How was the Tour de Palm Springs??

[caligurl]

lol... no.. not sure of the temp! only quoting what my gps said! or rather the weather it posted at motionbased (however i believe they got it from the palm springs airport.. palm desert, indio, and coachello could have very well been hotter! and yes.. it felt hotter than 82! but i assumed it was cuz i was in the sun.. no shade.. and working! lol!)

i'm not sure what time i got to lunch.. passed photocrasy at 9:54.... so what... maybe 10:30?????????????? 11:00????

i woulda been soooo ticked though.. if they had run out of food! i know last year rest stop 2 was out of food since it did both the 100 and 55 milers... and i was ticked about that! lunch...i woulda been livid!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE.. write and tell them the problems with the ride! i truly believe the more people that complain (constructively) that maybe they'll actually put some suggestions into play!

heck.. even my bike shop guy was complaining about the way it's run! he wasn't happy at all! with the number of people that attend.. it should be a much better event! i mean i had fun and all.. but it wasn't perfect! although it was better than last year in some ways!

[ACG]

As in one of the other discussion boards, this was my first. I finished in around 7 hours, avg speed, well I'll check my bike when I get home. I could not believe the flats! I did not get one. But everyone in my group did. I also saw some dead jackrabbits. I felt that I was pretty slow the first 40 miles, but I picked up steam after that. Met a lot of nice people. Every SAG stop had plenty of goodies when I got there. Gave some people a cheap thrill by pouring water over my top several times. I was pretty grumpy the last 10 miles. We seemed to have to stop at every red light possible. Will definitely be there next year.

[caligurl]

tprevost.... for most organized rides... i ride my own pace.. so alone... he rides a few with me.. he picks which ones... he rode my first metric with me (tour of borrego)... but this year we each did our own ride... rode my first double metric with me (actually.. it was his first double metric too).. the next double metric he rode to the first sag with me.. then took off... hmmmmm he rode angeles crest with me.. it was a climbing century... i'm not sure how he picks in his head which ones to ride with me and which ones to go off on his own... he's riding the mardi gras century next weekend with me (sounds like a nice century.. they claim only 2200 climbing! but he's already warned me he's going to push me.... (but if he pushes too much.. i'll just back off and ride what i can do! lol!) i always tell him he's mean to push me.. but i know he's just trying to make me a better rider... we just have different goals! (i want to ride for fitness and to burn calories.. he wants to get faster and stronger!)

and don't decide again palm springs because of some of the reports.... do it and make your own decision! there were 8000 riders... and only a handful of us reporting! they wouldn't keep coming if they didn't really enjoy it on some level!

oh... and i try to start as early as i can... if it's a set time.. i leave when it starts.. if its an open time.. i leave at the earliest time! especially for climbing rides... i need all the time i can get!!!!!

[purepink]

Hi, I'm purepink aka Bikerchick's female friend. Yeah, I crashed. It was amazing how it happened so fast and so slow at the very same time. As I lay in the road a bit stunned, I realized that if the guy in the truck hadn't been paying attention, I would have been roadkill!! I was obviously a bit shaken by the whole incident and my shoulder really hurt. All I could think about was getting to the finish line. I wanted that 100 miles on my computer. Computer broke from the crash so I didn't even get that! All in all, I'm okay. Still a bit sore but very proud of my sheer determination to finish. It was a great day, my hubby did his first 55 after being off the bike for 6 months and I made my 100 even after a crash! I came home from work today to find bows on my pretty pink bike. Hubby had taken her in for a going over and she's all better now and ready for me to ride. That was a great Valentines Day present!

[tprevost]

Hi PurePink!

I am SO glad to hear that you are okay! I don't even know you and I was SO worried about you! How sweet of your DH to take care of your bike!

Hopefully I'll get to meet you and BikerChick68 (and everyone else too!)- or at least wave as you pass! Are you doing the same rides as she is? I had a great bike buddy up in NorCal but I moved to SoCal and she moved to OR and I just haven't found anyone here to ride with here yet... you are so lucky to have a great group to ride with!!!

Anyway, again, thank you for letting us know you are alright ... and I'm so glad the guy in the truck was watching!!!

Tracy

[bikerchick68]

Hey Pinky! So glad you posted...

very cool that the DH took care of the bike for you and put bows on it!!! What a guy!!! Were they able to replace that shifter cover? Any other damage? It didn't appear so...

Just so you all know... Pink's DH was not only off the bike for 6 months... but was only back ON the bike for a couple weeks... did a TON of riding for those 2 weeks to be ready to ride 55 miles! I told him he's in for it now... we know he can do 55... He said he was slower than us... LOL.. yeah, FOR NOW! That's gonna change sooooooon... we have plans for him... bwahahahhahaha!

Tracy... we will definitely have to plan a ride sometime soon... and btw, are there any bike shops near you? I met PurePink and her DH at my LBS... it's been absolutely wonderful for ME too... so much more fun to have friends to ride with than trying to train solo... if you have a shop where you get all your stuff let them know you're looking for other females to ride with!

[tprevost]

Thanks BikerChick68! I have been looking for local shops that maybe have local rides starting from them but it never occurred to me to actually mention it to the guys at the shops! Duhhhh..!

they took the full arm cast off today and put a short one on for another two weeks, then I'm done. My wrist was pretty much immoble (very little range of motion - now its casted back up again!) so I don't know how well I'll be able to ride once the cast is off. I have to have some PT to get range of motion back. I did ask if I could ride the 22 mile route of the tour de borrego (4 days after the cast comes off) on my Mtn bike (to reduce pressure on the arm) and he said I could - so now I'll hope for the best!

Don't worry BC68, I will DEFINATELY take you up on a bike ride, that's now one of my goals!

trac'