Pigeon Extraordinaire

Pigeon -- What does the word bring to mind ?

photo by sootyskye from flickr license CC-BY-NC-ND

• The pigeon about to lose his money in your friendly poker game?
• A multi-platform, multi-client messaging application?
• Andy Capp's rooftop hobby?
• A training partner?
• Your next meal?

In this case the pigeon is a prince.  Prince is a racer turned training partner.  Prince first started accompanying Jeff Daniel on his runs and later on his bicycle rides.  See Jeff and Prince's story here.

Paceline Defined

If you have ever seen the Tour de France or another professional bicycle race on TV you may have noticed a group of riders by themselves going faster than those chasing them.  When they are going in either a single file or two adjacent lines the formation is referred to as a paceline. 

Tour de Sinai

In May of 1990 sixteen of us started from El Gorah in the northern region of the Sinai Peninsula and trekked 342 miles through desert to reach our destination south of Sharm-el-Sheikh four and a half days later.