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Ok, let me just say this at the beginning...biking in Turkey is crazy! Not that it's bad for biking it's just that we've run across nearly every situation I could have imagined. We started in Istanbul, a city of about 15,000,000 people and as many turns in the roads we were trying to follow. Most of the time we were biking along the Sea of Marmara until we came to the ship yards and had to head up into some of the neighborhoods. There aren't a whole lot of street signs so our google maps are… Continue

Well we're heading to Turkey in just a couple days. I'm actually flying out of this great city of minneapolis on Friday and should arrive in Istanbul on Saturday. This will be my first time flying with a bike and I'm hoping it arrives the same time I do.



Our trip is the shortest cycling trip Venture has this summer and I think I've let that fact influence my training a bit more than I should have. I did get out for a couple nice rides with one of my teammates Tim down in Des Moines… Continue