Civil War Century - 9/6/08

[7rider]

Hi there.
I just registered DH and myself for the Civil War Century today.
The ride is Saturday, September 6th, and this year, it's limited to 1600 riders, with no walk-in registration. That last part is a bummer, as that's what we did last year, but c'est la vie. Now we must commit. DH and I registered for the 105 mile ride. It is a challenging ride, to say the least. Tons of climbing.
So....who is up for a challenging ride through the mountains past historical sites (Antietam gave me goosebumps)?
Register early, if you're going. I hope to see you there!

[Zen]

(Antietam gave me goosebumps)

How so?

[7rider]

How so?

Don't rightly know. It just did.
Coulda been the beginning stages of heat exhaustion at that point, too.

[juliemcd]

I plan on doing it, but only the metric century, with an eye on doing the century next year...
Thanks for the tip on registering early, I will do so ASAP...

[HillSlugger]

I'm not sure yet. If I do, it will either be the 50 or the metric.

[Zen]

I'm in.

[7rider]

Great!
For those curious....the Metric and shorter rides look at the mountains, but don't climb them. Only the 3/4 Century and the full century climb them.
The shorter rides are pretty flat.

[ny biker]

I'm doing the metric with a friend. We'll be driving up from nova so will probably be starting on the late-ish side. If anyone wants to meet up with us at the start, let me know.

Can't wait for those tomato sandwiches!

[Zen]

I am definitely getting there at the buttcrack of dawn this year.
We need to pick a place to meet up.
Like right at the corner of that building.
Or we could use cell phones.
Oh. Yeah. Cell phones. I forgot

ETA- for anyone reading this now and considering this, sorry. The ride is full.

[7rider]

We'll be there around 7:30 for an 8:00 departure with the folks from the Bicycle Place.
Look for us by the white house at the registration area. We'll all be wearing Bike Place team jerseys. There will be about 15 of us.
Say Hi. If you're doing the full century, keep me company when I get dropped on the first climb!

[Becky]

I know that ride registration is closed and that this is very last-minute, but DH and I just found out that we don't have to work that Saturday! So, if anyone has 2 CWC registrations that they can't use and would otherwise go to waste, we'd love to have them. I'm happy to reimburse the registration fees via Paypal or in person.

Please let me know by Thursday if you can help me out! Many thanks in advance!

[Zen]

Does anyone plan on riding in the rain?
Not me. Wet brakes + those hills= bad.
I ordered a T-shirt so I'm going pick it up Friday night at the pre-registration.
If anyone else got a shirt and isn't going to ride I'll try to pick it up for you.

[7rider]

Wet brakes + those hills= bad.

I come up with the same results when I do the math.

I'm really looking to see how Hanna tracks.
I may look to do the metric (flat) if it's *chance* of rain, but if it's already raining come Friday night (or Saturday a.m.), chances are, I'm shutting off the alarm and sleeping in on Saturday.

And thanks, but we didn't order the t-shirts....

[ny biker]

Well since my friend flew in from Ireland just to do this ride, we're really hoping that somehow the weather won't be too bad. We've agreed we don't mind riding in regular rain but heavy rain + wind is right out. So we will decide at the last minute what we're doing.

We were planning to do the metric. This morning on the news they were saying that the heaviest rain should be east of us, and based on the weather maps it looks like the storm will still be south of us early Saturday morning so maybe the worst won't hit until sometime in the afternoon. If that's the case, I'm hoping we might be able to at least do the 50-miler before conditions get too bad.

If we decide not to chance it, we're considering the Indian Head metric on Sunday as a backup (and hoping they don't have too much storm damage to clean up in that area).

[ASammy1]

Great... I'm south of you (Virginia Beach)...

I heard on the weather report this morning that we should expect power outages...

Be careful everyone!