grand tour century challenge ride report!

[caligurl]

Congratulations!!! 122 miles? You rock! Looks like a gorgeous ride! Thanks for sharing the pictures!

Emily

thank you emily! look at you in your avatar on your mtb! YOU GO GIRL!

[bikerchick68]

oh man... you were having SO much more fun than we were!

sounds like it was a great ride... did this go right by Magoo Rock? Looks like the same stretch of highway there by the ocean... there's always a TON of motorcyclists out there making noise... sigh... of course, riding with Kahuna, no one messes with me He's not especially SMALL! LOL

We got the entire interior of the house painted... I was at Starbucks at 6:30am Sat and painting by 7am! Saw some cyclists out and about as we drove to the new house and wondered if they were doing the double but no numbers or bands that we could see... I was REALLY glad it never got too hot... here at home the heat moved in and it was over 100 the whole weekend... I woulda DIED trying to paint in that kinda heat...

anyway, tile is ripped out, carpet gone, inside painted and BKD is now in the process of putting in wood flooring... no riding for me, but I'm whooped anyway!

Brie is beautiful! And MP, I had to laugh about greeting the sheep... from experience I can tell you that in Ireland, sheep do not respond to "Move!, shoo, git" or anything else you can think to yell... so if you ride there, prepare to swerve around the sheep sized obstacles all over the road! LOL

[redhot3368]

Contratulations Caligurl!!!!
That IS AWESOME!!
You are an inspiration!!

Karen

P.S. I LOVED climbing Stunt, but the downhill on Piuma was SCARY!!
It was SOOO Foggy, I could hardly see....major white knuckling going on!!

[caligurl]

oh i know what you mean! the day hubby did that ride.... the descent... right near a little park off to the right on one of the hairpins.... the wind and clouds and fog/mist were SWIRLING visciously! "I" thought it was way cool.... he didn't like it much!

i don't think i'd dislike stunt so much... if it weren't at the 90+ mile mark of mulholland challenge!

[Trekhawk]

Congratulations on a great ride. I remember in a past thread someone said you climbed like a mountain goat and I would have to agree. You really are a mountain goat - that is a lot of climbing - my legs are tired just thinking about it.

Love the pics.
You look so good - hmm you could at least look a little tired.

Trek-who looks like death at the end of a ride (without 8000 feet of climbing)-hawk

[tprevost]

sorry to hijack your thread Cali but...

Trekhawk, where have you been??? Haven't 'seen' you on the boards much lately?????

Trac'

[Trekhawk]

sorry to hijack your thread Cali but...

Trekhawk, where have you been??? Haven't 'seen' you on the boards much lately?????

Trac'

School holidays mate (you know how it is) - 3 boys at home sure keep you busy.

[emily_in_nc]

thank you emily! look at you in your avatar on your mtb! YOU GO GIRL!

Thanks! Just wait til I get a picture of me on my NEW mountain bike!

(end thread hijack...)

Emily