Who's in?
If you are interested in meeting with other TE'rs, send me a PM and we will see if we can get something arranged for Friday evening and/or Saturday morning.
I'm in for 100!
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Who's in?
If you are interested in meeting with other TE'rs, send me a PM and we will see if we can get something arranged for Friday evening and/or Saturday morning.
I'm in for 100!
I'm in too. Probably for the 80 though. My biking didn't go as planned this spring. :(
Two years ago, the TE'rs went to dinner Friday night at a pizza place near the Crystal Inn. It was yummy.
Sorry you aren't up for the 100 - There's always another ride! Do you remember the name of the pizza place? That sounds like a great plan.
I'm in - trying for the 100 but it won't be fast. Will probably check out the dinner event the night before.
I think this was it:
http://firehousepizzeria.com/
I'll be there. I'm staying with Shiraz & friends, can't remember where, in Logan on Fri night. I'm planning on riding the 100 (isn't it more like 107 or something?).
I'd love to meet up for dinner. I'll drag Shiraz along, cuz, well, you know that she's not social AT ALL! ;)
:D:D Hey sounds like its going to be fun! Yellow, Flybye and I plus several other ladies will be staying at the Best Western Weston Inn on Main street in the big suite room. Since I need to get back for the family wedding I need to get an early start on Saturday and can only do the 60. I'm going for the fun. Flybye and I riding the McCammon loop today at 1230. We chatted yesterday about meeting at the park Friday first. She said she would post something in the next couple of days.
:DI 'll be sure to work on my social skills before next weekend!!
After consulting with Shiraz (who will be my wheels for the ride to Utah) :D we have decided that we will meet in Bowery park at 6:00 on Friday
- You will be able to recognize us because Shiraz is beautiful and has poor social skills ;)
- I will be the one having an asthma attack :D. I had to bail on the ride that Shiraz and I took today because I felt like I was sucking air in through a straw. I am now experiencing the privilege of having a husband that is a pharmacist - he is researching which inhaler to ask the doctor for. Don't I feel lucky!
Anyhow, we will find a table and put a sign of some type that says TE or Team Estrogen on the center of the table. We are both very excited at the prospect of meeting other TE'rs.
Lifeisgreat, Bikedutchess, and Yellow - can't wait to see you all. Bikedutchess, will your daughter be riding with you this year?
I'm staying at the Best Western Weston with two friends. We are signed up for the 100. I'm not sure what time we will get to the park on Friday, but I will look for the TE table. I will be easy to spot. I'll be sporting several nasty bruises from today's rather spectacular mountain bike crash. :( (I might have to break out the spray tan stuff just to make sure I don't scare small children.)
Alex (who is shopping for new MTB tires cuz it can't be my bike handling, right?)
But will the free pasta be good? Me and Jo junior will be HUNGRY! That Firehouse place was great.
I'm bringing two galpals from Jackson. Kelsey will want to ride the metric at least, but I'm planning to be more mellow to keep my friend Cara company on her mtn bike. She thought the 36 would be all she could do, but I'm trying to talk her into 46.
We're going to drag the Airstream to a nearby campground, but it looks like I've waited a bit too long to get a rezzie at Hyrum Lake. Will call Monday.
Can't wait!
Got a postcard from the Little Red folks. An excerpt:
Friday, June 6th from 5-8 pm at Wellsville City Park: Packet and Jersey pick-up and Western Rendezvous dinner party. Free BBQ chicken, salad, ranch potatoes and three kinds of desserts are just the carbs and protein you'll need. Enjoy live music of Tangle Ridge, Utah's best western/bluegrass group! Food for the first 800 Little Red bikers in line. No RSVP needed.
I will plan on being at the park at 6 to meet TE friends and am still interested in the Firehouse food. The LRRH food sounds great, but with my food allergies, I don't know if it would be be the best thing for me to eat right before a ride.
I am at Crystal Inn. Also, do you think we need to make a reservation at the Firehouse place?
I'll be there!
I'm driving from Grand Junction, CO with 3 other gals on Friday. I'm not sure of the hotel we are staying at.
I signed up for the 100, but I'll probably only do the 50. I haven't ridden much lately. (I did get out for about 35 miles today.)
I'll be on a black Surly Pacer bike with a rack and black rack trunk.:p
I am especially concerned about not getting enough carbs, why ride, after all, if on cannot consume enough calories to put a huge ol' smile on the face? What Shiraz and I thought we'd do was eat the free stuff at the park and then either bring stuff to eat in the room or get something from a restaurant in town or both :eek:. Shiraz, I am sure, is not as concerned about food as I am, she is small as a bird!!
I can't wait to meet everyone.
Alex, you are right. You NEED new tires. Wrecks aren't EVER our fault unless their are witnesses who call the crash "a spectacular display of courage".:cool: You will be the envy of every woman. Maybe I'll try to get some road rash between now and then, too. How are you feeling?
Cylca - Isn't your airstream named "Stella" - Seinfield?? I am thinking that would be a great name for your baby.:p
Surly- Will you be at the park? Glad you have company to get you though the ugly part of Utah - everything in between Arches and Provo!
Life- It couldn't hurt to make a reservation. I am glad you'll be at the park. I am also glad you aren't eating - more food for me - hehehe!!
I'll be staggering around early Saturday morning looking for coffee and friendly faces.
You take carbo loading very seriously :p:p:p I have been carbo loading for the last 10 years and have the lbs. to show for it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybye
Seriously, do you want me to make a reservation? If so, how many and what time? The restaurant is about 15 minutes from the park.
Cycla-I have a 1979 Airstream Land Yacht. I LOVE IT! I won't be pulling it with my Honda CRV, though since it is 31 feet long. . .
I will be in a maroon CRV with the Utah plate HILSLUG.
Remember to bring money for yard sales :)
I'm staying in the Best Western Baugh on Friday. We have a gal's room (for me, my daughter, and my friend) and a guy's room (for my DH and my dad, who will be Big Bad Wolves in Wellsville on Saturday). My daughter will be riding again this year, but she's only doing 35 miles (her ballet has been so all-consuming this year that she just hasn't had much riding time). She has a couple of friends to ride with and then will be hanging out in Wellsville with her dad & opa until I stagger in.
Not sure about the dinner plans yet. I had originally thought to do the LRRH dinner. But standing in line with 800 women for food just does not sound that appealing (as great as all those women are!), plus I'll have to find something to include the guys too.
I'll be looking for you TE'rs either Fri eve or Sat morning!
I'm a cranky, crowd-averse middle-aged gal and wasn't planning on standing in line for dinner at the check in. Visiting casually, yes, standing in line with a bunch of anxious people, no.
So, I'll take a shot at this: Firehouse dinner attendees seem to be...
yellow
Lifesgreat
CyclaSutra + 2 friends
Others that seem to be tentative are...
Flybye
Shiraz
BikeDutchess
If you should be added to the attendance list, let us know. If the group seems to get large-ish, then we can make a reservation. How does that sound?
:D
P.S. I'm not really that cranky most of the time...
Here is a picture from a GREAT ride we did a couple of weeks ago.
So you'll know who to look for I have cropped Shiraz and I from the picture.
I am the one who is not vertically (ahem) challenged!!
Several of the women from this picture will be at LRRH but do not have TE user names.
Carbs, oh yes! Here is a quote from the book"Eat, pray and love" I am reading by Elizabeth Gilberts that is fitting :
No carb left behind! And that my friends is why I run and bike:p:p
I do prefer chocolate carbs over potatoe carbs!!
Thanks for posting the pics Flybye.
FB, I didn't exactly dig deep in the suitcase of courage today, but I did sort of rummage around in the change purse of this might hurt. Got on the road bike for a few hours and was pleasantly surprised to discover that I felt great (so long as the bruise by my inner knee doesn't come into contact with the top tube).Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybye
There were no witnesses to yesterday's crash. DH told me not to wait for him, so I was ahead of him on the trail by quite a big margin. Let's put it this way. I had time to crash, dust myself off, and still get to the car and wait awhile for him to appear. The LBS is closed today, but I plan to get some new, wider, and grippier tires tomorrow. My new mtb has narrowish cross-country racing tires that just can't seem to hang onto rocks in the turns. (I've fully embraced the theory of equipment failure!)
To make this LRRH-related, I will check with my friends about dinner plans, The pizza/pasta place sounds nice. Waiting in line with 800 others, not so much!
Alex
I'd love to do the Firehouse with my friends as long as we make it early enough (6?) so we can still enjoy sunset, campfire and s'mores at Stella, my Airstream. Funny story about how I named her...
After my 1967 Safari's third window blew out while en route to San Fran to vacay with my sister (after two compartment doors flew away, all within a year), I was so sick of crying over the trailer. I wanted a name that was period-appropriate but calming and not self-destructive (which is why Marilyn got nixed).
Yellow (the not-cranky, wonderful person from TE) came and picked me up at the Salt Lake KOA to spare me staying in the now-full-of-fresh-air trailer. We hung out in her hot tub and talked about serendipity and being open to suggestion. Sure enough, the next day in The Kura Door spa, a masseuse walked up and said, "Is either of you named Stella?" No ... but that's a good name!
I only found out a month later that the wife of Wally Byam, who founded Airstream, was named Stella. Ever since she got her name, she hasn't lost another piece.
Dining out is so much cheaper when you're off the sauce... I'll be sure to have some other carb calories to make up for it. I seem to remember they had an amazing alfredo dipping sauce for the bread sticks?
Quote:
Originally Posted by CyclaSutra
I guess that I figured that you named her Stella because of one of my most favorite scenes from Seinfeld....................
Click and watch, SO FUNNY!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfdpnsIy4E
Flybye, if I had ever seen A Streetcar Named Desire, it prolly would be funnier to me (hanging head in uncultured shame).
I've got a campsite (#10) for Fri-Sat at Guinivah/Malibu, five miles north of Logan in Logan Canyon if anyone wants to come over for s'mores after dinner! Can't wait. We'll be the ones with the shiny spaceship, license plate TRSH.
Hey there- it really sounds like most everyone wants to meet at the Firehouse, so Flybye and Shiraz and company will play along. We have officially changed plans again. 6:00 at the Firehouse. Can someone make reservations??Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow
CyclaSutra ; malkin ; Lifesgreat ; surlypacer ; yellow ; BikeDutchess ; Shiraz ; Alex - I sent all of you a pm with the changes. Did I forget anyone???
Oooh you double dipping diners are making me wonder why I didn't plan to go up for the night before!
Maybe next time I'll plan better...
Sadly I'm going to have to bow out of the TE dinner - and it sounds like so much fun, too. But I have to do the family thing to include the guys. Maybe I can join you ladies next year!
Uh, last time there was a man or two and children. They just sat far enough away so as to not be overcome with estrogen at dinner!
Mmmmm carbs!
Please add me and my two friends to the group assembling at the Firehouse. :D
Thanks!
Weather dot com is forecasting a high of 64 for Saturday. Sounds lovely!
Alex
Okie doke, here's the list for dinner at the Firehouse:
Lifesgreat
Shiraz
Flybye
Susan
Louise
Kathy
CyclaSutra + 2 friends
Yellow
Alex + 2 friends
Currently totaled at 13. I'll wait a day or so more and then make a reservation (just in case the Dutchess and her court want to join us)!
Friends!
Firehouse does not take reservations for Friday nights...so we either chance it or make plans to go somewhere else.
Also, I think we should make it 6:30. Since packet pickup starts at 5:00 and the whole process (getting your waiver, listening to the safety speech, and then picking up your schwag) takes about 0.5 hour, 6:00 might be pushing it to get from Wellsville to the pizza place. 6:30 would be more comfortable, I think.
I'm still up for the Firehouse. Just bear in mind that we might have to wait.
Y'all let me know if you think we need to move to "plan B".
(LAZB got a complete drive train cleaning today, complete with cluster, chain, and crank removal. Sooooo shiny! She's ready for Saturday!)
I've already picked up the packets for my crew, so we could go a bit early to the Firehouse and try to snag a table while the others are doing the packet pickup/don't ride wide briefing thang.
Let me know!
I thought the briefing was good and I swear I passed that group of women in the "don't ride this way" photo last year.
I am doing my very best to keep the rain away on Saturday. I went to REI tonight to buy a pair of rain pants. That should help ensure us a sunny day! ;)
Alex
I am still up for the Firehouse. I have to pick up my packet at the park and hoping to be there at 5 to do so. I think 6:30 would work better too. Yellow, you still have my cell phone number, right?
Si, chiquita. You are permanently in my cell phone. PM me if you need mine again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lifesgreat
6:30's fine... I wonder if Olive Garden would take reservations? Hmmm...
We are in with the 6:30 plan.
Yellow, I'll pm you with my cell phone number.
Alex, why don't you plan on getting us a table at the Firehouse?
Not going to be there, darn it -- put in my vote that they do it next year! Had to post, though. Wondering if Cyclesutra knows yet: alien boy child or alien girl child?
Karen in Boise
Hi all,
I previously posted on the Crazy Drivers thread about being hit by a car on 4/27. Still nursing injuries, including a mild concussion and grieving my destroyed bike too...soooooooooo, I'm totally bummed that I have to miss riding the LRRH century this year.
PUH-LEEZ ride safely, use common sense and courtesy out on the road and obey the traffic laws, so that I have any hope of getting the chance to ride it next year, willya??!
Every rider on the road reflects on all of us, so I'm counting on you!
Thanks and enjoy those tailwinds for me!
Mary
I was going to send you a pm today because you were on my mind. I am glad you took the time to put a message on this thread. I was wondering how you were doing. I wish we would have the opportunity to meet one another. I am glad that you are healing well. I will ride more safely this year, for sure. I hope that all the ladies ride safe so that this ride is around for years to come.Quote:
Originally Posted by MM_QFC!
Thanks for the tailwind wishes.
Got this in my email:
Dear Little Red rider,
You received this message because you are confirmed to ride with us this Saturday at Little Red. Please come prepared for cold weather in the morning and cooler temp's all day long. Logan is typically about 6 degrees cooler than Salt Lake and the forecast is for temp's to be additional 10 degrees below normal for this time of year.
Saturday morning forecast is for a very cold 39 degrees when you wake up and low to mid 40's by the 8 am start. Dress warm! We expect partly sunny conditions during the day with highs in the low to mid 60's - and a chance of a passing shower.
We ask you to come prepared: consider riding with a windbreaker or rain jacket on (or carry one in your jersey), arm & leg warmers are handy if it warms up and maybe even light full-fingered gloves if your hands have a tendency to get cold. Two pairs of socks or shoe covers may help . Hopefully the weather will be perfect but we also rely on your preparation in case it turns cold or showery.
If you are coming to the free Friday night BBQ and packet pickup from 5 to 8:30 pm, dress warm since the party is outdoors and there is a chance of rain.
We are easy to find but here are the directions from Salt Lake: I-15 North to exit #362 (Brigham City), follow Hwy 91 to 89 towards Logan and about 5 miles from Logan, watch for Hwy 23 and the Wellsville turnoff. Turn left (north) and go about 1 mile to Wellsville City Park. Turn right into the driveway before the Church and the Park is just ahead. Travel time is about 2 hours. For those of you coming in from the North (Tremonton, Idaho) via I-15, we have learned that UT-30 was closed June 2nd for repairs. You will have to continue South on I-15 to the same exit as above exiting to Brigham City. Please plan accordingly. We look forward to seeing you!!
PS Please make your friends aware of the above forecast. Just to be sure - plan on two sets of clothing; one if its cold and another if the forecast is wrong, and it turns out to be warm and beautiful. Then you will be prepared for everything.
Best regards,
Jerry Bergosh
LRRH Event Director
C/O Big and Bad
The weather looks pretty good if you ask me! I hope the wind forecast is right! I am shoving off a smidge after noon today - see you all there!
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