Hilly Hundred - Day 1

[Mr. Bloom]

Well, a windy day! A little chilly...the sun never came out fully. We've been looking for Mary9761, but didn't find her yet. Mary, we're looking forward to your pictures...cause we didn't take any!

We were surprised to meet Mr. HoosierGiant...a man comes up to me and says "Are you Mr. Silver?" I'm thinking - "oh crud! What man knows me as 'Mr. Silver'". Enjoyed talking with him and hope to meet HoosierGiant too!

So, the ride: Started warmer than expected @ 50 degrees. The wind was about 10mph for half the ride! I don't like wind! We averaged 15.9 mph with >4,000 feet of climbing. Last year, we averaged 16mph, but there was no wind last year (and we had TrekJeni and friends to "pull")

Silver and I tried to do the course a second time, but I bonked 10 miles in and we turned around.

So, the day was 68 miles.

Tomorrow is the hillier day of the Hilly...yippee! Temp should start in the 30's but rise to the 60's.

[indysteel]

Glad you survived Day One, Mr. S. Have fun tomorrow. Good luck with Tabor.

[SouthernBelle]

Post your elevation profiles. I wanna know what I'm getting into if I come next year.

[Mr. Bloom]

Here you go Susan:

Day 1:

Day 2

Today, we ran into several people we've ridden with before. Compared to yesterday, weather started out colder, but got warmer. I got the thrill of leading "the train" through the Morgan/Monroe Forest at breakneck speedschoo choo

Our camera didn't work, so I'm hoping Mary9761 will have one of her outstanding photologues. We looked for her, but never found her.

[Veronica]

Here's a link to what the organizer reports the elevation to be.

http://www.hillyhundred.org/Route.html

Veronica

[SouthernBelle]

Scary stuff. I'm still not the best of climbers.

[jobob]

OMG too funny!

Day 1:
Posted route: 3321 ft
Garmin via Motion based: 4509 ft

Day 2:
Posted route: 3157 ft
Garmin via Motion based: 5062 ft

I never believe anyone's climbing measurement if it's off Motionbased. The amount the climb is inflated is ridiculous.

[Mr. Bloom]

Wow! What's even more hilarious is that I get very different measurements between last year's ride and this year's ride...but the elevation profiles and routes are identical.

Hmmm...this sounds like a question for Garmin/Motionbased...

[jobob]

I did a century once with a friend who then ran her Edge 305 data thru motionbased.

The route was advertised as about 6500 ft, my Ciclosport registered about 6300 ft and her Edge/Motionbased registered about ... 10,000 ft !

Granted, on that day, it certainly felt like 10,000 ft.

[mary9761]

I'm sorry I missed everyone from TE. I was volunteering in the primary school building sleeping bag area and didn't get away until nearly 8PM on Friday night so I didn't see a lot of people. I didn't leave until there was good daylight Saturday morning and since I rode more than I walked, I was fairly late getting to the first stop. I was tickled considering everything I'd been through physically in the past 2 years that I made it up more than halfway on Heartbreak Hill before I had to walk the rest. I didn't make it to the lunch stop before my back and knee were getting tired so I didn't want to risk fighting the 3 sisters. I made it to Solsberry before the SAG truck came through saying last SAG so I hopped in.
I was looking forward to hopefully seeing more people Saturday evening, so shortly after I got back to the school, I got ready to take my shower and head over to dinner and the program at the high school. I don't know if anyone else used the shower trucks at the school, but they were extremely dangerous as I was to find out. They were the fireline service showers with the bench for everyone to put their clothes etc on before climbing into the shower stall. I got ready to take my shower and was stepping back out to put my towel on the bench so it wouldn't get wet and when I stepped out of the stall, my left foot slipped on the slippery, wet floor. There was nothing on the floor for traction and the trailer I was in was on a slight incline. I went down hard, hitting the front of my left shin/ankle on the partition that separated the door from the shower area. I immediately had a huge knot on my leg. I also twisted my left (bad) knee. My biggest concern however was my back since I came down so hard and the ladies said I hit my lower back. I ended up going to Bloomington ER for xrays of my leg and lumbar back. Thankfully I don't have any fractures and my back has recovered completely, but my left leg is in an air cast and the bruising is really coming to the surface now. I still have a huge knot on my leg and it's quite painful. I didn't get as many pics this time since I was riding more and Saturday night was shot by the time I got a cab ride back to the school. I'm not sure when I'll be back on the bike again and I haven't put together a video yet, but here are a few from Saturday.











I could see the crest of Heartbreak Hill when I finally couldn't get restarted on the grade.