.... ...dude, ronnie was w/women who volunteered to help the ride(rs). I think he deserves at least a +3mph advantage. ...net +2mph
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Tim & Susan <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome! > What!!! Hotel? > 1 mph average deduct for not camping! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: "Tim & Susan" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 4:31 PM > Subject: Re: [COWs] Saturdat ride report > > > The MS group had 2300+ riders (imagine that paceline). Absolutely perfect > day for riding. The planets were in alignment (that's for you Tim L). Saw > new Bob (Dillon) and Ken Keeter from the RM group. In fact we are all in the > same hotel. Anyway everyone was looking forward to the ride today. Lined up > at the 20+ sign and off we went. Crossed the bridge and manuevered (sic) > around the slower riders from the top team that lead out first. Once on 55 > it was on and the hammer dropped. A group of about 50 of us were cruising at > around 24 or so. That pace continued until I decided to stop at the 2nd rest > stop (my team was manning & Colleen was there) and lost the lead group. > Anyway, hooked up with a guy (Steve) who road with me last year and we set > off at 22 or so trying to get up with a group around that pace. Would find > one, stick with them for a while, then they would slow down. Legs were > feeling great so we just passed them and moved on. We got separated in > another group and I heard a pop from behind. Looked back but couldn't see > anything so continued on. 1/2 or so later looked back, no Steve. I then > concluded he must have flatted. As we didn't have any formal agreement to > stick together, I continued on. Visted Colleen again and from that point on > I was solo for the most part. Still maintaining 21 - 23 pacing. At mile 70 > or so, I passed Doc's friend from Greenville (Dionne is her name), then > passed here twice more (it was loop or was it deja vue?). Anyway, legs were > still feeling great and my average at that point was 21+ with only about 20 > miles to go. Fortunatley most of the stoplights cooperated and didn't > present problems for the folks approaching. I'll try to attach pics showing > stats. Looking forward to recovery drinks and pasta for dinner. Doing it all > over again tomorrow, another century, this time through Oriental. > > Other pics of the event can be found on my Facebook page. > > 'Till then... > > ---- Tim & Susan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The BC had 7 riders, Pete, James, Dave W., Steve B., Jonathan, Susan and I >> cruised to Samaria then on to Nashville for 54 miles and a few hills. Saw >> the others headed out Lake Wilson Rd. as we rode by. Great day to be on a >> bike. No cars, no dogs, no wind and no 90+ degree heat. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Davis" <[email protected]> >> To: "COWS" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 1:41 PM >> Subject: [COWs] Saturdat ride report >> >> >> > >> > Group of six Bob, Wally, Dale, Vino, Chris and I did 52 around the >> > southern Saratoga, Stantonsburg route. >> > Saw the BK group headed out hwy 58, looked like they had a good turn out >> > as well. >> > Bridge is out on Woodbridge rd, since no one had a mtn bike to jump the >> > creek we had to backtrack. >> > Wally took us through some nice new roads and we found some rollers that >> > no one new existed in that part of the >> > county. Good consistant pace around 21, monster pull by Chris, who had >> > enough left to take the sprint on downing St. >> > Nick did the 8:00 ride(?), secret high intensity training. >> > Sundaty 2:00 OSB. >> > >> > >> > -- > 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]<cyclistsofwilson-cows%[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]<cyclistsofwilson-cows%[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]<cyclistsofwilson-cows%[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]<cyclistsofwilson-cows%[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. 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