Now, more than ever, Wheels of Love 2023 relocates to Long Island - Dear Friends, I am so desperately sad about the current situation in Israel and the necessary cancellation of this year’s Wheels of Love ride. I had planned for this to be an announcement about my final training rides in Jerusalem this week before heading to the Negev, but that was not meant to be. However, … Continue reading "Now, more than ever, Wheels of Love 2023 relocates to Long Island"ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 4 & The Emotional Finish - Regba to Achziv Beach National Park, 50 miles, 4,700 ft elevation The last few miles of each year’s ride are always the most emotional of the entire journey. The brutal climbs are over and all that’s left is to take some pictures at the overlook at Rosh Hanikra and then ride a beautiful (flat!) last … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 4 & The Emotional Finish"
ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 4 (Part 1) - Regba to Achziv Beach National Park, 50 miles, 4,700 ft elevation Finally – a sunny day to finish up this year’s Wheels of Love. Our fearless leader Aviv announced some extra miles and some extra climbing to make up for yesterday’s rain-shortened ride. And extra climbing, it was indeed!! We climbed and climbed and climbed … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 4 (Part 1)"
ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 3 - Sde Nechemya to Shlomi, 42 miles, 5,068 ft elevation (*) (*) But … the weather! We started off with a beautiful sunny day and spirits were high. After a 10km flat warm up, we began a long killer climb with steep stretches of 10% and 11% gradient. It was slow going. And then the rain … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 3"
ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 2 - Sde Nechemya to Ginnosaur, 62+ miles (100 km), 2,600 ft elevation Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening! Whoa, the weather overnight was terrible and we awoke to heavy rain this morning. But our logistics crew is first rate and after working closely with the police and delaying the start, they came up with an alternate … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 2"
ALYN 2022 Wheels of Love – Day 1 - Misgav to Mishmar Hayarden, 44 miles, 4,298 ft elevation Well, so much for a good night’s sleep. I had way too much coffee, too late in the day and slept a mere two hours (if that). No worries, the adrenalin will carry me today. We had our opening ceremonies in Misgav with some speeches, lots … Continue reading "ALYN 2022 Wheels of Love – Day 1"ALYN Wheels of Love 2022 - Welcome to Israel!! This is my 16th year on the Wheels of Love and I am so grateful to all of my generous supporters over all these years and for the changes you have helped make for the Children of ALYN. To find out why I ride my butt off for these kids, please see this article … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love 2022"
ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 5 (part 2) - Ride A Bike, Change A Life – The Children of ALYN give us medals If you want to know what drives us to ride our bikes for hundreds of miles, to push ourselves to the brink of exhaustion, to keep climbing when our legs are screaming “no more” … then come with me to meet … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love – Day 5 (part 2)"
ALYN Wheels of Love 2019 – Day 5 (part 1) - The final emotional climb to ALYN (part 1) –50 miles, 5456 feet vertical It was only four short days ago that we began our journey for the Children of ALYN. But there was nothing short about the cycling, the climbing, the headwinds, the pacelines, the struggles to keep up or the ordeal. Today is the … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love 2019 – Day 5 (part 1)"
ALYN Wheels of Love 2019 – Day 4 - Anybody want to bike 100 miles? 97 miles (ok, just a bit shy), 2850 feet vertical After yesterday’s grueling ascent of Mt. Hermon, the ride organizers decided to pile on with a century ride of 100 miles. The good news was that we had more flat road riding and a lot of downhill descents, so … Continue reading "ALYN Wheels of Love 2019 – Day 4"
Journey with Jeff 