Ride Your Own Ride and Other Lies – By Michel Hébert

“The truth is, no one rides their own ride. Not all the way through.” As published on Michel’s blog: Cadence and Consequence Photo from the Start of Heaven and Hill 600k brevet – the first Ride of the 2025 Devil Week What Randonneurs Owe Each Other June 16, 2025 We were lounging in the shade, watching ships slide up the St. Clair River like they had somewhere important to be. Fred, dressed in dark sunglasses and a face-shielding nose piece, looked like Batman between gigs. “You either DNF a hero,” he growled, “or ride long enough to become the villain.” That was at kilometer 150, well be...

Beaver Valley 400 – July 5th, 2025 – By Michael Charland Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/36938989  Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/15020471742  Background  I first did this ride during devil week in 2022. About 10 of us started the ride. I road it on my Cervelo and it went really well. Funny I lost my Brevet card mid ride so I took pictures at the controls and Charles found my card on the Epping road climb. I finished in an elapsed time of 19:35. This became my longest ride in distance and time. I didn’t end up doing in 2023 because a had just completed a trail running race...