If the Terry folks are smart, they'll bring a bunch of the Gore rain shorts. I'd buy a pair, since I've been eyeing them in their catalog for over a year now.
Printable View
If the Terry folks are smart, they'll bring a bunch of the Gore rain shorts. I'd buy a pair, since I've been eyeing them in their catalog for over a year now.
You and me both!
I may hit the Goodwill tonight for a pair of rain pants to make into shorts....just in case.
I have rain pants, I just have a feeling I won't be too comfortable cycling in them. I guess i can open the side vents.
I have a large supply of Hefty bags and duct tape.
Well, at least it'll also be around 60o, so it'll be somewhat warm. I do remember a very large, multi-stall bathroom at the high school, but I don't recall whether it included showers.
Tomorrow's forecast says 30% chance of rain and 70F. That sounds pretty good to me.
So it's just KD, 7, and me kayaking tomorrow? Still want to meet at 11:30 at the Holiday Inn Express parking lot?
Which forecast are you looking at? NOAA is still saying 50% for thunderstorms and weather.com is saying 60%, so I definitely like yours better.
So. Do I feel like wrestling the kayak out to the car that early in the morning for a 50-ish % chance of not being able to use it? Hmmm.....
I looked at the hour-by-hour forecast at weather.com.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
Can't trust those NOAA forecasts! ;):rolleyes:
11:30 sounds great.
Google says it'll take 1:45 from your place to the HIEx, DB. What time do you want me to pick you up? 9-ish?
Sounds good.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
For 4:00a.m.?? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by divingbiker
We never did decide on a place for Saturday night's dinner...
No, I was looking at the afternoon. Apparently they've updated it because now it says 67F and 50% chance of rain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
So, are we not doing a TE dinner Saturday evening? Should one of us just choose a place and say "Be there or be square!"?
I think it would be fun to meet everyone for dinner, but I got a bit overwhelmed by the options. If you'd like to pick a place, that would be great. (Just please make sure there's something vegan, ok?:D)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
Plaza Tapatia in Cambridge at 6:00pm. Unless someone wants to chime in with another option before us kayaking die-hards hit the road tomorrow morning...
Sounds good to me. Especially a margarita or a beer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
Mmmmmm....Margariiiiiita!!!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by divingbiker
Water is vegan :)Quote:
Originally Posted by divingbiker
So are margaritas!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
I'm going to tempt fate and take the road bike, no fenders. Fingers crossed.
I just put street tires on the 3.
I'm sure to be speedy now :p
As it turned out, I could not make it today (and I even have the jersey!).
Next year before the WGC, I will avoid a particular Indian restaurant that is responsible for keeping me being on two legs instead of two wheels today.
So........I want to hear everything.......from kayaking.......to cycling.......to staying dry. TELL ALL!
Kayaking was wonderful. We paddled in a river - I don't recall the name - Divingbiker, Kalidurga, and me. Once we got away from the road (plentiful parking, boat ramp for easy launching), it got very quiet. Saw lots of ducks, osprey, a juvenile eagle or two, a great blue heron, and loads of jumping fish. And some small animal swimming just at and below the surface (a rat? a nutria? a snake? Dunno). The weather held...cloudy, some sun, no rain, and perfect temps.
Dinner at a Mexican place with cheap food and screaming children.
I did the metric with my friend Erica and her friend Kim. Erica was neurotic about leaving EARLY as the forecast called for steady rain after noon. Well, her push to get me out of the hotel earlier than planned (Thanks, KD, for bringing DB to the ride!) worked out well, because we rode primarily on dry roads with just light mist. It wasn't until the last five miles that we saw anything you could call "rain." We lucked out big time. I fell a little short of my goal, mainlly b/c the three of us talked for most of the ride: 63 miles at an average speed of 16.6. Saw lots and loads of stories to tell, but no pictures: I left my camera at the hotel, as I was worried about the rain.
I did hear someone talking about "the Team Estrogen website" at a rest stop (while I was waiting in line for the....um.....facilities). The woman was on a dark red Bianchi with a white fork. Becky?? Was that you? I wanted to yell out, but I didn't dare lose my place in line (it was sooo long!). :o
All in all, a great time for me. Loved the kayaking, loved the biking, and am already looking forward to our next Eastern Shore multi-sport adventure!!!
And many thanks, Janice, for letting me crash at the HIEx with you!
It was the Transquaking River, recommended by the nice folks at Blackwater Pedal and Paddle. Very peaceful.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
7Rider summarized the weekend well. It was fun. Kalidurga and I did the 43 mile ride at a much slower pace--13.6 mph average.
Sorry you couldn't join us, Ann.
After a good shrimp quesadilla and dos cervezas I swam at the hotel. In the dark. The lights worked fine, I just wanted to swim in the dark :)
I won a nice zip up lightweight jacket in pink:o and spent way too much money at the Terry tent.
I just wish the 25 mile course included more water but they had Nutella at the rest stop and that makes everything worthwhile :D
I missed the kayaking but met up at the Mexican place for dinner. Unfortunately it did not agree with me and I slept badly that night. Met up with Zen for breakfast and started out riding with DB and KD but the dampness made my achilles tendon tighten up and there was no way to keep up with them. I eventually met up with Diane (Zen's friend) and we rode the entire 43 miles together. But we had 10 miles of of rain.
The Blackwater area is sooo beautiful that we just have to plan an ad hoc outing on a nice sunny day. It would really be worth it.
IT was fun to see everyone again even if it did rain. At least the wind wasn't bad and I did not get cold until the last 5 miles or so.
I won a small camera case at the raffle which should fit my camera perfectly. The big camera cases in the goodie bags are nice, but ... kind of big. Don't really know what I'll do with it.
They also raffled off a full Gore outfit - jacket, jersey, shorts (rain shorts?) and maybe something else. The other 2 big prizes were a $500 gift cert to Terry catalog for clothing, and a gift cert for a weekend of biking in Vermont given by Vermont bikes. They used the numbers from our wristbands for those prizes so don't know who won - the winners were apparently not present to claim the prizes, and I guess Terry will be contacting the winners to arrange delivery.
Wow! It sounds as if the kayaking was wonderful & I loved your description of the animal in the water, 7.
I'm glad that the weather wasn't too much of a problem for the ride today. No one mentioned the wind, so hopefully, it was easier this year than last year.
Zen---Congrats on winning the jacket! Didn't you win a book not long ago? I want you with me when I purchase a lotto ticket.
DB: I thought about you yesterday at the restaurant that did me in because I think that a vegan could have chosen quite a few dishes. I only wonder whether the vegan dishes were as toxic as the nonvegan.
Thanks for sharing the stories & I'll see you all at the next WGC in my still, unworn jersey.
We had fun as well. My friend came up to my house on Saturday, and I started tweaking her mountain bike for her, raised her handlebars a bit, fixed the angle of her levers, changed the tires to some slicks I had, changed a brake cable and adjusted her rear brake...
Then I said, hey... why don't you try my surly?
She got on that, rode in circles in the grass & then out on the road and said... "OOOH this is wonderful! Can I ride this?"
I also managed to talk her into borrow my kayak instead of taking her sit on top.
So I was all psyched I talked her into speedier means of transportation!
We got in maybe about 6 on Saturday? Got into the B&B, and decided, okay, let's take a quick bike ride around town... went through downtown cambridge... started raining on us, and we ducked into snappers to have dinner. They let us put the bikes on the back deck. Can't say i was crazy about snappers, I saw the fried pickles you guys were talking about from last year.
I came back to our bikes after looking at the tent sale (I just grabbed a $10 pair of gloves and talked myself out of everything else) and there was a note from Zen on the surly! And she said that noone would remember whose bike was which!
We did the 25 mile ride, stopped in at the visitor's center & bought the water trails map - talked to the ranger guy for suggestions of what to do.
We were on the last maybe 5 mile stretch or so, and I ride past someone on a purple bike, and I'm thinking that's a pretty color and say, "oh I love your bike color" or something like that to the girl... go on a little bit and I hear "Hey, is your name Catriona?" Becky saw Julie on the surly, recognized it and called out... and then I felt like a retard 'cause Becky had posted pictures of her pretty purple bike and I had just noticed it and just not put 2 & 2 together. She did not have a coon skin cap on. I had completely told Julie to look out for a chocolate lab & a big guy with it though.
We grabbed lunch at a nice raw bar in town.. it was on race street, it was like jimmie & sooks raw bar or something. Got some really nice crab cakes, much better place than snappers.
Then we did a bit of the wildlife drive & put in... Kayaked for a bit, Julie wanted some drift wood, so she kept trying to yank pieces and had a little pile on the kayak by the end of the trip.
Pics are here if anyone wants to see lots of Julie and lots of grey skies, and this really cool stump that was sticking out of the water that looked like a dragon & i took a ton of pics of.
http://picasaweb.google.com/EyeofCat...ildGooseChase#
Regina and Janice pretty much summed up my weekend. Like Regina, I owe many thanks to Janice-- First for calling the paddling outfitter and getting the great recommendation to do the Transquaking (though we really should've kept it secret ;) ). Second, for being my pedaling buddy. If she hadn't ridden with me, the weather would've caused me to only do the 25 miler. I've now done my second-ever 40-plus mile ride :D
There was wind. It was mild, more of an intense breeze, but enough to make me cuss a little bit. Without it, Janice and I would've definitely had a higher average mph.
And, I tried Nutella for the first time. Damn those Terry people! The food stops, er, I mean rest stops were so much better this year. The pb&j and Nutella definitely got me through the ride (and possibly created a new addiction :o ).
Next year, I'd like to do this ride with some sunshine. That would be the only improvement I'd ask for.
Cat, your very cool photos reminded me: Janice let me use her camera when we were paddling since I had left mine at home. Have you uploaded the pics yet, Janice? Anything worth sharing?
What a great ride!
I did the first 20 miles or so on my own, because I was a little late getting out and missed the metric group. A train of women blew past me shortly before the rest stop, and I hopped on. We got to talking and I came to find out that they're from the same area of NJ that DH grew up in. I had fun riding with such a strong, friendly group, and averaged about 17 mph overall. I don't often get to ride with other women, so this was a real treat, and it inspired me to look for a regular club ride to join. Because I'm usually working Saturdays, I haven't done many club rides.
7- That may have been me, though the Bianchi has a chrome fork. I was telling my new friends from NJ how I'd first heard about this ride, and the cool women from the TE forums. I'm sorry that I missed joining up with you, Erica, and Kim, but I'm looking forward to another opportunity to ride together.
Catriona- it was great to meet you out on the road! I'm glad that I'd seen pictures of your Surly- I recognized it instantly. Once I put it and the Litespeed together, I was certain that was you! We'll have to make plans to ride again sometime soon.
What a great ride! I'm looking forward to doing it again next year, and hopefully getting to meet more TE women :)
A bike with red pedals, red tires and a very distinctive "Hello Kitty" bell is kinda hard to miss :p
Actually, for me, it was the flame stickers on the top tube that gave C's Surly away. I wouldn't have recognized it otherwise.
I shoulda put my spare flame sticker on the litespeed's top tube :)
That would look HOT!!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catriona
Oh....and I won a buff. None of the clothes were my size :rolleyes: so I didn't even try for those. I do like the fact that the altered the raffles and liked the new format (drop your tickets in the envelops for the items you might actually be interested in).
I think the bf would take the litespeed away if I desecrated naked titanium like that. And complain about how much the sticker weighed. I think I'm already the butt of all he & his bike friend's jokes for doing that to my surly :) (they're just in awe of its magnificence)Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
I gave my friend my raffle tickets to drop off thinking it was just something you dropped into a bin, while I took the swag back to the car.
Apparently, she really wants me to take up yoga, ;cause she put 3 of mine into the yoga mat... and 1 of hers. And since she won 2 buff headbands, I guess she put at least 2 into headbands. I think 1 went into a gore jacket. Apparently the jackets and gear were "not that nice" and didn't match my bikes.
I was just going... erm... You realize I can go to walmart & like spent $10 and get a yoga mat? And.... I don't have any intentions of doing yoga currently?
So... I think I'll remember next year not to let her have my raffle tickets.
She did give me a buff headband and put driftwood into my garden.
Saw this on the Terry forum and, since I just went through this heartache myself....and was able to get my glasses back because of a good soul...I thought I'd spread the word:
--------
I dropped my Oakley glasses with clear lenses at the rest stop located at the intersection of Greenbrier and Bucktown road (Blackwater Paddle?). I went back to retrieve them and was told by one of the volunteers that someone had found them and was planning to turn them in at the High School.
I checked and checked with the event coordinators and by 3 p.m. they had not been turned in at the high school to any of the ride coordinators.
Does anyone recall picking up a pair of Oakley glasses with clear lenses at this rest stop? If so, please contact me as soon as possible. My email is hawillis0602@yahoo.com and my phone number is 917-478-2825.
Thanks so much!
Heather
Here's what we've got. I wish the sky had been blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
A couple of Regina:
Attachment 9194
Attachment 9195
An interesting log:
Attachment 9196
Me taking a rest:
Attachment 9198
The shoreline:
Attachment 9199
it looks a lot closer to blue than it did in the pics that I took kayaking on Sunday :)
Vivid color mode on those little Canon cameras works wonders on grey days.
I've already fried a camera in salt water in the kayak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalidurga
So now, I have a waterproof pentax camera.
It probably has a vivid color mode, but in general if I took a picture of anything with color that day it popped in the photos... just everything was for the most part gray.