Will you by my friend?

**madscot13** · 08-11-2007, 03:41 PM

ha ha. I am here! I miss my friends and family already. My bike will be here in the not too distant future (who really knows, i let my dad take care of it). Now all I have to do is find permanent housing. I hope to join you all on a ride when my bike arrives.

**HillSlugger** · 08-11-2007, 05:12 PM

I guess if you can't find a place right away you can always set up in that box of yours

Hope to meet you soon.

**Zen** · 08-11-2007, 08:09 PM

We're your family now. Your dysfunctional family

I could strap you on a luggage rack on my mountain bike and we could ride on the canal

When do classes start?

**madscot13** · 08-12-2007, 04:18 AM

Monday at 3:00. late start huh?

**tulip** · 08-13-2007, 07:51 AM

DC and the surrounding area are great places to ride bikes. Pick up a copy of the ADC Bike Map for the DC region. Check out Potomac Pedalers (bikepptc.org) and Oxen Hill Bike Club (ohbike.org). They have in-town rides, mountain bike rides, and road rides farther afield.

Not much snow, though. If that's really important to you, I doubt you'll stay long. Kayaking is great, however.

**F8th637** · 08-13-2007, 08:26 AM

Welcome! Check out the local Meetup group and also BikeWashington.org for cycling info in the area.

**aicabsolut** · 08-18-2007, 12:37 PM

Welcome to DC. I live in Foggy Bottom and generally ride out through Gtown to do most of my DC area riding. A popular route is to head up MacArthur into Maryland. From there, you can do a short loop, hill repeats, or a variety of long rides around Poolesville or out to Sugarloaf. There are a bunch of clubs in the area. Some of the more race-oriented clubs also have plenty of members who just do the group rides and don't race. Every day at lunchtime or in the evenings you'll find a bunch of people doing laps down at Hains Point (East Potomac Park), which is fairly easy to get to from Georgetown even during high traffic times on the trails. I don't much like the traffic in DC, and I prefer to ride out in the country when I get the chance, but it's not too bad if you time things well.

**Zen** · 08-18-2007, 07:34 PM

Hey Madeline-
you should try to get with someone and come up this way to ride the civil War Century on September 8!
I signed up for the 50 along with MD Hill Slug and I think DivingBiker is doing the 25.
Tam?

**madscot13** · 08-18-2007, 07:57 PM

We will have to see. My bike is still at home and I am wicked out of shape. But the half century sounds really enticing.

**Kalidurga** · 08-19-2007, 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by zencentury

Hey Madeline-
you should try to get with someone and come up this way to ride the civil War Century on September 8!
I signed up for the 50 along with MD Hill Slug and I think DivingBiker is doing the 25.
Tam?

I don't think I'm going to be able to do the Civil War 25. I've already registered for the Tour du Port in October, but September's turning out to be a crazy month for me. And I'm debating between the She Got Bike! ride on 9/30 and attending a cyclocross race that same morning. And there was talk of doing another DC Monument ride after Labor Day, when the heck can we squeeze that in??

Oy, too many riding options make my head spin

See, Madeline, you've got nothing to worry about, DC's a crazy cyclin' town

**divingbiker** · 08-19-2007, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by zencentury

Hey Madeline-
you should try to get with someone and come up this way to ride the civil War Century on September 8!
I signed up for the 50 along with MD Hill Slug and I think DivingBiker is doing the 25.
Tam?

I'm doing the 50 mile ride also at the Civil War ride. 25 at She Got Bike.

**Zen** · 08-19-2007, 10:45 AM

Oops.
Janice, I may have gotten you confused with MD Slug - unless we're all doing the fifty

**HillSlugger** · 08-19-2007, 12:38 PM

I talked about the 50 at the Civil War Century, but now that my Iron Girl triathlon is over I've got to rest my knee for a while and I don't think I'll be ready. She Got Bike is definitely out, but I'd like to do Tour du Port. A lot will depend on what my knee doctor tels me next week.

**Zen** · 08-19-2007, 01:30 PM

a shot of synvisc, a shot of cortisone, a shot of whiskey, you'll be fine

**madscot13** · 08-19-2007, 06:31 PM

let me think about the Civil war ride. If I sign up it will be for 50 miles (sort of to make it worth it). My goal was to ride a century this fall but a half century will half (

) to do. If my dad can ship my bike so that I can at least push 35 miles before the ride I will.

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