Wine Country Century 5/6/2006

[jobob]

No prob. When I first got my road bike after riding a hybrid, it took me a while to get used to it - the brakes weren't where I was used to having them, the shifting was completely different, and the position felt very odd and insecure to me at first.

I was recounting today on our ride on the Alameda Creek trail about how I was so unsteady when I first started riding a road bike that one time I was riding along that trail and got too close to the edge of the pavement, froze up, and rolled down the side of the levee, and there was nothing I could do about it besides let out an ear-piercing shreek. Luckily I didn't run into anything and I managed to slow down before crashing into a fence. Back then I was terrified and sooo embarassed, but it's pretty funny now.

Hopefully you're not as klutzy as I am, but still, it might take you a bit to get used to handling the bike, and in a large ride like the Wine Country you'll need good control.

You'll get the hang of it, I promise. Probably quicker than I did.

[snapdragen]

sheesh. I'm still feeling beat up after the little adveture we had Saturday. A good kind of beat up, but beat up none the less! I'm seriously thinking I'm only going to do the 35 mile option. Baby steps.....

[SadieKate]

OK, I've got my cheering section going. Let's start one for snap. Take it easy this week. Rest up them legs and go for it. You've done some longer rides than 35 this year, right? Slow and easy and scenic. From the description, the climbing on the 65 route sounds about like the Cindy but far prettier.

[maillotpois]

And drink a ton of water. It is finally starting to get warm, so give your legs and bod some water to hydrate from your ride this weekend.

Good news about WCC is all the routes seem like they're pretty and you may well be able to start the metric and then do a bail out and make a shorter route - probably Deanna would know better, since she's "connected" and I don't know the 35/metric routes too well. But Iknow the 200k can easily be cut shorter, so I imagine the same is true for the others.

Go for it!! We finally have NICE weather so you will want to take advantage of it!!!

[cindysue]

quick note to let y'all know that I will end up doing the metric instead of the full century. No time on the bike in the last couple weeks due to double thesis duty and my only riding day spent trying to recover my files (my computer crashed and burned and is no longer useable - what timing, huh?)

see ya saturday!

[SadieKate]

OMG! I hope you had everything backed up!

p.s. limited posting until June....

Anyone else think this is funny?

[snapdragen]

You've done some longer rides than 35 this year, right?

Not much more.......:o

I'll drag my trusty Krebs map with me...... **runs off to see if she's got a map to cover this route**

[snapdragen]

/geek on

cindy - were you able to rescue any of your files? Do you know what died? Can the hard drive be pulled and hooked up to another box?

/geek off

quick note to let y'all know that I will end up doing the metric instead of the full century. No time on the bike in the last couple weeks due to double thesis duty and my only riding day spent trying to recover my files (my computer crashed and burned and is no longer useable - what timing, huh?)

see ya saturday!

[Deanna]

Wonderful. I look forward to the report.

In about 1988 (or 1989?) hubby and I rode the metric on our new tandem. Suffice it to say that I've never gone back because of the potholes. So where have our tax dollars gone in all these years?

Well, the weather called for a coast socked in with fog, so I re-routed to the north part of the county. I've ridden a few of the roads that will be on the route, and while there are some bad potholes, overall it's not nearly as bad as I was expecting. If the scotch broom is still in bloom next Sunday, the end of Chalk Hill will be real treat--it smelled beautiful for miles.

[Veronica]

Oh man, the ride is closed. I was thinking that since I'm not going to Central Coast, I could do this. Oh well. You snooze, you lose.

V.

[maillotpois]

Oh man, the ride is closed. I was thinking that since I'm not going to Central Coast, I could do this. Oh well. You snooze, you lose.

V.

Bummer!

Hey, you still ought to come to our 5/27 Skaggs ride. Even if you're not doing TT this year, it might be good "recon" for next year. That's what I'm thinking! Also, we've got a great 120 miler planned for June 10. Nice Marin route that will actually be good training for you now that you've decided to do the Mt. Tam Double. Oh - and we're doing our Pine Flat/Geysers ride again June 25...

So many "fun" rides! Come join us!

[Veronica]

I'm still on the fence about Tam. You did see my average speed for DMD right?

V.

[cindysue]

OMG! I hope you had everything backed up!

I was able to recover everything - thanks to the geeksquad and my credit card. thank goodness but too bad they couldn't salvage my computer. I'm now typing from my much slower PC -- and in the market for another laptop. Any suggestions on where/what to buy?

p.s. limited posting until June....
Anyone else think this is funny?

I was wondering when someone would say something. It's an addiction and a distraction - I'm the queen of getting distracted when it comes to these stupid theses. Gawd I'm a hateful person to be around these days.........

[cindysue]

/geek on

cindy - were you able to rescue any of your files? Do you know what died? Can the hard drive be pulled and hooked up to another box?

/geek off

they couldn't pinpoint it. But they did say my computer was "hosed"
- really! I have it in writing

[snapdragen]

they couldn't pinpoint it. But they did say my computer was "hosed"
- really! I have it in writing

Well, yes, hosed it a word bandied about in the geek world quite a bit....
Glad you were able to recover your stuff!