Civil War Century - 9/6/08

[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!

[ny biker]

Yes, I think Virginia Beach has more to worry about. I hope the storm doesn't hit you too hard.

I just got another email update from the CWC organizers which included this:

"Though our intention at this time is to hold the event as planned on Saturday, we will contact you with any updates as they become available. The longer we wait to make our final decision, the better the fidelity of that decision will be, since weather predictions will become more certain. Though we might contact you with an update on Thursday evening (of course you can watch the weather as easily as we can), it is likely that any notice of postponement or cancellation will not occur until Friday afternoon or evening. So please monitor your EMAIL."

If anyone here who is planning/hoping to do the ride is not getting these Event Update emails, let me know and I'll do my best to post them here as soon as I get them.

[7rider]

So, it looks like the Big Red Train of the Bicycle Place folks will be a mini train this year, as a lot of folks can't make the Sunday date.
But DH and I will be there for an 8 a.m. departure. I'll probably be the only woman in a team jersey. Say "Hi" if you see me. Who else will be there?