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07-30-2009, 10:45 AM #1
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07-30-2009, 12:47 PM #2
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Yeah, and I know that the route not only physically challenging but also for communicating from fringe coverage areas too.
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07-30-2009, 04:27 PM #3
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Yes, please do post ride reports. I was thinking about all of you as I got up for work at 4:30am and it was already 73 degrees. Hope the mountains provided you a little shelter from the heat!
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07-30-2009, 05:17 PM #4
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I heard from my DH about an hour ago. He said it was hot (duh) but he had a good ride...one flat (rear, of course) just outside of Enumclaw. The heat wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. That's probably because he was mentally prepared for it to be bad. The plan was to get as many miles in as they could before it really got hot, and then just take it easy & pace themselves. They did skip the ride up to Crystal. Apparently several people were having the same discussion. As expected, Cayuse was the toughest part, but isn't it always?
Hope to read some first-hand accounts here from those who did it themselves.
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07-30-2009, 06:07 PM #5
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Raleighdon finished around 6pm he said it was really hard on a tandem, harder than death ride on a single. YA THINK?
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07-30-2009, 06:22 PM #6
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Chris just called. He probably finished around 6:30. He DID do the last pass at the end but only because, he said, he was still feeling pretty good. He said they had a fair amount of shade, even on Cayuse Pass (till the last four miles), which made it more bearable than direct sun would have been. He took his time, drank a lot, stopped and sat in the shade for a few minutes when he needed to. They did a smart thing---handed out tube socks with ice that you could put around your neck, and he said he refilled his sock with ice at every stop and kept it on his neck. Sounds like he handled it intelligently and I was relieved to hear from him. It was both longer and harder than last year.
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"My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks
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07-30-2009, 06:56 PM #7
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Ice filled tube socks...that's brilliant.
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