Kinnie, My prayers are with you and your father-in-law. Sorry you couldn't make the Red Cross ride in Rocky Mount. It was a good ride and the weather was good, but I do have a couple of recommendations that I believe would be improvements:
1. Their on site registration is very disorganized and uncoordinated. They could take some lessons from the Scotland Neck ride group. It took 20 or 30 minutes to complete registration in Rocky Mount compared to less than 5 minutes in Scotland Neck. Preferably they should have their waiver as part of the registration form rather than a second form. If they continue to have it as a second form, they should at least have the two forms together so you can complete all forms in one sitting. 2. The route turn arrows were very prominent and easy to see at most intersections, but some of the turns were almost missed due to the fact that there was only one arrow leading up to the turn and it was placed only a few feet before the turn. They need to have additional arrows about 100 yards before the turns, especially left turns. James Lamm ----- Original Message ----- From: Kinnie Pruden To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [COWs] Rocky Mt metric century Glad you enjoyed the event. They are already trying to think of ways to make improvements for next year. If you have any suggestions please pass them on. Sounds like making sure the motorcycles know the route, would be a good start. I'm sorry I was unable to join in the fun. "Grandpa" (father-in-law) is still battling. He is receiving a morphine "dose" every hour now. (Bone cancer.) I just have to trust God knows what He is doing. Prayers are appreciated. :) kp --- On Sun, 5/23/10, [email protected] wrote: From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [COWs] Rocky Mt metric century To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 8:01 AM Great ride and event. Provided krispy kreme doughnuts and biscuitville biscuits for breakfast, pizza for lunch, gatorade before and after, clean bathrooms and even a band post race. Good ride report Ronnie. My son would like me to add we saw two dead snakes on road too. Steve Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 20:48:11 To: <[email protected]> Subject: [COWs] Rocky Mt metric century Steve Thomas, James Lamm and I went to RM for the ride there. Steve and I did the metric, not sure what James did. We didn't see him at the start line for the metric folks. Anyway, the day started out what I thought was bad as my speed censor rubber band broke, thus no speed or distanc tracking. All I had was cadence & heart rate. Steve's speed sensor were on his stolen bike, so none there either. We started out with a fairly large group 16 or so total. We (Steve and I) just drafted along with them at whatever pace they were going. Eventually, by mile 20 or so, the main group started splitting apart, (by that time we had done a fair share of pulling ourselves). And then there were 5. The 5 of us completely dropped everyone else for the remainder of the ride. We were the first back to the start and when we asked Jeff (from RM, rides with Johnny)he said our average for the ride was 21.8. Perhaps not knowing your speed is a good thing sometimes. The deputy that escorted us the entire route cut us off about 8 miles early and offered to make it up so we took a slightly different route that made up about 4 or 5 of what he shorted us earlier. So we ended up with about 58 miles. Steve and I then came back to Wilson and rode another 28 from Starbucks at a slightly slower pace, bringing the total miles to about 86. Great day for riding. Congratulations to all those who competed in the BH triathlon. Steve, if I missed anything, feel free to fill in the gaps. Ronnie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CyclistsOfWilson-COWs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cyclistsofwilson-cows?hl=en.
