Long Distance Girls....

[SadieKate]

You have to admit it is funny to hear someone complain about horrible winds and then send a chart that shows 12.6 mph max wind speed.

Hey, Veronica! Hey you! Cyndi has a Garmin 60CSx that she's never used. She loaned it to me so I'm going to see if I can get it reved up for Pardee. I may be picking your brains (as in you and Thom). We're going to take it on the Telluride trip.

[Veronica]

That's cool! You can get a car charger for it. Might be handy for charging it at night if the truck is being run for warming water for showers or whatever. I used batteries the whole time in NS. They lasted about two days.

V.

[Trekhawk]

Hey long distance weirdos.. uh gals. So I was riding the Cindy this past weekend....

Somewhere around mile 30 (ok, laugh at me) I was getting kinda bored and I thought of you folks. What do you do for your 200ks or 300ks???

Warning.. maybe I do have a bit of ADD or something.. but I was just wondering what you all do or think about or...focus on.. or whatever!

You talk and talk and talk to the poor person your riding with. Poor Jobob and Leebob.....yep I should be called team chin wag.

[Fredwina]

OK, how much climbing is on the davis 400K? I'm debating between that and the Arizona 300K on the 28th. I think I need back to the midwest....

It looks like Davis is out, I won an FSA K-wing handlebar at a a club drawing, and my LBS is backed up(I needed some other stuff done), and I really didn't try to that distance with a new setup, so I debating between the 300K from Camp Verde to Flagstaff, or the Wildflower(I know , the wildflower will knock me out of the R-12 challenge on Bike Journal, although Bryan G has claim that he will ride with me...

[SadieKate]

That's cool! You can get a car charger for it. Might be handy for charging it at night if the truck is being run for warming water for showers or whatever. I used batteries the whole time in NS. They lasted about two days.

V.

The car charger was in the box. They probably won't run the truck extraneous times because it's 6 days without chance for fuel. Last time, the town of Gateway was closed when we went through so no gas. Solar showers only unless there are a lot of guests which could be mean less water per person. There's a spring fed cattle tank at one camp spot that I have staked out in my mind. All the water for bathing you want as long as you like it just above freezing.

[cindysue]

I just mailed in my reg for the Davis 300K brevet in a couple of weeks.

did I miss something? where's the report? How was it? How come I heard nothing about this at Cinderella? I guess this is what I get for selective post reading.

edit - thanks snap for posting the link below

[snapdragen]

Here you go cindy - our intrepid long distance girl did file a ride report:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=14258

[SadieKate]

Moved over to this thread per MP's orders.

I cleaned up the drunken ramblings down in Vacaville. I couldn't handle it. I also cleaning up a bit of the careenings around Healdsburg just cuz.
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path...ute-unofficial

I also looked more closely at the route and it looks like Foothill is actually the 4th left but in 2 decades of riding the route I've never noticed Hardesty. Foothill is obviously a major intersection (major for the country) and is 5 miles after you start that gradual downhill from Cantelow.

For Vacaville -

--Come down Cardiac and hang a right at Pardehsa's Store (the 3-way to Lake Solano) and you know this intersection
--Go south for several miles up a false flat with a few rollers. The top will be Cantelow Rd (1st turn to the left).
-- Stay straight and continue several miles on a long slow downhill past 2 more roads to your left.
--4TH rd on your left is Foothill and the biggest intersection of the 4.
--This is the key: once you swoop around at the beginning of Foothill, you will essentially begin a series of turns that always take you east or north. The one exception is the I-80 overpass at Sparling and Pedrick which you know from the Fall 200k.
--Once you're over 1-80, it's the same return route. Stay on Tremont until you run into the T and turn north. Last leg take you right to the finish.

[maillotpois]

Wow, SK listens!

I need to print out all these things about the 400k and pore over them. Just really hoping it doesn't rain. I really love that this ride is pretty flat. Should be speedier all things considered.

[jobob]

MP & V & SK, did you see the this email from the DBC email list? (I saw it on the list archive)

http://dbclist.org/pipermail/dbc/2007-April/003688.html

Also, someone estimated the elevation with Topo:

http://dbclist.org/pipermail/dbc/2007-April/003687.html

[Veronica]

Yes SK very kindly sent it on to me.

V.

[maillotpois]

Ditto - but thanks for being sure we got it!

Rain, rain go away...

[Veronica]

Shhhh... if we keep quiet maybe the clouds won't know...

V.

[SadieKate]

I'm riding in the rain
Just riding in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I ride down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just ridin',
Ridin' in the rain

Thank yew, thank yew very much.

[jobob]

eat a cookie.