It's a small HOT world!

[SadieKate]

Sheesh, how does Sue manage to get one's entire life history so quickly?

[aka_kim]

Geez. The ride sounds so ... not fun. Glad I wasn't there .

[SadieKate]

Kim, did Megan reach you? She called me to say she was calling you to arrange to mail the jersey. Everybody went into survival mode Saturday.

[mimitabby]

wow, talk about being spellbound through an entire ride report! was that weather uh, "NORMAL"?

who is this Homey and howcome the weather didn't bother him?

How did Bill get his shoes off?

I'd love to hear the stats of finishers and DNF's!


you guys rock for being able to complete that ride. There's NO WAY I could have done it.

[SadieKate]

Avg high this time of year is 77. Avg rainfall is about 14". They'd had 3" inches of rain this year.

Mimi, read over on bikejournal about RAAM. Homey was a member of the RAAM 4-man team Cyclonauts and will be doing it again this year on a coed 4-man team. He's raced Furnace Creek 508 6 times and finished 4. He's a machine on the bike and just a great guy to know. Fredwina and bikerchick68 are more (somewhat) local friends of his. He kept me on the bike when I was truly scared about the heat and my MS. The weather bothered him also but he didn't admit that he was going to hurl because it wasn't "manly." He said that several times I stopped just in time for him. His normal training buddies only finished 90 mins before we did so I don't think we did too badly even though that was the slowest 87 miles of my life.

Bill finally figured out his shoes when he realized that this version of cramps was the front of his leg so he needed to bend them. The vastus medialius seized when normally it's his hamstrings.

No stats are kept on finishers and DNFs unless the SAG drivers take some kind of note but I don't think they were. They and the CHP were frantically cruising the course trying to pick up bodies before they became carcasses.

[Fredwina]

...Mimi, read over on bikejournal about RAAM. Homey was a member of the RAAM 4-man team Cyclonauts and will be doing it again this year on a coed 4-man team. He's raced Furnace Creek 508 6 times and finished 4. He's a machine on the bike and just a great guy to know. Fredwina and bikerchick68 are more (somewhat) local friends of his. ....

Homey is a great guy to know. He's accomplisehed a lot of stuff, but doesn't take himslef too seriously. Plus, he's always helpful. I could have used him in AZ last weekend. More local? I'm about 260 miles from Paso Robles, so I think we're about the same there, although he does have Family in San diego, which would be closer to Bikerchic and moi.

[Trekhawk]

Geez. The ride sounds so ... not fun. Glad I wasn't there .

LOL - Im with Kim, for once Im glad my husband's job kept me from a ride. Yikes if it was that hard for you studs I would have been toast.

[Adventure Girl]

They and the CHP were frantically cruising the course trying to pick up bodies before they became carcasses.

Oh... Good times! I was registered for this ride, but I sold my spot. I'm very glad I did! This does NOT sound like fun at all!