructional sessions with Tracy were great, so I decided that it was time for more. This ride was going to be in the hills [...]
What a Ride! Everyone from TeamOne made it!!! Thank you all for making the 2017 Tour de Cure Lake Nona great! You did an amazing job helping me raise over $1,000 for the American Diabetes Association (ADA). You were part of Orlando's TeamOne's efforts which raised over $28,667. TeamOne 2017 [...]
A beautiful, sunny day in Mount Dora, Florida. Perfect setting for some practice. Let me fill you in on something - while I have been riding consistently now for about 2 1/2 years, there are some things that terrify me. Oh, yes...hills, cornering, and downhill speed in general. So I [...]
This year, in preparation for the ADA Tour de Cure, the 2017 Tour de Lake Nona team partnered with CyclingSavvy to offer a safety workshop for registered Tour de Cure participants. I attended in anticipation of learning something new from CyclingSavvy's instructor, Lee Sisselsky. I was not disappointed. The session [...]
Getting up early any morning is not necessarily anyone's favorite thing to do, especially on the weekend. But Sunday, September 18, it was not hard at all. Today was the Ride4Ronald. Ride4Ronald is a bike ride benefiting the 1,700 children and families the Ronald McDonald House serves each year. This was my [...]
A Saturday morning, high humidity, and temperatures would definitely hit the 90's. That was the background for today's ride - 2 club members (Dawn & I) participated in the Women on Wheels (WOW) event sponsored by Peloton Cyclist Club. This ride was dedicated to the female rider and the theme [...]
Since Jul 23, 2015, Chris has been fighting to recover. Update: On Jun 1, 2016, Chris Liddy has passed on and is at peace. Our prayers and condolences go out to the Liddy family. If you would like to help the Liddy family, please follow the link "gofundme". Every [...]
Tracy Draper - cyclist and author. She is a local cyclist from Mount Dora who rode across country ... yes ... across the continental United States. She came to David's World Cycle for a book signing. Her book is titled "Live It: Riding the Highs and Lows of a Cross [...]
For the first time in Central Florida, a Ladies Only Cycling event was held benefiting the Coalition for the Homeless Women and Children of Central Florida. On Sunday, March 29th, I participated in the Ladies On Wheels in a one-day women-only cycling event through Saint Cloud, Florida. I decided on the 33-mile [...]
What a Ride! Everyone from TeamOne made it, with only two incidents!!! Thank you all for making the 2015 Tour de Cure Lake Nona great! You did an amazing job helping me raise over $1,000 for the American Diabetes Association (ADA). You were part of Orlando's TeamOne's efforts which raised [...]
March 14, 2015: I had the opportunity to go to a special ADA Tour de Cure event. Chris Carmichael was a special speaker. Now at the time I had no idea who Chris Carmichael was -- but I read the invite. Wow!!!! This was the guy that coached Lance Armstrong. [...]
On February 21, 2015, it was overcast and looked like it was going to rain regardless of the weather, the day would hold many firsts for me. This unseasonable weather didn't stop the Daytona International Speedway Xfinity 300 Series from getting underway. First off, let me say I am not [...]
