LRRH Ride Reports

[jobob]

Hee hee, I remember from last year both the annoying headwind, and Little Red himself cheering us on at the top of that last hill.

Glad you had a good time.

2000 registrants ! Holey moley.

[Alex]

I had a ball at LRRH today. I'm so excited at having completed my first century EVER, that I had to post a separate thread over in the general cycling section.

I met lots of TE'ers along the way and the course was really great. After all the hills I've been riding, all that flat stuff was fabulous.

My friend got two flats, so I was mighty happy to have tire liners in, cuz 4 flats would REALLY have sucked.

The only thing I have to ask is why were so many riders such menaces to society? I saw people riding three and four abreast. I saw people riding ON the center line, and no one was on their right. I saw a semi have to STOP because of riders who were in the middle of the road. Yikes.

I hope everyone else had as great a time as I did!

Alex

[yellow]

Well, SadieKate and I perservered, and SK once again busted her PB for a century (she did this last year at LRRH too). Great weather but I have to disagree with the headwind bidness...compared to last year, the wind was way mellower. I never felt like I was battling it this year like last year.

aka_kim, you'll be happy to know that we did not get ANY flats.

We took pictures, of course (because we always do). We started a little ahead of the "official" time and never caught up with Alex (at least we don't think we did; we heard a rumor that she was ahead of us) but saw CyclaSutra and friend, sulis, sbctwin, and Jones and some of their friends at some of the stops. Never saw Lifesgreat or Tater! (we looked for both of you at every stop.) We "picked up" a new friend, Tammy, who has only been riding for a few months and is incredibly talented. She keeps it up and she'll be kickin' all of our butts in no time!

OK, so here are some shots (not the best, but shots nonetheless).

In this one we have friend of CyclaSutra, CyclaSutra, sulis, Jones, friend of sulis, sbctwin, yellow, and SadieKate:



And here are SadieKate and yellow on the Idaho-Utah state line:



And yellow and Tammy in the same spot:



It was a great ride. I'm surprised at how good I felt considering I really haven't been riding much! Tomorrow SK and I are off to get pedicures and then mountain biking in Park City. Yipee!

[aka_kim]

aka_kim, you'll be happy to know that we did not get ANY flats.

Smart aleck! Sounds like you should have been riding with Alex and friend.

Looked like a beautiful day. Glad you all had fun!

[Lifesgreat]

Yellow,

Sounds like you and SK had a great time. I saw Tater at the Amalga and lunch stops and met up with Sulis et al at lunch and the Newton stops.

[Trekhawk]

Sounds like another great year at LRRH. Well done all.
Love the pics.

[BikeDutchess]

What a wonderful day it was! We also got caught by the unplanned detour--apparently the road construction caught the organizers by surprise as it was started after the route was marked. But you know what, it was such a gorgeous day, and everyone was having so much fun, it all didn't matter! Instead of the planned 68, we ended up doing 77 miles. My daughter, with the help of some "vitamin I" and lots of stretching during the rest stops, managed to finish all 77. What a blast it was! Next year I'm trying for the full century!

I had one flat but it was at a rest stop so a "wolf" was immediately available to fix it.

I have to agree with Alex about some of the inconsiderate/unsafe riders--I usually try to mind my own business but I couldn't help reminding a few to ride only 2 abreast or to move to the right if they were riding by themselves. I don't remember this being such a problem last year. Maybe because the crowd was bigger this year? Things did get a little better when we split off on the 68 mile route and it thinned out.

We had such a fantastic day! Kudos to the organizers (Penny, Robin, Linda, and their team of volunteers) for putting together such a great event!

P.S. the only disappointment was that there was no message on my phone telling me I had won the Ruby or the Orbea....

[CyclaSutra]

Hey, had a fantastic time riding with Jones, SBCTwin and Sulis (plus associated friends). They convinced us to do the distance, although my pal Kelsey and I had pretty much talked ourselves into the metric. Hung out with Lifesgreat at the end, too.

It could have been a PB for me (gotta check) which is crazy considering I'm carrying around a lot of extra winter/cookie-induced fluff and haven't ridden a century since last August; my longest ride this season was 56. I guess that shows you what girl power can do! Our little group carried on a respectable 15-ish average.

I wouldn't have noticed the fellow TE-ers had Jones not been wearing an A-V jersey and I said "Hey! Do you know Yellow and SadieKate?" Busybodyness pays off again.

Great to see you all!