Eat A Peach/Westminster

[Zen]

Keep in mind I'm not doing this, I just posted that for a friend.

Why would an organization schedule a fundraising ride in August!!!???

[JmcG]

Hey all -
Just wanted to update you on the Eat a Peach ride......to sum it up - it's the toughest ride I've ever done (one of the guys with us had a GPS and determined we did at least 7000 feet of climbing in those 67 miles). And I do the Civil War Century every year, but I felt like this was tougher - there are no flats and so no recovery. It kicked my butt! It also didn't help that I went to the Gipsy Kings concert Friday night and only got about 4.5 hours of sleep....but anyway, it's a great ride, lots of fun, and it turned out to be great weather. It was really cool at the start and never got too hot. The ride was really well supported with great volunteers. We had a great time, although we ended up only doing the 67 miles. There was a cutoff time of finishing the 67 miles by 1pm, which we made, but we were so beat up, we decided we wouldn't benefit or gain anything by continuing on, and that it would just be a 33 mile sufferfest.

I would definitely recommend this ride to everyone, and it's nice b/c it has distances for all - 12 mile loop, 33 mile loop, 40 mile, 67 mile, and 100 miles. One guy I know did the 33 mile loop, felt great, so went out and did it again. That was the longest he's ever ridden, too!

So who's doing civil war century this year?? There's also the Reston Century on August 26, which I've never done but I'm registered for.

And next weekend, if you really want to suffer, but see how good you are at climbing a hill, there's an uphill time trial (0.9 miles - easy!) in Ellicott City on Ilchester Road. Here's the link for it:
http://www.chesapeakewheelmen.org/HiwayToHeavenTT.pdf
Currently there are only 2 women signed up (me and another lady).