Dam Corners and Valleys road ride - Sat, May 19

[SadieKate]

Wunderbar.

[SadieKate]

Bubba and SK
The Bobs
aka_kim
tprevost and spousal unit
TrekHawk
Cindysue
maybe roborider

[tprevost]

Bubba and SK
The Bobs
aka_kim
tprevost and spousal unit
TrekHawk
Cindysue
maybe roborider

no spousal unit this time... he's moving this weekend

[SadieKate]

Making him do the work while you run and play?

The New List
Bubba and SK
The Bobs
aka_kim
tprevost
TrekHawk
Cindysue
maybe roborider

[tprevost]

Making him do the work while you run and play?

The New List
Bubba and SK
The Bobs
aka_kim
tprevost
TrekHawk
Cindysue
maybe roborider

nah.... making him move up near me ... not seeing him for weeks at a time is just plain yucky!

[aka_kim]

I'm still planning to be there. This Saturday, 7 am (ack!), Winters.

[cindysue]

7am. Hmmm. See you there

[tprevost]

you guys are gonna kill me! I'm out.... gonna have to run down to OC w/my truck as bf's truck isn't big enough to pull the trailer (he's moving) At least I'll get to ride Saturday while he loads it

[SadieKate]

What? How are you gonna ride if we've killed you?

[tprevost]

What? How are you gonna ride if we've killed you?

good point! we just realized his truck won't pull the trailer size he needs.... DUHHHHHHHH!!!!! So I'll spend 16 hours driving this weekend.... and squeezing in a 50 miler on Saturday

[Trekhawk]

you guys are gonna kill me! I'm out.... gonna have to run down to OC w/my truck as bf's truck isn't big enough to pull the trailer (he's moving) At least I'll get to ride Saturday while he loads it

Oh no what a bummer. I was looking forward to meeting you and catching up on all the gossip.

Good luck with the move.

[jobob]

traaaaaaaaac ....

Well, see you at Healdsburg or for margaritas the evening before

[maillotpois]

All right people. I want a report on the Ring of Fire ride!

I was still a bit dazed and confuzed when I saw SK at the finish of the DC so I didn't really get much detail out of her. But from snooping in her journal I hear that some of you are trying out for the CDF's Cycling Fire Fighting squad....

Details!! I want details!

And yes, I did the Davis double, but there was huge confusion since the course was changed while we were on the route - no one knew what was going on. The bike club did a great job of setting up SAGs out of order, but we had a bit of down time stopped at the end of some road trying to figure out where we were going - there was no way for them to communicate the changes to everyone and a whole groupd of us went one way, turned around, went the other way, turned around. And the route was quite a bit harder, and less pretty. We had a LOT more traffic.

And the only land speed records set were for slowest ever Davis double by the Pois family. Mr. P gets the freakishly strong robot award. And I get the sucky slow rider award. Oh well. At least I didn't crash and separate my collar bone like my friend Mike. He lent me his light at lunch since he wouldn't be needing it and that ensured that we did indeed finish before dark, which was good.

Yesterday was a good lesson in adaptation, I think.

[yellow]

All right people. I want a report on the Ring of Fire ride!

Yeah, y'all got some story tellin' to do.

MP, you also need to explain the "strong robot award". Slow and sucky you will never be, so just stop that right this instant, missy.

I feel so out of the loop.

[maillotpois]

"Strong robot."

My husband complains that he doesn't like doing double centuries, and he'd rather ride short (100 or less) and fast. Problem is, then he goes to do a double and he rides long and fast. All freaking day. I just don't get it. I am really impressed at how well he does - and it pushes me to stay with him. And I just can't sit on the wheel all day either, I have to take my pulls even if I don't feel great. But he gets on the front, and we're going the same speed at mile 180 that we were at mile 50.

We actually had a negative split on the ride - the climb of Cobb was in the first half. (We got the bonus double Resurrection climbs because of the course change. Lucky us. ) And even though he left me on the long climbs to go ahead, my ride time was only 1/2 hour more than his.

Wicked bad hot foot on Resurrection. Last 2 doubles I have been plagued by this. I got to the rest stop and gave Mike my shoe to have the cleat moved back, which helped a bit.