OC July 30th ride

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I'm coming! I'm coming!!!! I have a feeling I'm gonna be in pain cause I haven't ridden much ... but I'm game!

Brandy, I need to get directions to the start. I can't leave here until 6:45am so the further west, the more likely I'll be a tad late

Trac'

ps. with the whole train thing, it turns out it was a good thing I didn't go yesterday! Who was the other woman riding besides Ms. Pico???

[Brandy]

ps. with the whole train thing, it turns out it was a good thing I didn't go yesterday! Who was the other woman riding besides Ms. Pico???

Her name was Missy and voltman brought invited her and her dh. They are MS150 team leaders and she also teaches indoor cycling. I'm pretty sure that they'll be joining us on our ride next Sunday!

Oh...and I totally thought of how disastrous it would have been for you to be stuck in San Diego that late!

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OMG! I am SO gonna hold everyone up on Sunday! Oh well, I suppose that's how to get better huh?

Trac`

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This sounds like such a great ride!!

I'm thinking positive that I'll be able to join all of you on the 30th. Work could get in the way, so keep good thoughts for me that it won't!

While we're doing positive thinking, can we also manifest some cooler weather ?

Cheers,
Judy

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YEAH Judy!!!!!

It will be so great to see you again!!!

Tracy

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OMG! I am SO gonna hold everyone up on Sunday! Oh well, I suppose that's how to get better huh?

Trac`

Tracy:

I don't think you will be the last... pretty much with all the hills and the heat, that will be me. My only hope is I can catch you all on the downhills.

I haven't been doing all the long rides you guys have. This will be my longest ride all year. Yesterday I planned on doing my Club's 58 miler but I've had a cold all week, didn't feel all that well and well the humidity was already affecting me so I opted for the short ride - 40 miles going to Huntington Beach. I thought good a short, flat ride, I'll be fine but problem with flat - the speed picks up. I rode with 2 friends and our average speed to Golden West (down PCH) was 23.5 mph! I felt good until we hit GW then all of a sudden, I cracked! Big time. Made it to the coffee shop and sat and waited out some thunder and rain and took off back home. At this point, I was toast and it was a struggle to get back to my car. I haven't felt this bad I think ever on a ride. The humidity, heat and my cold did me in. I laid on the grass for 2 hours, drinking Gatorade and trying to get rid of my headache. I was very dyhrated. All I wanted to do was go home, take a shower and lay down in the air conditioning but nooooo.... the lightning struck a transformer and I had no electricity. It wasn't a good day for me.

Anyway, Sunday I plan on riding easy - just want to get through the mileage and stay on the bike. If it's hot, need to take it easy. Wish me luck!

[Brandy]

This was a tough weekend to ride Pam. For now the forecast for next weekend is calling for cooler temps, so I'm crossing my fingers that it sticks!

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Heya Pam!

I haven't ridden a lot of long rides either so we can hold everyone up together! I did the metric in Ventura (55 miles - a bit short) but since then, my longest ride has been 35 so you are definately not alone. I'm starting to think the really long stuff is just not my thing... I love the metrics but anything longer than that just doesn't sound fun. I think that the only way I'll want to go longer is at an organized ride (as opposed to me just trying to get in a training ride).

Brandy and Caligurl know this, but I've been sorta job hunting so my training time is more limited than it was. I do plan on doing a 25 miler either tomorrow or Wednesday (our A/C has crashed so I am NOT missing the technician - I'll be at their mercy) and maybe a few short hill repeats one day... its been 112 so there is a very small window for me... don't have childcare until 9am... so maybe an hour or two in the morning OR if DH is home, maybe an hour or so after the sun goes down a bit... I will just keep plugging away and get as much in as I can!

How 'bout this Pam... we'll hook bungies to each other and flip-flop our way up and down the hills! hee hee hee, sorry, that sounds pretty comical if you think about it

No worries, they'll wait for us

Trac'

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I'm starting to think the really long stuff is just not my thing... I love the metrics but anything longer than that just doesn't sound fun. I think that the only way I'll want to go longer is at an organized ride (as opposed to me just trying to get in a training ride).

tracy.... i've never done a non-organized century... cuz i just don't have the.... willpower? or whatever the word is.... i use the sag stops as my movitation and it makes it easier (easier?) for me... at least mentally! cool breeze is good cuz there are a lot of rest stops... so a lot of little interim motivators!

heck.... i set out on a ride around here and say i'm going to do 40.... and i'm bores and "done" after 20-25.... it really IS different doing it on your own rather than at an organized ride (and yes... even if you ride that organized ride "by yourself"... cuz you still have the little minit goals of the sag stops!

however... that said... if YOU don't want to do a century... then don't... cuz riding one is a LOT mental... and if you aren't prepared mentally... then you probably won't do it... (for me... i have NO desire to do a double century... even though i've had people badgering me to do them... i don't doubt i could.. just like i have NO doubt whatsoever that you could complete a century... but i don't WANT to do one... so that means i most likely wouldn't finish... MENTAL!)

but please don't write off the century yet.. you have almost a month to change your mind and ride.. you's all are worrying way too early about cool breeze!


p.s. brandy has permanently banished me from all future TE rides! shes a big ole MEANIE!

[Brandy]

p.s. brandy has permanently banished me from all future TE rides! shes a big ole MEANIE!

That's me!

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tracy.... i've never done a non-organized century... cuz i just don't have the.... willpower? or whatever the word is.... i use the sag stops as my movitation and it makes it easier (easier?) for me... at least mentally! cool breeze is good cuz there are a lot of rest stops... so a lot of little interim motivators!

heck.... i set out on a ride around here and say i'm going to do 40.... and i'm bores and "done" after 20-25.... it really IS different doing it on your own rather than at an organized ride (and yes... even if you ride that organized ride "by yourself"... cuz you still have the little minit goals of the sag stops!

however... that said... if YOU don't want to do a century... then don't... cuz riding one is a LOT mental... and if you aren't prepared mentally... then you probably won't do it... (for me... i have NO desire to do a double century... even though i've had people badgering me to do them... i don't doubt i could.. just like i have NO doubt whatsoever that you could complete a century... but i don't WANT to do one... so that means i most likely wouldn't finish... MENTAL!)

but please don't write off the century yet.. you have almost a month to change your mind and ride.. you's all are worrying way too early about cool breeze!


p.s. brandy has permanently banished me from all future TE rides! shes a big ole MEANIE!

That's why you're da bomb CG! You are so good at 'getting' what I mean! I am not writing off the century at all; I've got to do at least one and it would probably be really good to do it when we all have each other as support! I am pretty sure I could do one even now under good circumstances. But, I'm exactly like you... those longer training rides are really tough for me. I do like that one w/the hills that I talk about though because once you get to the turn around point there isn't really a choice about finishing it up

I'll be doing the ride on Sunday then if the weather cools off or I can bribe DH into watching the wild things so I can leave early one time I'll probably hit that 40 miler again too; other than that, its gonna be 10-35 milers.

Trac'

ps. I'm over-riding you Brandy; Caligurl can never be banished!

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That's me!

troublemaker....

[caligurl]

ps. I'm over-riding you Brandy; Caligurl can never be banished!

neener... neener... NEENER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brandy]

troublemaker....

I'm not really a mean girl. I just play one on the internet.

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I'm not really a mean girl. I just play one on the internet.

.... that's not what Tiffanie said....

hee hee hee