bikejournal.com Premier Club

That was that fellow who left the forum because he was flamed so badly about revealing race results before the OLN broadcast? I was really surprised that things got that "woofy" on BJ - I've been so impressed with how kind the guys are most of the time (not the case on other boy-dominated forums). Sometimes I wonder if Slantz envisioned how big and appreciated his little site would become or all this has kind of grown like topsy and surprised him!

I'm also so very impressed with what TE is providing us with here - it takes alot of attention and investment to have a forum like this. The administrators (Susan, Jeff, anyone else?) have a wonderfully light touch and yet you always know they are interested in what is going on and somehow keeping all the participants "safe." It's a terrific service to the women's athletic community! Now I should shut up and buy something, right? ;)

I finally got the see the Jobob Temple pix - although I guess in my mind Jobob and her bike were In the temple - on a pedestal!....so I'm just gonna pretend that's what I saw!!!

and yeah Nut - I think most of the good members convince Trekman not to leave but I guess it got really ugly. Bad enough that Slantz delete the whole thread! :o

As for "our" forum (did ya like the possessive there?!), I agree with Nut: Hats Off to our wonderful moderators! Although I gotta wonder sometimes what Jeff's face looks like as he reads some of these thread - like knees and boobs? LOLOL

or will be once the updates take place!


(i couldn't take corsair's nagging anymore :D )


no.... really! it was/is a pleasure to pitch in.

Yay, Spazz!! :D

Woooohooo Spazz!! you ROCK!!!...and the yellow jersey sure looks nice on ya hun!!

SadieKate (aka stat queen!) where are we now on our polka-dot jersey?? :D

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Woooohooo Spazz!! you ROCK!!!...and the yellow jersey sure looks nice on ya hun!!

SadieKate (aka stat queen!) where are we now on our polka-dot jersey?? :D

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We're just over the threshold at 51.6% (16 of 31 members). So, we're there :D but teetering.

Nice to see the number of members growing.

wooohooooooooooooooo - we may be holding on to it by a thread - but we got our Polka-Dot Jersey!........if you click on your ID you'll see that pretty lil jersey right by the Team name!! It's also right there next to my team name on the threads I'm posting to over there!

Way To Go Ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D

All right already- now a Premier Member! Since we have so many newbies joining on a daily basis, maybe we should set up some kind of message on the club site at BJ so new members can become premier members right away!

What do you think, NUTHATCH, our Fearless Leader? :cool: :cool:

Someday, when it stops raining (yep, again today... all day) I'll start racking up some more miles "for the team".

But by golly I've got that yellow jersey (the only one I'm to ever have :D )

spazz

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All right already- now a Premier Member! Since we have so many newbies joining on a daily basis, maybe we should set up some kind of message on the club site at BJ so new members can become premier members right away!

What do you think, NUTHATCH, our Fearless Leader? :cool: :cool:

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Great suggestion, BG! I'm on it! And, BTW, anybody who has Club News or announcements, like real rides they are participating in, you are welcome to PM them to me and I'll get them up on the Club News area.

SadieKate, I'm going to borrow some of your text from the original posting in this thread for our Club area invitation to become premier, if that's okay....

Holy, Moley, we have 32 members over on BJ!!!

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Originally Posted by spazzdog

Someday, when it stops raining (yep, again today... all day) I'll start racking up some more miles "for the team".

But by golly I've got that yellow jersey (the only one I'm to ever have :D )

spazz

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and may I say it looks Gorgeous on ya hun!.......yellow is Definitely Your colour!! ;)

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All right already- now a Premier Member!

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and a yellow jersey on a Bike Goddess is Very fitting if I may say!!

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SadieKate, I'm going to borrow some of your text from the original posting in this thread for our Club area invitation to become premier, if that's okay....

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Of course! Most of it was copied from Slantz' stuff anyway. He works so hard to make everyone happy and we're using the site so much that I think we should support him. Kind of like being an IMBA member.

Just a reminder to all of us who are particpating in organized invitationals, crits, charity rides, etc. - we all have the ability to add those rides to the general ride announcements on BJ and list ourselves as particpants. It might be nice to have the rides listed on our team page as well so we can all see what is out there that we might consider participating in. It's especially helpful for new riders who don't know what's available.

I just logged Bubba's evening ride to BJ and there he was! Jason in the lead at the last mtb race!

http://www.bikejournal.com/home.asp

I got myself a yellow jersey on bikejournal.com and it feels so nice!!! Got it the same day I bought membership...Wow Slantz is speedy! I was expecting a full day go by before I would see it and that would have been ok.

Got to go for a ride...

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I just logged Bubba's evening ride to BJ and there he was! Jason in the lead at the last mtb race!

http://www.bikejournal.com/home.asp

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Why, SadieKate, he's a hunka burnin' bicycle love! ;) Totally cool!!!

Thanks for joining up, AutumnBreez!!!

We'd like to get a race schedule for the boy. Thom likes to do event photography and it's always more interesting when you know the participants.

V.

I know he is racing the crit in Rancho Cordova this Sunday: http://riostradaracing.org/images/Ri...207%202005.pdf
She's cheerleading so she can't ride Slug Gulch.

He also races the Prairie City Mtb Series every Wed night in Folsom.
http://www.racemtbikes.com/default.htm

You'll notice the names of John and Linda Elgart on a lot of this stuff. They are the Voler reps I'm working with.

Jason also mentioned racing the July 4 Davis Crit. Don't know if that's a definite. Perhaps Petunia can enlighten us more.

i wish bj would let you add all your miles to two separate clubs :( :( :( but i had already joined another club.. but they aren't a premier club :mad: that should be a good enough excuse to drop them eh? lol!

i really like bikejournal! both hubby and i are premier members... i think it's definitely worth $10.00 a year!

I noticed that my Biker Honey was STILL the picture of the day on Bike Journal! Back off ladies, he's taken :D !

Veronica - I'll send you a list of Jason's races. It would be great if you and Thom could come watch. Maybe we could even get SadieKate to come and lead a couple of cheers!

But, of course! I saved AG's yellow pom-poms.

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i wish bj would let you add all your miles to two separate clubs :( :( :( but i had already joined another club.. but they aren't a premier club :mad: that should be a good enough excuse to drop them eh? lol!

i really like bikejournal! both hubby and i are premier members... i think it's definitely worth $10.00 a year!

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you could split the miles maybe? or better yet - tell them you're going to join that OTHER club if they don't become a premier club!! :p

We've got so many new members, I thought I'd bump this thread to the top. For any of you interested in keeping track of your rides, there's a great, free site out there called BikeJournal.com. It lets you track just about anything and everything you'd ever want to track on a ride and we've got a team going over there: Team Estrogen. Gives everyone a chance to see what everyone Else is doing.........or you can keep your miles private if you so choose. We'd love to see ya'll so come on down!!! ;)

And a postscript to that message, Corsair. I've been thinking of encouraging all our Club TE members to take the time to post the rides they are going to participate in so we can all follow each other's efforts. You can do that by going to the "RIDE" pull-down menu at the top navigation bar on the club home page at the BikeJournal website. If you have a favorite route in a PDF format, you can share it with us by posting it under the "MAPS" pull-down menu. A bit of trouble but sooo helpful to your fellow riders in your area!

P.S. Corsair, think we can catch up with Audio-A and Bike Goddess this summer?

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P.S. Corsair, think we can catch up with Audio-A and Bike Goddess this summer?

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heckie dern there cap'n, I'm doing everything I can just to stay ahead of YOU! ;)

*still thinking about how to ride all 3 bikes same time so I can triple my mileage*

I paid my 10 bucks tonite - I did notice there is a way to transfer miles on the club screen somewhere

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P.S. Corsair, think we can catch up with Audio-A and Bike Goddess this summer?

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Umm,... I hate to tell you ladies, but my plans are for a double imperial century weekend... don't know if I'll make it, since I've been off the bike since Monday (did 1.5 hours on the trainer - that's really not any fun, is it???) but now that I've said it outloud, I might really have to do this!

Going to pay my way on BJ!

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heckie dern there cap'n, I'm doing everything I can just to stay ahead of YOU!

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And a fine job you're doing of it, too! Go cat go!!!

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Umm,... I hate to tell you ladies, but my plans are for a double imperial century weekend

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Curses!!! Foiled again!! My weekend ride will be short and no ride at all next weekend so my "slip will be showing" on the mileage list pretty soon.

I just noticed that I posted the idea to register your rides earlier in this thread and then repeated myself - what a drag it is getting old... :o

P.S. Thanks for joining up, Techno! I think we discuss transfering club miles somewhere around here.

Techno: are you transferring miles from another club you belong to on BJ? or just wanting to add your miles to date?
If adding miles to date, just post as a journal entry your total miles and click the "bulk miles" tab. If transferring miles from another club....when you make Team Estrogen your primary club it will ask you if you want to transfer your miles!! and welcome to the team!

Audio-A....just coz you SAY you're gonna do it...doesn't mean you HAVE to do it! ;) I mean after all.....you HAVE free choice hun....you could just have a nice quiet day at home if you so choose and I for one would Never fault you for that!! (but if you do the imperial double....very good luck and my thoughts go with you!)

It doesn't look like I'm going to be MTB'ng tomorrow so I'm thinking of taking on another century. Ya know - to see if the extension to my route gets me my extra 4 miles and well ya know...other things!

Corsair "not the Least bit addicted to centuries now - I'm not, I'm Not" Mac

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It doesn't look like I'm going to be MTB'ng tomorrow so I'm thinking of taking on another century.

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Wow! I am humbled! I can not envision doing 100 miles of riding all at once!! the longest ride I've done yet was 75 kilometers!! and then I was sick after, so go figure. yeah, maybe now that we have that worked out I can start working towards it. so if I'm only supposed to add 10% from one big ride to the next, and I only do one big road ride a week, how many weeks will it take me to get to 100 miles if my last ride was 27 km?

any math wizards out there?

Namaste,
~T~

I added miles in 20-25 increments. My thought process was (in your case) I did 27 km so I KNOW I can do that....so I'll just add another 27 kms. If that works for you, you would be doing a metric century in 4 wks give or take.

and I gotta ask coz darn it Audio - now you've got me thinking: how far is an imperial century?


:( :( does anyone know of any Long Distance Riders Anonymous meetings in my area?

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And a postscript to that message, Corsair. I've been thinking of encouraging all our Club TE members to take the time to post the rides they are going to participate in so we can all follow each other's efforts.

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Thanks for mentioning this. I just added a ride on bike journal and saw another member from TE is already signed up. Maybe I'll see Technotart in Paris, TX in July.

Funny you should say that - we were just looking at the brochure a few minutes ago!! That will depend on my school schedule... :rolleyes:

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I added miles in 20-25 increments. My thought process was (in your case) I did 27 km so I KNOW I can do that....so I'll just add another 27 kms. If that works for you, you would be doing a metric century in 4 wks give or take.

and I gotta ask coz darn it Audio - now you've got me thinking: how far is an imperial century?


:( :( does anyone know of any Long Distance Riders Anonymous meetings in my area?

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Hello, My name is Leslie and I'm a bike-a-holic. (TE gang: Hello, Leslie!)...

I doubt I'll be going a century tomorrow. I rode today with another woman, and we started out way, way too fast, so even though we got our miles in (sorry C-Mac - I can't help myself!) I'm feeling it tonight. I'm gonna ride, but we'll see about the mileage.

An imperial century is 100 miles, a metric century is 62.6 miles, or 100 kilometers. So, a few weekends ago, I did an imperial century, followed by a metric. I've never done back-to-back 100 mile days. Maybe next weekend... Sorry, I can't help myself!

Oh - Early on, I think it's important to slowly build up miles, but I believe that after a time, that 10% rule can get stretched, quite a bit. I was regularly doing 40, slowly bumped up to 50, and then rather quickly went to 60, 64, 74, 80, and then started doing 100's. No ill effects to speak of, except for this pesky addiction.

Oh, so an imperial century is just a way of saying a century of miles rather than kilometers! I was thinking, hmm... were King George's miles longer than our colonial miles??? But I guess it would only be longer if you were riding nautical miles and then you'd be getting wet. :D

Work sure suts into cycling time, doesn't it? Or school - I dread the next semester starting Monday because it means a LOT less time to ride - I really want to be riding 100 miles every weekend and a couple 2 to 4 shorter rides during the week. It's gonna be hard!

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Oh, so an imperial century is just a way of saying a century of miles rather than kilometers! I was thinking, hmm... were King George's miles longer than our colonial miles??? But I guess it would only be longer if you were riding nautical miles and then you'd be getting wet. :D

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Hmmm, so what did I end up with? I rode 62.7 miles, but it poured on the last 15, so was it a nautical century or just a metric???

Aww, let's call it a nautical century and start a trend. Looks like Corsair got her imperial century in this weekend and I only got a, hmm, what would you call 40 miles sprinting away from a thundercloud and up big hills? Just mighty fun ridin' I guess! ;)

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hmm, what would you call 40 miles sprinting away from a thundercloud and up big hills? Just mighty fun ridin' I guess! ;)

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Sounds like a heck of a good time!

And... way to go C-Mac!

Yup, I got bit bad. I did another imperial century (that just sounds SOOO much more important than just a plain "century) yesterday. and then for grins and giggles, rode another 50 today. Unfortunately, I don't have 2 back-to-back 8 hour days to ride a double imperial. hmmmm....I might just have to take a day off work to try that. And I'm with Nut on this one------if you're riding in the rain, it should be counted as nautical miles! ;)
As for mine: it started out cold - 56 degrees! :eek: I didn't want to have to carry warmers with me since my rides are all self-supported and I have to carry everything so I left them home. By the time I stopped by my LBS (6.50 miles from home) I was freezing and feeling downright whiney and cranky about riding 100 miles. As I climbed back on the bike I had talked myself out of doin a century. Soo 100.56 miles and 7:08 hours later...I got home riding the last 40 miles or so in 21 mph headwinds with 28 mph gusts. (gotta love this city) Guess it was a good thing I'd talked myself outta riding that century yesterday huh?