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[nuthatch]

I was wondering about that, Corsair, when you mentioned we were almost to 10,000 and I was seeing we were beyond that point. Looks even better now, huh?

[Bike Goddess]

I'll get some more miles in the BJ tonight This weekend I have to work so my mileage won't be much- but I've got two century rides coming up and then more riding in MAY. I wonder if we are #1 for the women teams on BJ? Does anyone know? i.e. How do we find out?

Re these 300 mile riders- hmm they must do it about 3x a week by my calculations! I'm still not completely convinced!

[Bike Goddess]

All right- We shall have 10,000 of those wonderful miles in as of tonight by my entry unless someone else beats me which just means more, more, more!

And yes, looks like some of those #1-50 riders do 300 miles/ ride. I know people that do double centuries, but past that- pretty amazing especially in the winter months. I can imagine what they'll rack up this summer while we are still going for our 50,000 (we only have 40,000 to go and its only April 15th)

[SadieKate]

Nancy, the Davis Bike Club has a large contingent of brevet qualifying rides. May 7th they have a 400km ride with a time allowance of 27 hours.

[Bike Goddess]

SK- Yeah, those brevet people,randoneurs or whatever you call them must be 1) Nuts, 2) Have lots of time in their lives to do nothing but ride. Not me! I'd rather be making cookies

[Veronica]

We did the Davis 200K brevet a couple of years ago.

V.

[CorsairMac]

I just posted my going home commute of 6 miles and it put us @ 11,006! Oh yeah...does that look good or what?.....as for highest ranked womens only team Nancy?...I don't know if Slantz has stats like that but he would be the one to ask. As for the rando riders being nuts: go look at the VRC thread - there's a rider named ChrisL who has already ridden across the US (virtually) and is on his way back and he just does that for fun. He commutes to work and then rides a century pretty much every night just coz he can! Now THAT"S nuts!

[Veronica]

Nancy you're 11th when you do a filter and have only women's stats. And 2nd when I factor in your age. You're also second out all females in CA and not too far behind. BTW I'm up and waiting for vitamin I again, so this is keeping from feeling the pain.

V.

[nuthatch]

All right- We shall have 10,000 of those wonderful miles in as of tonight by my entry unless someone else beats me which just means more, more, more!

And yes, looks like some of those #1-50 riders do 300 miles/ ride.

Hey, BG, if you click to view total miles instead of just outdoor miles, we are over 10,000 - woo,hoo!!!

I think those 300 people are just crazy - they don't work, they can't have a social life!!

I wasn't asked to classify our team as "women's" or "men's" when I set up the team, so I'd be surprised if Slantz can categorize them. I guess he could look for the word "women" in the club description but that wouldn't put the data in a database so's he could sort it that way.

[Bike Goddess]

Veronica- Of course you are my HILL model (in addition to Yellow our Hill Meister). Did you do this on a tandem or solo? The furthest I have ridden is 139 miles last year on the way to Porland from Seattle. I wanted to do a double metric and that was the closest I could get to the mileage I wanted.

Also haven't you done the DMD? That's a big one in my books as is the Grizzly Peak century.

What you don't do in mileage you do in hills- too bad we can't factor in altitudes into our overall miles. I think you would have me beat from all those Diablo trips!

[Bike Goddess]

V- I forgot to ask you how you were doing. Vitamins help? How long does it take for this condition to clear up?

[Veronica]

Today I rode up to the Junction on Diablo and I think exercise is helping. Certianly makes it easier to ignore. It seems to last between 4 and 7 days.

It was hot! Too hot for the pink cashemere I was wearing. But my arm got pawed out by a lot of men on the Riv ride.

I've never actually completed DMD. 116 miles, 11,000 feet of climbing out od 205 20,000+ feet of the full ride. I don't think I'll EVER complete DMD. At some point it becomes not fun. That's when I stop. Well actually last year it become not fun about 5 miles before I actually stopped.

V.

[nuthatch]

At some point it becomes not fun. That's when I stop.

Hear, hear for stopping when it's not fun anymore! I was thinking about that philosophy (about Veronica's thoughts on it earlier in this thread, I believe) today while I was riding - about that balance between driving yourself to acheive something and enjoying it. I sure would never want riding to become tainted and joyless. But I have to think about the balance all the time because I'm a lazy slug at heart.

[spazzdog]

Hi gang!

Veronica - Bike Goddess, What's the DMD?

Thanks.

spazz

[Veronica]

DMD = Devil Mountain Double. A 205 mile road ride - goes up Mount Diablo, Morgan Territory, Mount Hamilton and a few other significant climbs. All done in one day.
DMD Info

I have ridden it to "The Junction" mile 116.

V.