Mountains of Misery & Wilderness Road Ride

[7rider]

I'm not convinced that I can do that ride on a compact double.

I think I need to ride up Hamburg, Gambrill Park Road, and Coxey Brown a few times a day until the end of May. And maybe do the civil war century route a couple of times.

If/when you do these rides - call me. I need HILL training if I'm to do the Blue Ridge Parkway this September. Not sure if MOM is in the plans, however.

[Cataboo]

I think I will literally be trying to do them once a day at least. I don't see how else I'm going to be ready to do MOM in 2 months time? I'm pretty sure I can ride 100 miles slowly at this point (I so didn't use my trainer like I should have, and hiking/snowshoeing/skiing is not aerobic enough), but I'm not sure about those hills.

Next week I'm going out to ski at Aspen. But otherwise,I think I'll be cycling on weekends and weekdays. I want to get out to Assateague with the kayak before the mosquitos & ticks come out to play.

I think you're going to be too fast for me (I hate slowing people down) - but maybe you & R can take off and I'll meet you at the top of the hills.

I'll train on the litespeed with the compact, and decide right before hand whether or not to take the triple. I'm mildly gear retarded, so I do a lot better with the compact double.

[Zen]

Check out the one called OMG WTF

[Catrin]

Check out the one called OMG WTF

This makes a hill that I am trying to master in a local park look MUCH easier