Seagull Century

[Zen]

Mad, if they've scared you away from the Seagull there's always the Civil War Century.
I'll be there and I'm pretty sure DB and 7 will too

[HillSlugger]

I'm thinking about this, too, but not sure which route I'd do (probably the 50).

[ny biker]

My personal goal is to break a 5 hour ride time. I'll be sucking a lot of wheels to do that.

I was thrilled to finish in 7 hours the first time I did it, so I bow to your five hours.

Re: the Civil War century, I've done that a couple of times (metric once and 50-miler once) so I was thinking of trying out the Indian Head century this year which takes place the same day. But I have a friend who's coming from Ireland to do the Civil War ride so it looks like I'll be up there after all. We'll be looking forward to those tomato sandwiches.

[7rider]

Mad, if they've scared you away from the Seagull there's always the Civil War Century.
I'll be there and I'm pretty sure DB and 7 will too

Arrrggghhh...
Just realized that the CWC is the weekend before my mom's 80th birthday, and the sibs up in CT are planning a big family bash for her .... likely that weekend. We may not be able to do the CWC.

[Kalidurga]

Mad, if they've scared you away from the Seagull there's always the Civil War Century.

Or, there's the Tour du Port up in Baltimore, which I'll be doing...

[Zen]

So many rides, so little summer

[madscot13]

Mad, if they've scared you away from the Seagull there's always the Civil War Century.
I'll be there and I'm pretty sure DB and 7 will too

I will have to work in getting a lot more miles in before I think of doing the Civil War Century. I will also have to work on my climbing from the looks of it. The metric looks like an option.

Is there a way I can train for hills without actually doing hills?

Also they can't scare me from Seagull. I've signed up for it as a Team in Training member!

[Blueberry]

Is there a way I can train for hills without actually doing hills?

Hills are (obviously) the best training. ECT on the trainer is an option (one of the climbing DVD's). Headwinds and intervals also help.

CA

[madscot13]

Nah I know the best way to get better on hills. I just can't think of 6.5k ft of climbing around me.

[ny biker]

The metric and 50-mile versions of the CWC have hills but are not that bad. It's the longer versions that start off by heading west into the mountains, so they have the harder climbs.

[carolync]

Hi gals!

I'm doing the Seagull with TNT too. Let's pray for good weather... heard last year was good, but over here on the shore, there will always be wind.

A TNT coach told us there is not such thing as a tailwind at the Seagull.

Carolyn

[divingbiker]

Nah I know the best way to get better on hills. I just can't think of 6.5k ft of climbing around me.

Just go over to 13th St & Florida Ave NW and do hill repeats there. That'll get you into hill-climbing shape!

[madscot13]

thanks! I wonder when the best time of the day would be to do those? I have a hill on my route. i wonder how many times I would have to do it to get 7400 ft of climbing in?

[divingbiker]

thanks! I wonder when the best time of the day would be to do those? I have a hill on my route. i wonder how many times I would have to do it to get 7400 ft of climbing in?

Any time other than rush hour is probably fine. That hill is only .13 mile long with 105 feet of climbing (if my calculation is right, that's about 15%), so you'd have to do it a lot to reach 7400 feet!

[madscot13]

That hill is only .13 mile long with 105 feet of climbing (if my calculation is right, that's about 15%), so you'd have to do it a lot to reach 7400 feet!

Can't I just ride my bike up the Exorcist steps a few times? they are just around the corner.