I really should be in bed right now. Andrew, the Dead 2 Red teammate with the backup truck, is going to be picking me up in 3 hours from now, and I only now just got done cleaning up the kitchen downstairs from the Second Annual Dead 2 Red Spaghetti Dinner (it’s a mouthful, pun [...]

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What happened to the desert country of Jordan? It rained all day today, the last Friday before the Dead 2 Red, so hard that Rami, Omar and I canceled our training plans in the hopes that we’ll have better luck tomorrow or some other time in the week.
I forgot I hadn’t set my new LG [...]

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For the first time in a year and a half, I mounted a bicycle today with the purpose of traveling to my place of work instead of for recreation. With the Dead 2 Red just around the corner and a week and a half away, I want to make sure that I’m in the best [...]

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In which Zach discusses the past week – involving his most-recent graduating students, the new training for the Dead 2 Red 2010, and Valentine’s Day gift-giving

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Cycling Jordan tries to host a few long-distance overnight trips each year, and now as the weather begins to finally turn cold in Jordan, Sa’ad invited his hardcore biking fans for the last overnight trip of the year (the other one was a camping trip in the south as well, but I was in Tajikistan [...]

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In which Zach realizes that although Cycling Jordan has done many excellent trips over the years, they’ve never cycled thousands of kilometers across dozens of borders to share a message of peace from the Pope to the Emir of Saudi Arabia. And that’s exactly what the men and women of the Rotary Club’s Cycle Tour for Peace is doing.

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