Climbing Club - April Goals

[maillotpois]

OMG - I was thinking (at midnight) what a wonderfully civilized ride the Mt. H Challenge is!! I did it 2 years ago with my friend David - it was both of our first real 200ks. I saw David at their rest stop 2/3 of the way to the junction yesterday. At that point, I was ahead of where I estimated I would be time-wise - and he was behind where I thought he would be. I never expected to see him, and it was a real treat!

That is a fun ride! Although I am not wild about descending that side of Hamilton. Beats climbing it, though.

But I can't ride it next year anyway as I've committed to doing ride support for DMD.

[jobob]

dagaus, perchance?

Last night I was looking up his Wine Country Century ride from last year that he uploaded on MotionBased. I'm already plotting my shortcut back to the finish after Coleman Valley & Rt. 116

[maillotpois]

Yup, Dagaus. AKA Ubergeek. (Not only does he seem to upload ALL of his rides to Motion Based, he still uses both his Polar and his Garmin. )

He's the one who got me on BikeJournal, and that brought me here, so I have a lot to be grateful to him for!

[Trekhawk]

Great job on the climbing everyone.

I guess I will have to readjust my "goal". I hit 48,609 for April because of a "little ride" I did yesterday.

MWBR. I have to go get food.

OK its official you are a mountain goat.

Congratulations on a rather bumpy ride - 19000 OMG.

Im off to start our May thread

[SadieKate]

I got a wimpy 12,964 ft in this month, 486 ft short of my goal. However, I think I get double credit for all the climbing yesterday in the 103 degree heat.

So in one ride MP got half again as much climbing as I did all month. So what?

[Veronica]

I'm also falling short. I'll finish today with about 22,000 feet, no mountains and no mountain biking this month.

V.

[maillotpois]

I'm also falling short. I'll finish today with about 22,000 feet, no mountains and no mountain biking this month.

V.

Well, you did spend a whole day doing an excellent public service with your great support of DMD, so in my book that counts as a lot.

[GLC1968]

Well, April was a total BUST for me. I only rode 4 times for a whoping total of 3900 ft of climbing. Bah.

I lost a week and a half to a crazy work schedule and then (due to my crazy work schedule) another week and a half to an upper-respiratory infection.

Oh well...I am excited that I am riding this afternoon for the first time since April 8th.

Here's hoping May is a much better month!

[Veronica]

Well, you did spend a whole day doing an excellent public service with your great support of DMD, so in my book that counts as a lot.

Thanks. Volunteering is a lot of fun. We got home so late, there was no way I was going to back and ride Hamilton on Sunday like I had planned. But my local 40 miler was just right.


V.

[Starfish]

I guess I will have to readjust my "goal". I hit 48,609 for April because of a "little ride" I did yesterday.

This is just so outrageous to me that my mouth is hanging open. Seriously. If you look, you'll see me bowing to the master.

[maillotpois]

Well, I don't know about that, Starfish. But thanks. You know, we all just do what we can. Seems like my training right now is pretty climbing intensive. Which is ironic because honestly I am not a great climber - I am persistent and steady but by no means fast on the climbs. I used to be a lot faster. Working on it.

At the beginning of the month, I wasn't planning to do the ride with the 19,000 feet of climbing I did on Saturday. But then it started to seem like a good idea.

[Starfish]

But then it started to seem like a good idea.

LOL ... This is always the way things start in cycling!

[maillotpois]

Well, I did a ride report for DMD. If you have a few hours to kill, it's here:

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=15205

[Starfish]

Sarah, thanks for the awesome ride report. SO inspirational!

[Wahine]

So I blew away my running climbing goal of 20 000 feet - I got 22. As for the bike, I would have had that but i got sick and couldn't do anythig for about 5 days in April so I ended up at 24 000 feet instead of my planned 25 000.

Not bad fro a girl that moved here from the praries and still rides with a standard double.