Foxy's Falll Classic - Davis

[aka_kim]

This was my 3rd Foxy's - I did the 100k two years ago, and the 100 miler last year and this year. The 100 mile course is much, much prettier and more fun. I don't think the 100k is worth doing, unless of course you're riding with those crazy Bobs and Trekhawk, since there is nothing to see and the roads are sometimes rough.

My favorite part of the 100 mile route is miles 65 - 75 , or that whole section from Wooden Valley to the dam.

I haven't been riding enough to do 106 miles comfortably, and I was whimpering aloud the last 10 miles (fortunately no one was around to hear). The excellent dinner and dessert perked me back up though.

[RolliePollie]

...and I was whimpering aloud the last 10 miles (fortunately no one was around to hear). The excellent dinner and dessert perked me back up though.

Ummm, I was whimpering those last few miles too. My group dropped me about 8 miles from the end so I was all alone. And I was whining, fussing, whimpering, cursing at my screaming white-hot burning feet, etc.

I also thought that the best part of the course was after the 100K course turned off. Tomorrow I'll ask the gals from work who did the 100K what they thought. I enjoyed the flat farmland scenery too because it's totally different than where I live. But all flat and no hills at all could get really boring.

I think I realized that I do need to train a little more on flat terrain. It is a whole different ballgame than riding hills all the time. You never get a break from pedalling when it's flat...I think that wore me out and I'm sure it's why the hills seemed harder.

Wasn't the ice cream at the dinner delicious?!?!?! I wanted to go back for more but the line got super long and I didn't want to wait. Hmmm, now I want ice cream right now. A trip to the store may be in order.

[xeney]

My kid ate most of my ice cream, and then most of her father's when he finished his ride. It was tasty, indeed.

I did the 100K two years ago, with my husband, and he assures me that you miss all the good stuff if you don't do the full century. There was some pretty country on the 100K but mostly just, you know, dirt. Flat dirt. The 50K (which I have done twice -- we rode it four or five years ago, three days after I got my road bike) is all the least interesting parts of both rides, plus some time on the bike trail. Putah Creek Road is the only part that's pretty.

[SadieKate]

Why do you think I organized so many Dam Corners and Valleys rides where we just rode the middle 62 miles*? That 20 miles each at the beginning and end that are flat, flat, flat and even flatter are horribly monotonous. And, yes, I always got a laugh out of the people not used to riding flatland. On the otherhand, they could laugh at me in the hills.

Yeah, I'm enjoying my central Oregon mountains.

*Well there was Steady Eddy's. It's stil in business, right? It was in September!

[jobob]

Congratulations, Rollie Pollie!

Sorry I wasn't there to whimper with you, Kim. Next time.

Oh, and SK, Steady Eddy's is still open (whew!). But Railroad St and the parking lot next to Eddy's is all torn up. See what happens when you go away? All hell breaks loose.

[aka_kim]

I recently read an article about the economic woes on "Main Street" which included a few businesses in Winters - a day spa, and ... something. I can't find the article online, so maybe I just dreamed it. But anyway, we all better cross our fingers that Steady Eddy's does remain in business.

[deedolce]

Diane, the better half of Steady Eddie, talked to my friend a couple of weeks ago, and she mentioned it was thanks to the cyclists that they're still in business! I know it's a weekly stop for me on my weekend rides! Yum for the Breakfast Deluxe Sausage panini!

Glad y'all seemed to enjoy the ride. I worked morning registration and the Solano Lake lunch stop/rest stop. And then I got to eat the leftover dinner and desert the next couple of days...yum is right. Man, that race team can cook!

[Trekhawk]

I haven't been riding enough to do 106 miles comfortably, and I was whimpering aloud the last 10 miles (fortunately no one was around to hear). The excellent dinner and dessert perked me back up though.

LOL - I bet you still looked fabulous though. You always make riding look so effortless. You and SK have such a great looking ride style.

[SadieKate]

Hmph.

Kim, don't you distinctly remember TH and others laughing at us one day over that "style"?

[jobob]

I remember no such thing!

[aka_kim]

Laughing?! At us?! Of all the nerve!

SK, isn't this "style" part of our shock & awe strategy?

[Trekhawk]

Laughing?! At us?! Of all the nerve!

SK, isn't this "style" part of our shock & awe strategy?

LOL - you both know I think you are fabulous and whatever jokes you make the fact remains that you both look great turning those pedals. You have a very similar style and it a style that makes riding look super easy.