Horsey Hundred 2008

[Mr. Bloom]

By the way (and I may have already mentioned this), I made hotel reservations at the Drury Inn in Terre Haute for RAIN. You might think about making reservations sooner rather than later. I imagine that the hotels do fill up rather quickly.

You're right. I understand that RaIN has has many riders as Terre Haute has hotel rooms!

Drury is booked, so I just booked at the Hampton. Want to meet for dinner the night before?

Anyone else want to join us for dinner? Marcie? Susan?

Also, we're at the Hampton Inn for the Horsey. It was fine last year.

[makbike]

I would love to do RAIN but I don't have anyone to drive my support car across the state . If I find someone to do this for me I'll be there if not I'll enjoy the HH and 3S3M.

[susan.wells]

I registered for the HH and made hotel reservations at Fairfield Inn. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone. I did 3S3M in 2004. I registered for the 100m but ended up doing the 100k since we didn't make the cut-off time (I had gotten somewhat nauseated but managed to complete the ride). I'm not doing RaIN this year but doing one helluva ride instead. Has anyone done the Brown County Hills Challenge? I've added that one to my event list for the year. I'm trying to make it a climbing year... well as much as you can and live in Indiana!

[Mr. Bloom]

susan,

We had 5,200 feel of climbing at the Horsey in the first 50 miles. Last year, if they had published elevations, I wouldn't have gone!

...and Brown County - YUCK! Nothing better for climbing in Indiana! Maybe we'll be there too!

Fairfield is right across the road from Hampton - so we'll see you there! Of course, the western line of Georgetown is only about a mile from the eastern line...so nothing is too far

[indysteel]

Silvers, let me get back to you regarding dinner. I'm planning on doing the ride with a couple I know from my training ride and I wouldn't be surprised if we ate soemthing before driving down there early in the evening. That's what we did last year. Once in Terre Haute, we registered, got our bikes unloaded, our gear laid out and went to bed.

Susan, I don't know much about that Bloomington ride, but one ride that my friends do every year and love is Hoosier Hills. It's usually in mid-September. http://bloomington.in.gov/parks/hoosierhills.php. I was just coming back from BRAT last year, so I didn't do it.

Also, there's a club ride called JAWS in early June that's good (and hard). It's put on by the Central Indiana Bicycling Association. It's not a fee ride and you can just show up on the day of. It's one of the few centuries that the Club puts on and there are other route lengths offered. I did the 58 mile route last year and that was plenty for me after having done the century at the Horsey two weeks earlier.

[Aggie_Ama]

How often does this sell out early? I told DH about it last year and how I wanted to see Kentucky (never been). We didn't think his nursery would let him free to make the road trip but they might! The Horsey is our 5 year wedding anniversary, I think riding is the way to spend it.

[makbike]

Aggie, I don't think it sells out for I know last year there were several people registering the day of the event. Please come to Kentucky for the weekend it is a beautiful place to spend a weekend and hey the people are very nice as well. Hope to see you guys in May.