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Caple: Wines and Goal Lines – Sublime Bay Area Weekend

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Oakland travel: Plan Trip | Hotels | Flights | City Guide San Francisco travel: Plan Trip | Hotels | Flights | City Guide The sun has baked me until I look like a cross between Sparky Anderson and Chief Wahoo. I can feel the lactic acid bubbling up in my body and my sweat mixing the sunscreen into my eyes. My heart is pounding, my lungs are gasping for oxygen and my PowerBar has melted into a gooey, inedible wad. And after miles of climbing, the grade of the road is now becoming so steep that ...

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