Rachel Kaul isn’t sure exactly what drew her father to cycling.
Sometimes the most obvious reality can be the hardest to see in all its detail, and Don Kaul and biking were like fish and water — one almost couldn’t function without the other.
He loved the physical aspect of riding; the air filling his lungs and his heart pumping. Biking made him feel more alive, he wrote. He enjoyed getting away by bicycle, too, bonding with his closest friends atop two wheels.
And, Rachel thinks, he was attracted to the focus that biking required, especially biking through Washington, D.C. Kaul, the Register's star columnist, wrote five or six pieces a week.