Fantastic! Are u up for a lunchtime recovery ride on Monday? For anyone interested, I'd like to do 2 hrs NS and flat, tomorrow starting at noon. (weather permitting)
Let me know if you can join and we'll set a meeting place. Have a great evening, kp Sent from my iPad On Apr 22, 2012, at 10:23 AM, "Tim & Susan" <[email protected]> wrote: > http://connect.garmin.com/activity/170562884 > > Morrisville 300K > > My buddy Geof and I had discussed knocking down this ride sub 12 hours as a > little training effort for our upcoming 1200K. Weather was perfect for the > challenge which was a little odd. I cruised out at 7:00am with 25 other > crazy riders. A pack of ~15 riders stayed together until the long climb away > from Jordan Lake which left only 8 of us up front as we cruised on to Siler > City for the first 100K. From there to Seagrove offered even more hills to > climb plus an added headwind that kicked up so I eventually had to let the > pack go. I rejoined them at the turn-around, mile 95. I finally caught my > second wind and made the group chase me back to Siler City. I played a > little more conservative after that as the temps were rising and still some > big climbs up ahead. 2 riders left out of Snow Camp (mile 138) before me. I > had nothing for them. I had my sub 12 hour ride in the bag so my plan now > was just to solo the last 50 miles at an easy pace. My friend Mary quickly > runs me down and wants some company to finish out the ride as her husband Tom > is one of the two out front. We had a 20 min. rain shower which was actually > nice as it was a bit warm. We were the 3rd and 4th riders back to > Morrisville arriving at 6:25pm. Geof arrives just a few minutes later having > flatted earlier in the ride. 11 hours and 25 minutes to cover 190 miles and > over 9000 feet of climbs. Not bad for the fat guy. The original group of 8 > all cruised in under 12 hours, with most of us setting PR’s. We then head > over to a little Mexican restaurant for reloading. I’ve had crappy weather > all year doing these long rides, finally got a really nice day. 400K in 3 > weeks, need to loose a few more pounds. > -- > 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.
