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How to Give Rob Hawks A Heart Attack (aka 2021 SFR Winters 200K)

Posted on 15/12/2021 by kprebil

The SFR Winters 200K is one of my absolute favorite 200k rides. During non-pandemic times, this ride includes lunch in the tiny town of Winters, California that most people in the Bay Area have never even heard of despite turnoff … Continue reading →

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My First DART!

Posted on 08/10/2021 by kprebil

Campfires *and camp stoves* being banned from the King Ridge area of the Lost Coast made it a relatively easy decision to cancel my Lost Coast backpacking trip from September 25 – 27 right around the time my friend Ken … Continue reading →

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Getting Back on that 300K Horse

Posted on 05/07/2021 by kprebil

I’d been looking forward to hiking Mt Whitney since I applied for the permit lottery back in February. I was awarded a one day permit for Wednesday, 23 June 2021 which was also a full moon. My friend Dan and … Continue reading →

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Return of the Brevet

Posted on 18/05/2021 by kprebil

All brevets were cancelled in March 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared leaving many of us without our usual long rides scheduled. I didn’t even do a 100K for a long enough time that my legs felt sore … Continue reading →

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10 Years

Posted on 02/03/2021 by kprebil

Ten years ago today was the day that I had my first periacetabular osteotomy or as I call it, a “refurbishing” of my hip joints. A periacetabular osteotomy (aka “Ganz Osteotomy”) was invented by Dr. Reinhold Ganz at the University … Continue reading →

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What is Essential Is Invisible to the Eye

Posted on 07/07/2020 by kprebil

It was August 1996 and I was in the TV room of Akwe:kon, the Native American Residential House at Cornell University watching TV with a freshman named Beth. Beth was whiter than fresh snow from Michigan and had just arrived … Continue reading →

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0.0 : I Don’t Run — Or Do I?

Posted on 29/03/2020 by kprebil

I’m not a runner. I have never liked running. Running was a horrible punishment for my high school Women’s Swim Team when we still had 2 months left of the semester after the Fall sport season was over. Insult to … Continue reading →

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300K for A Buck

Posted on 29/10/2019 by kprebil

I woke up half an hour before my alarm on Saturday and immediately felt like not showing up to that day’s 300K. I’d been worried about it all week as I wasn’t sure if I could ride 300K let alone … Continue reading →

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Climb after climb after climb…repeat

Posted on 27/09/2019 by kprebil

My friend Ken said back in April to register for any route of the Marin Century ride and he’ll sign up for the same one so we could do it together. I’d always wanted to do the Mount Tam Double … Continue reading →

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Going Rando

Posted on 10/07/2019 by kprebil

When my friend Ken said that it was his goal this year to get me to do a double century (200 miles), I thought he was crazy, but I was also up for the challenge. He introduced me to this … Continue reading →

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