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A Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
Plus, Endurance versus Speed and Stats for the Nerds
Sam Westby
March 21, 2026
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Here’s what we have today.
🌍 RIDE: Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
💡 TIP: Endurance versus Speed
🎥 WATCH: An IRONMAN documentary
📰 NEWS: New bike lanes, bikeshare stations, and tabled bills
Written by Sam Westby, @samcwestby
ROUTE ON MY RADAR
Bicycle Ride Across Georgia
Source: brag.org
Here’s what you’d be getting yourself into.
Ride 400 miles (644 kilometers) along Georgia’s western border on May 30 - June 6, 2026
Fully supported with rest stops every 10-20 miles (food, drinks, assistance)
Includes camping accommodations, usually at schools or parks
This ride has been happening since the 1980’s
~1000 other riders
Registration cost: $540
Official website: https://brag.org/
BIKE TIP
Endurance versus Speed
If you’re starting to ramp up your miles this spring, you might be wondering:
Should I try to go faster… or farther?
My take: endurance unlocks both.
Creating a solid Zone 2 training base (60%-70% of your maximum heart rate) takes time in the saddle. You shouldn’t feel like death, too hard, and you’re no longer training for endurance. You shouldn’t feel like daisies, either. If a marathon runner only trained with long walks, they wouldn’t improve much.
If you want to get faster, what it takes is an extra workout per week. Intervals.
Repeating short sets spiking to Zone 3 or 4 (70%-90% of your maximum heart rate) take your endurance base and raise the speed. No endurance base = No extra speed. These workouts could look like 7 minutes hard, 3 minutes easy, repeated 4 times.
That is more or less my training plan this spring.
WHAT I’M WATCHING
Proving Myself Right: An Ironman Documentary
Been watching more IRONMAN content this week, getting stoked for IRONMAN Wisconsin!
This is a 1-hour documentary about Noah’s journey.
Watch on YouTube
Paused. 2 weeks ago, Caltrain set a ban on large bikes (e-bikes/cargo bikes) on trains. After pushback, that ban has been paused. (Streetsblog)
200. The number of new stations that Divvy, Chicago’s bikeshare, will build in 2026. (Fox 32)
Delays. Boston’s Mayor Wu is under pressure about unclear delays in transportation projects. (WBUR)
4 miles. Reno, Nevada, is moving forward with plans to build 4 miles of bike lanes in their downtown. (thisisreno.com)
$15.5 million. The cost of a two-way bike lane being built on Ocean Avenue, near Prospect Park in New York City. (Gothamist)
Secured. Legal definitions for Class 1-3 e-bikes in Washington State. (Seattle Bike Blog)
Terminated. New York City ended criminal summonses for cyclists. (Gothamist)
Tabled. A Virginia bill that would have allowed cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs. It passed unanimously in the House, but was stopped by the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee on March 6. (FABB Bikes)
A Note From Sam
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