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When Mary Owido, 36, a senior school teacher at Isebania, on the Kenya-Tanzania border, learned that a girl she knew had been murdered and parts of her body removed, she became afraid for her own life because, like the murdered girl, Mary was an albino. In 2009, Mary moved to Ahero, in western Kenya, where she now works for less pay and brings up her six children. However, she still doesn't feel safe. "Wherever I go people start talking about me, saying that my legs and hands can fetch a fortune in Tanzania. That kind of talk scares me."
Albinos suffer this rare hereditary condition when both parents donate a recessive gene, and in Africa they already have a hard time, enduring insults, discrimination and ostracism all their lives, as well as an increased risk of contracting skin cancer. The chairman of the Albino Association of Kenya, Isaac Mwaura, said 90 per cent of albinos in the region were raised by single mothers because fathers accused their wives of having an affair with a white man. "When I was born, my father said his family tree doesn't have such children and he left us," he said. He was lucky; a generation ago such pale-skinned children – also called 'ghosts' or 'zeros' (zeru) – were killed at birth.
Nevertheless, there is a very old and widely held belief that albinos are 'otherworldly' and have an innate magical power that can be transferred to others. For example, fishermen on Lake Victoria will weave albino hair into their nets to improve their catches; and miners in the Mbeya coal-fields have been known to splash albino blood on the ground, wear albino muti charms or bury albino bones to 'attract' gems and gold where they dig. Again, according to Andrew Malone of the Daily Mail, many Africans believe that having sex with an albino will cure diseases – a belief that has led to "countless rapes and leaving them HIV positive". Mary had good reason for her anxiety to intensify. The pressure of modern living has created a huge demand for magic charms to procure luck, money and success, leading inevitably to a surge in the numbers of 'muti-hunters' seeking their chief ingredient, albino body parts.
Confirmation of this can be seen in an interview with well-known Zulu sangoma Credo Mutwa (he has his own Wiki page), made in September 1999 by Rick Martin of the US newspaper Spectrum. Asked about rumours of human sacrifices to demons, Mutwa replied: "Not all Africans have got black hair. There are Africans who are regarded as very holy, as very sacred. These are Africans who are born with natural red hair. These Africans are believed to be very spiritually powerful. Now, in Africa, such people, albeamers or red-headed Africans, were the most victims of sacrifice, especially when they were just entering maturity – whether they were males or females." From the context, it seems most likely that the word italicised (albeamers) is a transcription error by Martin of 'albinos', and that it is the folk-attribution of an innate "spiritual power" to the albinos that makes their body parts a profitable target for the muti hunters.
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The Zulu word muti is used widely in numerous languages across Africa to mean, generally, 'medicine', but it can also mean a supernatural medicine. It is likely that the practice of muti-killings (what African police and sociologists call 'medicine murders') have plagued the people for centuries. Given the prices involved, it is thought that most clients must be rich or work at high levels in industry and government, or else a man will bankrupt himself for a charm that will guarantee him promotion, riches or virility – or so he has been promised. In Southern Africa, they go to a traditional shaman (Zulu, sangoma or inyanga) who tells them what ingredients they have to provide, from which the specific muti will be made. This 'shopping list' is then given to middlemen who commission the killers. Strictly, muti is not preceded by killing the victim, who should be conscious during mutilation; it is part of this horrible belief that the agonised screams of the victim, before s/he succumbs to shock and blood-loss, makes the muti more potent. The ghastly ingredients are then cooked into a paste or powder which can be put into charms or clothing, smeared on skin (usually into cuts to make scars), ingested or placed at a significant location.
While the specific attacks on albinos are a relatively recent escalation, the muti trade has seen sinister specialisations before. For example, one of the last internationally reported outrages occurred back in Tanzania in 2000. At that time, a gang clubbed 20-year-old Enicko Simkoko as he worked on a remote field near Mbeya and skinned him alive. They were caught when the middleman, in the town of Tunduma, was spotted drying the skin in his hotel room. Apparently their 'client' had paid 5,000 dollars. Around the same time another gang were caught after butchering 14-year-old Leo Kimwegile-Swile as he herded his father's cattle… and another when an undercover policeman bought from them the skin of 11-year-old schoolboy Job Kajange. These and other 'skin' killings prompted senior police officers from Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia to expel "foreign witchdoctors" blamed for the 'skin' trade which had raged especially since January 1999. Despite a dire threat from Mbeya MP Edison Halinga – "All human skinners will be skinned. There will be no mercy." – it did nothing to stop other dark aspects of muti; indeed, it left the field open to local witchdoctors as the fad for skin turned to albinos.
The albino murders came to international notice mid-2007 – see FT240:8. However, it is quite possible that a public rally in support of albinos, held in Dar-es-Salaam in October 2008, and a spate of frightening witchcraft films made in Nigeria, inspired evil minds to go further. There were three murders immediately after that rally. Migration of miners from the Mbeya area was also suggested as a vector for spreading the albino-muti belief. By November 2008, there were 30 known albino mutilations; by January 2009, 53. Condemnation from the European Union and the United Nations followed, spurring Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda to order the revocation of "the licenses of all traditional healers with immediate effect". It had little effect; almost immediately one BBC reporter encountered around 10 sangomas operating openly just outside Dar-es-Salaam. One told her angrily that theirs was a legal trade, much in demand, and the government should be making the police and other official departments do more to stop the killings. Only now are the police forces involved suggesting that the albino muti-trade is greater and more organised than first suspected; that it has escalated from murders for individual clients to supplying a pan-African network of criminal gangs.
July 2009: despite the arrest of at least 200 people in Tanzania – including a fisherman at Lake Tanganyika caught trying to sell his albino wife for around £2,000 and a man arrested at the border with an albino baby's head – there were still few convictions. The authorities in Ruyigi, in neighbouring Burundi, responded more forcefully, convicting 13 men for the murders of at least 12 albinos. Tanzania's president Jakaya Kikwete ordered the police to locate albinos and offer them protection. There is a growing public resentment of the police, whom some accuse of taking bribes to ignore the crimes. Under the Same Sun, a Canadian albino-rights-group, questions the will of the authorities to stop the murders as a large number of the prosecutions are suspended "for lack of funds". Peter Ash, for the Canadian group and an albino himself, spoke movingly about Mariam Masala, a girl of five (or eight), whose throat was cut and blood drained into a saucepan. Her attackers then drank the blood in front of the girl's siblings before cutting off both her legs. Only one of the Tanzanian cases, the murder of a 13-year-old boy, Matatizo Dunia, was successfully prosecuted and his three murderers sentenced to hang. The Tanzania Albino Society (TAS) calls for a public execution, but despite more than 100 people on death row, said a BBC local correspondent, "no one has been executed in 15 years".
During that terrible phase, the Tanzanian government appointed the country's first albino MP, Ms Al-Shymaa Kwegyir. She adds some details to the awful fate of Mr Ash's Mariam. Ms Kwegyir knew the child's mother. She told the MP that she had been ordered by family elders to dress the girl in black and leave her alone in a hut. Confused and frightened, the mother obeyed. Later, "unknown men went straight to the hut. They used a machete to cut off the child's legs, cut her throat and drink her blood." The complicity of family members "inspired by ignorance and greed" was a disturbing factor; also, "this was the first cannibalistic case," she said, hinting at the possibility of a horrifying new detail in the attacks.
The Tanzanian government's initiatives are regarded by many albinos as too little too late; they still live in fear. After the Prime Minister's edict, "another albino was killed that very night," says Zihada Msembo, general secretary of TAS. "If you work you are unsure of reaching home safely," he added, "and when you sleep, you are unsure of waking up in one piece." Ms Kwegyir also highlighted the case of Mariam Staford Bandaba, 28, one of "the many brave people" who attended the Dar-es-Salaam rally. She was followed home and savagely attacked. Her left hand was chopped off, but the attempt on her right one was botched before her assailants ran away. Mariam survived, one of the rare ones, but her right arm had to be amputated in the hospital. Despite her terrible trauma, she identified her attackers after they were caught, so the government put her in a safe-house under police protection. But in October 2009 that year was up and the protection and accommodation was withdrawn; the reason given is that "no albinos were killed in her home village in the past year." A local businessman has offered her and her elderly mother temporary accommodation, she told BBC reporter Erick Nampesya, crying, "as she had no idea what will happen to her".
The bad news is that these muti-murders are still going on.
Independent, 29 Oct 1999; Observer (Tanzania), 2 April; D.Telegraph, 6 April; Weekly Telegraph, 12 April 2000; MX News (Brisbane), 22 July; Times, 4 Nov; Sun, 9 Dec 2008; Irish Times, 24 Jan; BBC News, 26 Jan, 23 July, 23+24 Sept, 19 Oct, 2 Nov; Times, 9 Mar; Guardian, 16 Mar; Independent, 25 July, 24 Sept; MX News (Brisbane), 25 Sept, 30 Nov; D.Mail, 25 Sept; Observer, 16 Nov; [AP] 28 Nov 2009.
Credo Mutwa/Spectrum interview (30 Sept 1999).


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- Product Code: BRM-00462
- UPC Code: 039978004628
- Package Quantity: 22 oz (623 g)
- Dimensions: 2.5 x 4 x 6.4 in, 1.4 lbs (0.64kg)
- Expiration Date: Apr 2016
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Product Overview
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- Light Fluffy
- Great Tasting
- Wheat Free
- Dairy Free
- Naturally Wholesome
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- Casein Free
- Kosher Pareve
Our Gluten Free Pancake Mix makes up quickly and produces perfect, very light and fluffy pancakes everyone will enjoy. Use any kind of milk — soy, rice, almond, or cow - that is suitable for your diet. Add blueberries or bananas for pure pleasure.
Bob's Red Mill products labeled Gluten Free are milled and blended in our dedicated gluten free mill room, packaged in our dedicated gluten free packaging room, and batch tested in our dedicated gluten free quality control laboratory. We use an ELISA Gluten Assay test to confirm that a product is gluten free.
Dear Friends,
Since starting this company over thirty years ago, our mission has always been to offer the most diverse array of stone ground, whole grain products. About ten years ago, we noticed that some folks were exclusively buying gluten free grains like brown rice, sorghum and quinoa. Soon after that, we learned all about celiac disease and gluten intolerance and how serious they are to millions of people like you.
Over the years we have introduced a variety of measures to ensure purity in our line of gluten free products that have become industry standard. We inspect all farm deliveries, use dedicated gluten free production facilities and employ batch testing in our quality control laboratory. Knowing that we're providing safe and delicious gluten free foods that you and your family can trust makes it all worth the effort.
To your good health.
Suggested Use
Pancake Mix Directions
1 1/2 cups Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Pancake Mix
1 Large Egg
3/4 cup Milk (cow, soy, rice, almond)
1 Tbsp. Vegetable Oil
Combine Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Pancake Mix, egg, milk and vegetable oil. Blend all ingredients in blender or whisk vigorously in bowl until thoroughly mixed. Let batter stand and pre-heat nonstick griddle to medium high temperature. Lightly oil or spray griddle with cooking or baking spray. For test pancake, pour scant 1/4 cup batter onto griddle and cook until top is bubbly. Turn and cook until golden brown. Adjust the temperature as needed. If necessary, adjust batter by adding more pancake mix or milk, one Tbsp. at a time. Continue with remaining batter. Makes eight 4-inch pancakes. Serves 4 (two 4-inch pancakes per serving).
Note: This pancake mix will work using egg alternatives. Follow manufacturer's instructions for substituting eggs.
Other Ingredients
Potato starch, whole grain sorghum flour, tapioca flour, whole corn flour, cane sugar, baking powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch and monocalcium phosphate), baking soda, sea salt and xanthan gum.
Manufactured in a facility that also uses tree nuts and soy.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: Two 4" Pancakes (42 g mix)
|Servings Per Container: About 15
|Amount Per Serving:
|As Prepared
|Calories from Fat
% Daily Value**
|Total Fat
|0 g*
|Saturated Fat
|0 g
|Trans Fat
|0 g
|0 mg
|650 mg
|Total Carbohydrate
|32 g
|Dietary Fiber
|2 g
|3 g
|1 g
|Vitamin A
|Vitamin C
|* Amount in mix
|**Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
|Total Fat
|Less than
|65 g
|80 g
|Sat Fat
|Less than
|25 g
|Less than
|300 mg
|300 mg
|Less than
|2,400 mg
|2,400 mg
|Total Carbohydrate
|300 g
|375 g
|Dietary Fiber
|25 g
|30 g


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Leaving their marks on the world
By Jennifer M. Latzke
Everyone has the potential to leave his or her mark on the world.
Take the tale of two leaders. The first, a quiet 1960s Kansas farm wife and mother. The other, a military veteran poised to take public office for a lifetime of service to his state and his country.
Now, I don't think either ever imagined the legacies of leadership they'd leave with one Kansas farm girl. But both did in their unique ways.
The first would be my maternal great-great grandmother, Meta Marie Eilts Jennison.
She passed away shortly after I was born. And while I never knew her, I carry her with me through family stories and photos. My mother's middle name is Marie, as is mine, and I've always been told she was so proud that the name was passed down through two generations. Looking at photos of her I see that we share the same head tilt, the same smile, the same nose. We even have the same twinkle in our eyes.
Family members tell me she passed on her terrific sense of humor to me. That like me, she liked to laugh, that she was a positive and loving woman. And, like myself, she too wanted to leave the world better and brighter, even if it was just through her little family in her little corner of Kansas.
Now, the second leader is a little more famous. Retired Sen. Bob Dole spent his career working on a much larger scale than Great-Grandma Meta.
I can remember as a child being awed that a Kansas kid could grow up to have such influence in national politics. I voted for him for president in my very first election as a registered 18-year-old voter. Now, say what you will about Sen. Dole's tactics, I've always admired how he could reach across an aisle, put aside differences and make things happen for the betterment of all.
The lesson he showed me through his service was that if he could do all that, imagine what I could do.
Which is why I leapt at the assignment to cover Dole's farewell tour stop at the Kansas Wheat Improvement Center in Manhattan, Kansas, in May.
Oh, I try to be objective as a reporter. I try not to gush over the folks I cover. But, because he is 90 years of age, there might not be another chance to tell Sen. Dole thanks for his service to Kansas and the United States.
Then, the day before my trip to Manhattan, I found what could only be a wink from heaven. There, on a distant cousin's Facebook page, a 1960 photo of Great-Grandmother Meta—with a very young congressional hopeful named Bob Dole on his first campaign.
It seemed only right that I should then stand in the receiving line for a photo with Sen. Dole, considering she was at the beginning of his career and I at the end.
She changed the world her way, through her family. He changed the world his way, through public service.
He was gracious when I showed him the picture of himself and Great-Grandma. He remarked that that had been some time back, but he smiled fondly at the memories it raised.
I think Great-Grandma would have found the gesture pleasing. I imagine she would say that everything and everyone has its time and then the next generation has to take on the mantle. We all share the responsibility for a better world, after all.
And, I can't help but wonder, following their examples, how will I change the world for the better?
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Controlled payment number
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Controlled payment number was introduced primarily as an anti-fraud measure so that a virtual unique credit card number may be generated to settle a specific transaction, on an exact date by an authorized individual, making the possibility of a fraud occurring significantly less than a traditional physical card, which can be lost, stolen or indeed cloned.
A controlled payment number (a trademark of Orbiscom[1]), also called by generic names "substitute credit card number", "one-time use credit card", "disposable credit card" and "virtual credit card number", or "Virtual Card Numbers (VCN)" is an alias for a credit card number. It is generated through the use of either a Web application or a specialized client program, interacting with the card issuer's computer, and is linked to the actual credit card number.
Typically, a controlled payment number had a limit, and an expiration date between two and twelve months from the issue date, both chosen by the account owner, and while it could usually be set up to allow multiple transactions, it could only be used with a single merchant. This "alias" number is indistinguishable from an ordinary credit card number, and the user's actual credit card number is never revealed to the merchant. Consequently if it is compromised a fraudulent user can usually not steal money, and the limit reduces how much a dishonest merchant can steal.
This technology has been evolving for some time and goes under several different names.
In 2006, a UK based Company Conferma created software that operates as a payment platform, enabling the creation of single use, unique virtual credit card numbers, specifically for use in the corporate travel and hospitality markets.
Conferma-powered partner solutions for corporate payments with virtual card numbers:
- Barclaycard Precisionpay[2] In 2008, the leading UK credit card issuer, became Conferma's first banking partner.
- HSBC "MiBooking"[3][4]
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- Abacus [6] Global Distribution System in the Asian Pacific region.[7]
- Visa Virtual Travel account platform, is made available to Visa Europe member[8] banks and other payment service providers from 37 countries across Europe and their commercial customers.
January 2009, Mastercard and Cyota Inc acquired the controlled payment number system developed by Orbiscom, a Dublin-based payment processing company.[9] In the USA, the system is used by the following credit card issuers: Bank of America "ShopSafe"[10] (inherited when it acquired MBNA) and Citibank "Virtual Account Numbers".[11] Examples from other countries are MBnet, which can create a payment number linked to virtually any credit or debit card emitted in Portugal.
Orbiscom's patented payment technologies has been integrated with MasterCard's global processing platform, "inControl".[12]
In 2013 Royal Bank of Scotland MasterCard customers became eligible for MasterCard's enhanced Central Travel Service (eCTS), which uses VCN technology. This service is intended to provide companies currently paying for travel through multiple accounts with a centralised travel payments system.[13]
Abine offers a service called MaskMe which for a monthly subscription allows users, as of October 2014[update] in the USA only, to create what they call "masked credit cards" for a user-specified amount and using a specified Abine billing address.[14]
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On February 7, 2014, the US Discover Card discontinued its Secure Online Account Numbers service, saying that Discover no longer had access to the underlying technology. All existing Secure Online Account Numbers expired on March 16, 2014.[15]
In the UK, Ivobank offered a similar "virtual card" until it went bankrupt in 2009, and Cahoot withdrew their Webcard in October 2009.
American Express's "Private Payments" was available from late 2000 to 2004.
Paypal discontinued their virtual credit card service on September 22, 2010.[16]
UK-based Neteller offered Net+, a "virtual debit card" with card details generated uniquely for each transaction, from 2008 to 2012; it was discontinued on 29 February 2012, citing lack of use by customers.
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Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein is asking fans to be demanding. He says they should expect a winner. | Ross D. Franklin~AP
Updated: April 10, 2012 11:26AM
MESA, Ariz. — The binder is fat, maybe two inches thick. It doesn't look particularly splashy or inviting. If it were titled, "Specifications for the V8 Engine'' or "Drywalling Illustrated,'' you wouldn't blink.
The one on Theo Epstein's desk is titled, "Player Development Manual.'' You blink.
It's a point-by-point, almost painfully detailed handbook for how the Cubs want baseball to be taught to their players, at all levels. It's a rough draft of the manual that soon will be distributed to coaches and managers throughout the organization and, eventually, to all Cubs minor-league players.
There are sections on pitching, outfield play, infield play, strength and conditioning, catching, baserunning, basestealing and team fundamentals.
It would more aptly be titled, "The Cub Way.''
That suggestion surely will give rise to all kinds of jolliness: Apparently, "Lost'' and "One Hundred Years of Solitude'' were already taken as titles. Et cetera.
But you might not want to laugh too much. The Cubs are doing what they should have done a long time ago. Lots of teams have a uniform philosophy to go along with their uniforms. The Cubs were decades behind in that department. You would be right to ask what took so long, but the answer is that this is an organization whose locomotion has been dictated by the snail shell on its back.
Epstein, whom the Cubs hired in October as president of baseball operations, took pains Wednesday to point out that the idea of an organizational manual is nothing new in major-league baseball. But it's a culture shift for a franchise whose memory of winning is, shall we say, foggy.
"We're not tooting our own horn,'' he said. "But if you skip this step, there's no foundation for success. You might run into being a good team one year, but you don't know how you got there. You might have developed an All-Star, but can you do it again? Do you have the right people with the right information teaching the game the right way?''
The idea is simple. The hitting coaches at each level should share the same philosophy and use the same terminology. Same with the pitching coaches. Same with the strength coaches. If they don't, players will be confused.
The success of this depends in part on whether the foundation is based on solid principles. If it isn't, the only uniformity you'll have is uniform disappointment. For now, we'll have to trust that Epstein, who won two World Series with the Red Sox, identified the right people when he put together his scouting department and coaching staffs. They're the people who helped put together the manual.
During the club's organizational meetings in February, each manager, coach and scout came prepared with ideas about winning baseball. Each facet of the game received the kind of attention normally reserved for the Zapruder film.
"We spent six hours just on baserunning, all of us in the same room,'' Epstein said. "Down to every detail — literally, what foot are our players going to hit the bag with when they make that turn going from first to third or second to home? We spent six hours on fielding, six hours on hitting, six hours on pitching.
''It was everybody bringing their ideas to the table so we can agree on a set of core beliefs on what we're going to teach. If we're not all on the same page as a front office, as a major-league staff, as minor-league instructors, as scouts, how can we expect our players to be?''
The Cubs aren't expected to be good this season, but these are exciting times regardless. Given the fact the Cubs haven't won a World Series in — stop me if you've heard this — 103 years, Epstein has a captive audience inside the organization.
"There's a universal recognition here that we need to try a different way,'' he said. "The 103 years … I basically ignore it, but I think it provides a really nice mandate to get back to basics and to try a different approach. So everyone's on board. The fact that it's been awhile here creates universal buy-in.''
The Cubs need good players to go by the team's good book, and Epstein admits the talent level in the minor-league system isn't nearly high enough, especially in the pitching department. In other words, this is going to take time.
He calls the draft "the single most important day of the year.'' You might not want to hear that on a first date, but you do want to hear it from the guy running your baseball team. For years, the Cubs were understaffed in the scouting department. The farm system got little attention as Tribune Co. chose to throw money at veteran free agents. It's how you get eight years of Alfonso Soriano and his escapades in left field.
Epstein will never be confused with a carnival barker, but he is selling something.
"There's an opportunity for the fans to get in on the ground floor,'' he said. "We're not asking them to be patient. We're asking them to be demanding. They should expect a winner.
"… They can get invested with this 2012 club and the players, but they can also follow along with the way the organization is being built. Pay attention to the draft and the prospects.''
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Two State Patrol troopers are recovering at home after crashing their patrol cars into each other early Tuesday morning in Lynnwood.
The troopers were responding to a report of a stolen car and a chase when they collided just after midnight at Maple Road and Ash Way.
"Basically, two troopers who aren't part of the pursuit who were coming from other parts of the county to become involved in the pursuit, collided in an intersection," said Washington State Patrol spokesman Mark Francis.
The t-bone crash gave one trooper a concussion and a broken finger. The other trooper suffered abrasions. They were hospitalized and then sent home to recover, said Francis.
Earlier, the State Patrol had pulled over a Dodge Avenger in the South Everett-Lynnwood area. The car came up as stolen and the 27-year-old driver from Normandy Park was arrested.
Francis said one of the two passengers got behind the wheel and sped away, eventually heading southbound on I-5 into King County with speeds reaching 120 miles per hour.
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Rapha Rising Wednesday Mega-ride
I'm working on a longer post with details from yesterday's ride … but here is a quick summary:
- Wake up at 3:45AM to begin riding by 4AM … a little slow getting going and out the door by 4:10AM
- Do laps in my neighborhood for about an hour before it is light enough to head out on the open road
- South Cove laps – hit 60.5 mph on deserted descent
- Head over to Vestavia to do Skyland Repeats but chased by dog and decide to climb up Shades Crest instead
- Refuel and say hi to the family at 7:30AM with over 9,000 feet of climbing already done
- Green Valley / Bluff Park as thunderstorms build to the east … watch them head south towards Alabaster … pics later
- Notice a thunderstorm building over Birmingham, Homewood heading my way … no way to avoid … stuck in it for 10 miles on the way home … lightning everywhere … flash/crack, flash/crack
- Wait out the thunderstorm and have lunch
- Head back out in the rain towards Mountain Brook/Irondale
- Karl Daly climbs and KOM effort
- Pulled over by Irondale police officer for running a red light (in front of Sam's Club) and then riding wrong way against traffic. Whew … bad decision but thankfully no ticket
- Home for afternoon break / food (see video below)
- Back out for more Green Valley / Bluff Park / Vestavia climbing pushing all the way until an hour past sunset (no light but safe deserted roads)
- Dinner and then only 38 miles left to hit 250 miles
- Laps in Countrywood and Dolly Ridge … Kristine rigged my helmet up with a light duct-taped to the front and back … saw drunk driver on Dolly Ridge … all the way in my lane on the wrong side of the road heading very fast … safely avoided by riding into the ditch
- Home for laps around the neighborhood with Kristine cheering me on … see pic below … rode until 11:59pm which happened to occur the final time up the hill in front of my house
Almost done – hot laps around the neighborhood all the way until 11:59PM. This one was taken at 11:48.
Rapha Rising Climbing Competition – Days 1, 2, 3
Analise and Josiah – gymnastics in the front yard
My favorite mountain goats – at the top of the Vesclub descent
The Rapha Rising climbing competition started on Sunday, and today I had a fun ride per the pics and Garmin screenshots below. I started out with lots of laps in the neighborhood to start out the ride while Kristine was at work and the kids were playing in the front yard. Then when Kristine got home I rode over to Brick Alley carrying my race wheel with a broken spoke – but they were closed so I had to ride back carrying the wheel – about 7 miles of climbing hand-carrying an extra wheel. Then I did some Skyland Repeats in Vestavia and RTB loops in Mountain Brook and snapped a few photos along the way.
Signal Mountain – another Alabama Cat 2 climb
Well, today's mountain bike ride definitely fit the bill for a "cycling adventure". Highlights included riding in and behind a thunderstorm, riding through a pilgrimage of devout Catholics, stumbling upon a small forest fire, discovering another Strava Cat 2 climb for Alabama, lots of mud, lots of flying ants, and lots of yellow jackets. Here are annotated topocreator maps of my route.
Annotated topocreator map of the entire 280 corridor (click to enlarge – 3.5MB)
Ridges stacked on top of each other — approximately what the view from Vestavia Dr on Shades Mountain would be with enough visibility and clearance (click to enlarge)
We had some thunderstorms roll through Birmingham this morning, so it was lots of rain on the long ride out to Double Oak and eventually over to Signal Mountain. Most of the thunder/lightning activity stayed just to the east of my location, but it was still disconcerting to be on the edge of a thunderstorm while climbing over the highest ridges in the area. Apparently, lightning from the storm had struck the top of Signal Mountain as I would later discover a small forest fire near the top.
Forest fire near the top of Signal Mountain – lots of smoke under the pine straw.
Before climbing Signal Mountain, I had to first climb up and over the Double Oak ridges taking me down into Bear Creek Valley. As I rode north on Co Rd 43 through Bear Creek, I noticed hundreds of cars parked alongside the road. This was really unusual, but it got even stranger as I started reading the license plates which were from all over the country. I eventually made it through the cars to this field and found out by asking someone walking back that some devout catholics believe Mary appears in this field every year near the Fourth of July.
Devout Catholics gathered in a field where they believe Mary appears every year sometime around the 4th of July (click to enlarge)
Continuing on Co Rd 43, I eventually made it to this barn which used to have a cool concrete statue of cyclists resting on the ground with their bikes propped up behind them, and turned onto the street/driveway (Moss Rock Trail) that leads straight down to Bear Creek itself and the low point for the start of the Cat 2 climb up Signal Mountain. I turned around at the bridge and began the climb by heading back out to Co Rd 43 and turning left to go back all the way through the pilgrimage area until I reached Season Rd, which is the start of the steep part of the climb.
Cars near the field where some devout Catholics believe Mary appears every year near the 4th of July (click to enlarge)
View of Signal Mountain (click to enlarge)
I'm pretty sure this will be the only time I ever do the climb. It is a good climb through a beautiful area, but the majority of it is on private hunting grounds (hence the name "Season Rd"). I reckoned that on a rainy Monday morning in the middle of summer everything should be deserted, which it was. But this is property that should generally be avoided. At the top of the climb is a single radio tower, which is ironic given that the name of the mountain is Signal Mountain.
The climb starts out steady and steep for the first mile before leveling out when you cross over from the back side of the ridge to the front side of the ridge. The view along the front side of the ridge is absolutely amazing – overlooking the valley over 1000 ft below and the adjacent ridge of Double Oak at nearly 1000 ft above the valley floor as well. After about a half mile, the climb bends around the side of the mountain again and really kicks up in elevation. It was just past this bend where I saw the forest fire. Also, I had to run the last bit because I got off-balance in the wrong gear, and it was too steep to remount – but theoretically the entire climb is rideable without stopping.
3D annotated view of double oak and the new signal mtn cat 2 climb (click to enlarge)
3D annotated view of all the ridges between the Cahaba River and Signal Mountain (click to enlarge)
After I made it down the mountain, I rode back to the pilgrimage area and reported the fire to a Shelby County police officer who was helping with crowd control. He thanked me and called it in on his radio. Then it was time for me to head back up and over Double Oak ridge … the mountain was swarming with yellow jackets and flying ants. Because of the earlier rain, I had to run several sections and with every footfall there would be a yellow jacket rooting around in the rocks and mud. I was super careful, but it wasn't until I was actually riding on a slight downhill at about 15mph when a yellow jacket, bee, or wasp came from in front of me and collided directly with my head. The sting was immediate – I couldn't tell a difference between the "thud" of the bee hitting me and its sting. One day later as I finish off this post, the entire righthand side of my face is swollen along with both sides of my neck.
To view the ride interactively on Strava, click this link: http://app.strava.com/rides/12387038
Finally, here are all the pics that I took during the ride:
Out west – day 8 – Mount Lemmon
Today was another highlight day as I had the opportunity to drive down to Tucson and climb Mt Lemmon. I knew that I had no shot at getting the KOM on the short version of the climb after riding 104.5 miles yesterday and setting a new 25 minute power record taking the South Mountain KOM along the way. So I used Strava's Explore feature to find a longer version of the climb that went all the way to the very top of the mountain. I figured that I had a shot at it if I just stayed steady at about 250 watts – well below my threshold power.
I felt surprisingly good at the bottom, though, and managed to average 273 watts for the first 7 miles of the climb before the average started to drop – particularly into a headwind 2 mile section of the climb towards windy point. It was dropping about a watt every mile as I struggled to maintain 250 watts. Then somewhere between milepost 15 and 16 up a steady part of the climb, I was looking at my wattage and it was down to 97 watts. I knew that I was still pushing about the same effort, but I also knew I was starting to struggle so I pushed much harder to try to get it back up to 250 watts. But the highest I could get it to was something like 175 watts. Then I realized that something must be wrong with my power meter. I'm hoping it is just a dead battery. This was very demotivating for me as I was relying a lot on the power average to push myself to keep that average higher – but the average started dropping quite rapidly with my current power output hovering around 100 watts eventually dropping to zero watts. So for the last 1200 feet of the first section of the climb and for the entire last section up Ski Valley to the high point, I just kept the elevation screen on and watched the dot get closer to the high point. I tried to use PRE to put out the same power, but I'm sure I had dropped below 250 watts by this time. It was enough, though, as I was able to set three KOMs on the climb – the full monte, and two shorter climbs at the end.
I was not in good shape by the top. I started late in the day (9:48AM) for this ride and had 18 miles of a gradual climb to reach the Catalina Highway where the official climb starts. I had two full bottles and a quarter of another bottle at the bottom – but I was completely out by the top. I did the last steep bit from the Irondoor Restaurant to the top with nothing to drink. Thankfully it was kinda cold at the top with temps in the upper 60s / lower 70s by the top and a steady wind blowing. Cold and very thirsty I asked one person to take my picture and then immediately headed back to the Irondoor Restaurant to refill water and get something to eat. I had only brought $10 with me so all I could afford was coke ($3) and cornbread/honey ($4.50). It was all I needed though as I drank several glasses of coke and doused the cornbread with nearly half a bottle of honey.
Irondoor Restaurant, an oasis in the sky
Cornbread with nearly half bottle of honey already gone
I stopped a couple times on the descent to get pictures, but by this point I really wanted to be done riding. I tried to push the pace on the descent but struggled to maintain 30mph on the flatter section and 40mph on the steeper sections. My max speed was 46mph – a little disappointing considering I regularly hit 50+mph on the steep descents in Birmingham. I kept the temperature screen open on my garmin and watched it rise through the 80s all the way to 101.2 by the start of the bikepath along the Rillito River. Fortunately, there was at least a little bit of shade on the bikepath and the temp on my Garmin dropped down to 98 by the end.
Here is a gallery of all the pictures I took … two of them were on the way up the climb while riding and trying to push 250 watts (the cactus picture towards the bottom of the climb and the rock outcropping next to the road)
Out west – days 4, 5, 6, 7
Thursday, Day 4 – sunset adventure with Josiah
After a fun hobo dinner over the campfire, Josiah and I set out on a sunset adventure. We took the new trail I found to the Bright Angel lodge and then connected with Hermit Rd, which is open only to shuttles and cyclists. I pushed Josiah up the big opening hill before we took a gatorade break at the first overlook point. Then we continued on eventually making it to Maricopa point, which is closed to cyclists. BUT, as we started walking our bikes along the trail, we realized there was nobody there! So we hopped back on and rode the paved trail all the way out to the lookout point where we got the picture and video below:
Josiah showing the view looking west … note we were able to ride to the edge of the canyon because Maricopa was empty!
Friday, Day 5 – worst ride ever – Grand Canyon to Flagstaff
The views were great, but there was a lot of traffic, and the wind was horrendous. 20+mph steady headwind with gusts up to 50mph. Once I finally made it to Valle, I was hoping for a cross-tailwind, but instead it was just a nasty knock your front wheel sideways crosswind. As the road climbed gradually towards the San Francisco peaks, the wind got increasingly worse. Eventually, going across the Kendrick Park meadow, the wind was sustained at 30-40mph with gusts probably in the 60mph range. It is easily the worst wind I have ever ridden in. The only redeeming part of the ride is that after about a mile or two of descending from the high pt of 8046′, the road had bent enough to give me a tailwind. So I had a fast downhill with tailwind to end the ride. I made it to the Snowbowl climb turnoff ahead of Kristine, so after waiting a few minutes I headed up the climb even though I was tired and out of food. Shortly after starting the climb, Kristine drove up so I gladly called it a day – I had had enough of the wind. The views were great – see these pics from Hermit Rd in the grand canyon and much later in the ride approaching the San Francisco peaks.
View looking west from Hopi Pt at the start of my ride
The San Francisco peaks outside of flagstaff
Saturday, Day 6 – exploring Mummy Mountain and Camelback Mountain in Phoenix
We drove down to Phoenix later in the day on Friday arriving while everyone was at the rehearsal dinner for the wedding. The next morning Josiah and I went for an hour long ride exploring the very cool canal trail and tunnels while Kristine did a 5K running race with her cousin, Kimberly. When they got back, my uncle Jim helped guide me through the canal tunnel system over towards Camelback Mountain and Mummy Mountain where I tried to find every way possible to get high up on the mountains. There were many mansions built into the side of the hill with super long, steep driveways but they were all gated-off private property. Still, the roads leading to the driveway were really fun with several steep sections.
Approaching Camelback Mountain from the west – praying monk on the left
Approaching the "castle" climb on Camelback Mountain
Sunday, Day 7 – South Mountain KOM and North Mountain KOM attempt – 104.5 miles
The ride down Central Ave to South Mountain was relatively easy with a bike lane for most of the way. The route when straight through downtown Phoenix, which was deserted on a Sunday morning. Most of the lights could be timed so that I think I only had to wait at one or two lights. This road takes you directly into the climb. The Strava segment that I had looked at was the one that started at the restrooms so when I passed a parking area that looked like it had restrooms, I drilled it. I was trying to maintain 350 watt average, but after about 5 minutes of this, my average started to slowly come down until I ended up with a time of 24'27" and a 324 watt average. I saw a sign at the entrance that said "Silent Sunday, no motor vehicles" which probably explains why there were hundreds of other cyclists climbing the mountain. It was motivating for me to always have people up ahead to chase. On the way back down, I explored all the side roads and lookouts enjoying the amazing views.
Right to left – Camelback Mountain, Mummy Mountain, Squaw Peak, North Mountain, Thunderbird, Deem Hills
View of the summit climb on South Mountain from the San Juan side road
Later in the afternoon I headed out to meet Uncle Bruce at the Deem Hills park to go mountain biking. Along the way I climbed North Mountain to see if I could set the KOM on it the same day that I set one on South Mountain. Unfortunately, the climb was far too steep and technical and it was all I could do to make it to the top without putting my foot down – ended up third on the KOM. To give you an idea of how steep part of the climb was – there was one stretch of the descent where I was leaned all the way back off the back of the saddle because I felt like I was going to tip over the handlebars if I hit the brakes too hard or hit a rock. Here are a couple pics of North Mountain:
Approaching North Mountain from 7th Avenue
View from the top of North Mountain looking south towards Phoenix with South Mountain in the distance
I continued on up towards Deem Hills and met Uncle Bruce for some awesome desert singletrack riding. We started out by climbing from the parking lot up to the top of one of the northern peak. The climb was pretty steep in parts – particularly in the tight switchbacks. I was able to ride a couple of the switchbacks but had to walk one or two of the others. The trails were rocky in spots, but not overly technical. You could have fun on both the climb and the downhill. Perhaps the thing that stood out the most, though, was all the different kinds of cactus and cholla with the trails clearly visible on the sides of the hills. After we finished riding, Bruce directed me on a much better route that involved a small climb up Thunderbird canyon followed by some very cool canal trails all the way back to 7th avenue.
Desert singletrack in Deem Hills
Deem Hills north climb, part i
Deem Hills north climb, part ii
The final switchback on the way up the north climb
Finally, here is a gallery of some other pics that I took while riding. They are mostly in chronological order with pictures from the sunset with Josiah first and my rides yesterday last – except for some reason the mountain bike pictures in the afternoon are before the road ride pics from the morning.
Strava Climbing Challenge Wrap-up
March 15th – April 30th – 96 rides, 3084 miles and 468,661 feet of climbing – the Strava Specialized Climbing Challenge is done.
Last year I climbed a lot because I really like climbing (and descending). This year in this climbing competition, I was driven by a desire to win so I climbed more and rode much more than I have ever ridden before. Jeremy Philippe still has a chance to win if he has any more rides that he hasn't uploaded yet, and if he does win then he deserves it because all of his climbing was on real mountain climbs in the French Alpes. Earlier in the competition, it was a race to see who could get to the prescribed climbing total 105,312feet first, and Robin Squire in England came out on top there reaching the total in an amazing 9 days. My climbing has been on the short, steep (sometimes super steep) climbs in the southern suburbs of Birmingham. Almost all of my climbing has been on three different ridge lines with hundreds of different roads criss-crossing through neighborhoods on the sides of the hills – see maps below showing only the 96 rides that counted towards the climbing challenge.
Birmingham climbing – routes overlaid on top of each other – darker blue means more times ridden – click to enlarge
Birmingham zoomed out with double oak way ridge line (click to enlarge)
Climbing challenge – rides in three states
The nice side effect of all this riding and climbing is that my racing has gotten even better as well. I assumed that there would be a trade-off as I bumped up the volume, my high end intensity would tank. But this didn't happen – instead, I tied an all-time max heartrate at the end of a 422 mile week racing the Mississippi Gran Prix. Then the next week, I finished 26th in a really tough Sunny King criterium with some of the best criterium pros in the country near the end of a 475 mile week. Then towards the end of 510 mile week on the 75th mile of the day I finished in the top 20 (20th) of the Athens Terrapin Twilight criterium. I think there really is something to a term that a friend of mine coined – terrain based training (thanks Warren!) The secret is one word – recovery. Terrain forces you to go easy. If your legs are shredded from racing, then when you climb a hill you have to go so slow that it gives your legs a chance to recover. Whereas if you are on flatter terrain with smaller hills, then you might be tempted to punch it up a hill or maintain a fast speed if it is flat. If you are climbing a 15% grade, then it is easy to go 3-5mph and weave up the entire climb, and there is no mental pressure to go even the slightest bit faster. Plus you have a downhill coming up soon where you can coast, soft pedal, or tuck-and-fly instead of having to keep on pedaling on a long mountain descent or on flat roads. I'm going to write up some more about my training strategies in another post.
For now, here are some highlights/timeline from the final day of the challenge:
- 7:30AM – walk the kids to school
- 8:15AM – first ride – commute to samford with mind-numbing 25 repeats of skyland dr – 40+mph to 5mph each repeat
- 9:20AM – teach languages and theory course at samford
- 10:30AM – help student with senior project
- 11:30AM – second ride – run into Mark Fisher (almost literally) while doing more repeats on skyland – ride together doing some of my favorite climbs/descents in vestavia
- 2:50PM – finish second ride and pick up kids from school (literally – see photo below)
- 3:15PM – third ride – combine mountain brook climbing route with hoover – bluff park climbing route – new max speed coming back down from bluff park
- 6:45PM – finish third ride, shower, and go on date with kristine while grandparents babysit the kids – firebirds for dinner, world market, barnes and noble coffee, awesome
- 9:30PM – upload data – see that Jeremy hasn't uploaded any more rides – start to get paranoid
- 10:45PM – fourth ride – laps in the dark, tired but full of adrenaline, hammer out 30 laps
- 11:50PM – upload last ride and screenshots, for some reason i really wanted to get all my data uploaded before midnight
Kristine got a video of Analise and Josiah running with me up the hill to our house on what I thought was going to be my last ride of the day. See video below:
Riding with Josiah after school at the end of my second ride of the day.
Between my third and fourth rides, Kristine and I had an awesome date night.
Climbing analysis
Today was a really hard ride … no racing this weekend (sadly) since the Barbers race was cancelled this year. So I did a bit of race simulation by picking out the longest climb in the Birmingham area (Pumphouse – Vestavia Dr) and trying to take back the KOM on it. I also picked out two other climbs to hit hard – one before the Pumphouse climb and one after it. The Vestavia Falls to Vestavia Lake overlook climb came shortly after the Pumphouse climb. I had gone hard enough on the Pumphouse Climb to be hyperventilating across the top down to chester and then nearly fall over climbing up chester so I had only barely pulled it together by the time I hit the Vestavia Falls climb. By the top of this third KOM effort for the day, I had so little upper body strength left from pulling on the bars that I felt something was wrong with my wheels/tires because any bump or small gust of wind would knock me a little sideways. I realized later that it was because I had nothing left in the muscles to compensate for the normal riding conditions. Thankfully this only lasted a short ways back down the descent. Still, I was somewhat shell-shocked from the back-to-back efforts, and it wasn't until I had made it over closer to Bluff Park that I was starting to feel normal again. The rest of the ride was at a much harder than normal tempo to try to minimize total ride time given that today is my wife's birthday, and we were heading out to the cheesecake factory for a late birthday lunch.
Here are the iBike stats on the KOMs I set today (in order) -
---------Caldwell Mill to Abingdon Abandoned House --------- Dist: 0.78 mi (0:03:33) Energy: 78.9 kJ Cals Burn: 75.4 kcal Climbing: 288 ft (Strava cat 4) Braking: 0.0 kJ (0.0%) Min Avg Max Power 204 370.5 562 W Aero 0 39.2 191 W Rolling 10 17.1 28 W Gravity -2 298.7 520 W Speed 7.9 13.2 21.5 mi/h Wind 0.0 8.4 22.2 mi/h Elev 291 433 560 ft Slope -0.0 6.79 15.6 % Caden 55 73.7 92 rpm HR 106 161.2 173 bpm NP:371W IF:1.34 TSS:11 VI:1.00 CdA: 0.342 m^2; Crr: 0.0039 168 lbs; 4/7/2012 11:05 AM 71 degF; 1013 mbar
---------Pumphouse - Vestavia Dr --------- Dist: 4.85 mi (0:16:22) Energy: 335.2 kJ Cals Burn: 320.4 kcal Climbing: 864 ft (Strava cat 3) Braking: -15.5 kJ (-4.6%) Min Avg Max Power 0 341.3 678 W Aero 0 127.6 900 W Rolling 0 23.0 43 W Gravity -971 163.4 667 W Speed 0.0 17.8 33.2 mi/h Wind 0.0 16.3 41.1 mi/h Elev 157 468 853 ft Slope -8.8 2.75 14.8 % Caden 16 77.9 107 rpm HR 126 171.6 193 bpm NP:363W IF:1.31 TSS:47 VI:1.06 CdA: 0.342 m^2; Crr: 0.0039 168 lbs; 4/7/2012 11:32 AM 75 degF; 1013 mbar
---------Vestavia Fall to Vestavia Lake overlook --------- Dist: 0.75 mi (0:03:17) Energy: 73.2 kJ Cals Burn: 70.0 kcal Climbing: 274 ft (Strava cat 4) Braking: 0.0 kJ (0.0%) Min Avg Max Power 0 371.6 675 W Aero 0 35.8 321 W Rolling 12 17.7 32 W Gravity -89 317.4 693 W Speed 9.3 13.7 24.4 mi/h Wind 0.0 10.6 27.2 mi/h Elev 416 562 684 ft Slope -2.5 6.96 14.8 % Caden 8 70.6 95 rpm HR 122 170.1 180 bpm NP:392W IF:1.41 TSS:11 VI:1.05 CdA: 0.342 m^2; Crr: 0.0039 168 lbs; 4/7/2012 12:07 PM 76 degF; 1013 mbar
The pumphouse climb is the longest climb in the immediate Birmingham area (that I know of). It is just over 4.5 miles long with nearly 750ft of vertical diff from the low point near the Cahaba River to the highest point on the Shades Mountain ridge on Vestavia Dr. There are also two stop lights, three stop signs, and three downhills on the climb so the total elevation gain is well over 850ft. What was really interesting today is that there was a steady, firm breeze blowing from the west and yet I had a tailwind on most of the pumphouse climb which should have been straight into the headwind. The deep valleys in Birmingham sometimes get colder in the mornings than the top of the ridge lines. Then during mid to late morning and even early afternoon, you get an updraft on the hills as the air warms in the valleys and rises. Note in the iBike screenshot below zoomed into the pumphouse climb that there is a headwind on the flats and downhills and a tailwind on the uphills. This wasn't just erroneous wind readings on the ibike, it was really obvious when you were hitting the headwind and when you had the tailwind.
pumphouse climb annotated map with wind direction
ibike graph for pumphouse climb – annotated
ibike data for the complete ride (click to enlarge)
Finally, here is a fun easter picture I got of the kids right after I got back from my ride … happy easter everyone!
THREE easter bunnies
And here annotated garmin screenshots from the ride: